Teaching
Activities to be carried out by Doctoral candidates
Curriculum Cultural and Environmental Heritage
- Cultural heritage (ranging from religious background to musical heritage, from collectionism to appreciacion and preservation of historic-artistic, archival, and audio-visual heritage); history and culture of Mediterranean and Western Asian civilizations; public history, with a specific orientation towards general public dissemination; conservation of ehtno-cultural heritage and diversity.
- Environment, objects, and rights; diagnostic analysis of monumental and portable artefact of historical interest; musealisation through digital and virtual modelling; promoting the appreciacion and use of bio-environmental goods as common goods; legal and regulatory consequences
- Environment and landscape, cities and architecture: tools for the analysis and conservation of the environment, biological, anthropological and archaeological heritage, urban settings, industrial archaeology, restoration of historical architecture, the historical relationship between urban areas and their territory, sustainable development of tourism, fruition of historic towns. Governance and management of common goods; risk assessment and risk management, efficient use of resources, definition and quantification of ecosystemic service value, assessment of natural resource consumption and of the production of solid, liquid, and gaseouse waste.
Curriculum Science and Technologies for Cultural Heritage
Focuses on technologies related to conservation and restoration of cultural heritage by joining techniques for material characterisation, assessment of the state of conservation, synthesis of new materials, advanced diagnostics, ICT, and documenting/monitoring material cultural heritage.
Students will be part of pure/applied experimental research projects in which they will take advantange of collaborations with both public and private international research institutions.
Research training activities compliant with the Doctoral programme's learning outcomes
The program aims to provide high-level knowledge across a number of specific topics, as well as multidisciplinary skills for the development of advanced theory and methods for conservation, preservation, and management of common goods from an environmental, cultural, and juridical perspective.
Both curricula will involve:
- 1st and 2nd Year: Three interdisciplinary seminars attended by all students and focused on topics bridging environmental, cultural, and juridical themes - planned by the Doctoral Committee and held by world-renowned scholars, University of Bologna staff, and renown professionals from relevant Institutions and Enterprises. Three additional seminars specifically centered on the chosen research topics that can be attended at other Campuses or Universities, provided approval is granted by the Doctoral Committee.
- 3rd year: Advanced Summer/Winter School (alternative to international mobility and specializing professional internships conducted in the triennium) to complete the training activities. A course focused on national and international funding schemes, international mobility schemes, project writing and general research skills.
Further learning activities through the program: English; orientation on research work (academy, innovation).
Annual monitoring of the progress of each doctoral candidate is planned through presentations at the end of each year at the presence of supervisors, co-supervisors and the Doctoral Committee.
The Doctoral Committee has established a Commission for the planning and design of teaching content, which will be offered from the academic year 2024-25.
Expected research results and products
The PhD programme is aimed at providing researchers and qualified experts/professionals with the cross-disciplinary training necessary to conjugate complementary sources of knowledge and to develop an advanced body of method and theory for conservation, protection, and management of our heritage. This result will entail at the same time cultural, environmental, and legal perspectives, and will benefit from an adequate historical contextualisation, as well as from the acquisition of effective skills for valorization and dissemination to the broad public.
Doctors of Philosophy are expected to:
- handle complex problem-solving tasks within both public institutions and private enterprises or corporations;
- propose new management and fruition strategies at different operational scales. During the three-year PhD programme, the candidate is also expected to publish papers, monograph, and present results at national and international conferences.