The first edition of the Conference of Dissemination of Doctoral Theses of the University of Valencia, convened to present the research of the PhD students in the academic institution, will be held on Friday 18 of January at the Auditorium Joan Plaça of the Botanical Garden. Each of the 21 theses selected will be defended in 3 minutes and the examining board will award that same day at 2:15 p.m. the three prizes planned: a stay at Harvard University valued at € 2,000, and two awards of € 500 and € 300.

The session has been organised by the Doctoral School and the Scientific Culture and Innovation Unit of the University of Valencia and with the collaboration of Polibienestar. The I Conference of Dissemination of Doctoral Theses will be opened at 09:30 a.m. by the Rector of the University, Mavi Mestre; and the director of the Doctoral School, José Vicente Bagán.

At the act, Pere Estupinyà, scientific communicator and writer, and Martí Domínguez, head of scientific magazine Mètode, will deliver the lectures “De l’acadèmia a la comunicació científica: una experiència professional” (9.45 a.m) and “El repte de divulgar” (1:30 p.m.).

The dissemination communication of doctoral theses in three minutes will begin at 10:30 a.m., with the exhibition of the first 9 works. After a break, at 12 noon, the remaining twelve theses will be exposed.

The examining board is formed by José Vicente Bagán; the researcher from the Language Theory and Communication Sciences Department Bejamín Marín; Carme Agustí, researcher of the Department of Cell Biology, Functional Biology and Physical Anthropology; Lucía Sapiña, Ph.D. student at the University; and Pere Estupinyà.

The criteria for the evaluation of the best works are the content of the exhibition (interest of the investigation, explanation clarity of the objectives and methodology, 4 points); creativity and originality in the form of speech (structure, intonation, speaking speed, visual contact with the public, with up to 3 points) and the use of simple language, correct use of syntax and non-sexist language (3 points).

One hundred and thirty participants

The I Conference of Dissemination of Doctoral Theses of the University of Valencia has had the initial participation of 81 women and 50 men, 131 works in total, of which 21 have been selected for the exhibition this Friday. The abstracts of the 131 dissertations presented correspond to the following areas: Health Sciences (35), Social Sciences (35), Humanities (31), and Basic Sciences and Engineering (30).

Regarding the language in which the candidatures were initially presented, 12 have done it in English, 19 in Catalan and 100 in Spanish. Of the works, in Health 26 they were made by women and 9, by men; in Socials 22 women and 13 men have participated; 20 women and 11 men, in Humanities; and in the block of Basic Sciences and Engineering, 13 abstracts were made by women and 17 by men.

To be able to participate, one had to be enrolled in any doctoral program of the University of Valencia, at least in the second annuity, to have the enrollment active, not having defended the thesis on the former date of the celebration of the conference (October 18, 2018), and to have the approval of the directors of the investigation.

List of the selected people, by order of intervention, that will participate in person in the I Conference of Dissemination of Doctoral Theses: http://ir.uv.es/LgV74KA