Phd structure

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.

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.

Teaching activities

The Doctorate in Cultural and Environmental Heritage has a metadisciplinary approach, with the mode of research focused on the object of study rather than on individual disciplinary perspectives and a methodology that facilitates close collaboration between humanistic, scientific, legal and social disciplines, conducted within shared structures and laboratories.

At the beginning of each academic year, the Teaching Board will define and approve the compulsory multidisciplinary training for each doctorate cycle. The compulsory study, organised in the form of lecture cycles, meetings or seminars, is considered passed with at least 70 percent attendance.

Successful completion of the compulsory study is a requirement for admission to the following course year. Any postgraduate student who cannot, for justified and proven reasons, attend a compulsory course during the planned year is required to make it up within the three years of the PhD programme.

Doctoral credits

Doctoral credits (DCs) represent a measure of the workload required to complete the training and research activities in the PhD programme. Each year, you must earn (number to be inserted) DCs, with each DC corresponding to (number to be inserted) hours of work. 

The PhD programme requires the acquisition of a total of 180 DCs, divided as follows: 

• Research activities: they represent 78% of the total workload required and the acquisition of  140 DCs
• Research and teaching training activities: they represent 22%  of the workload required and the acquisition of 40 DCs

Research activities

The specific research activities and seminars are organised around the two curricula. The first, Cultural and Environmental Heritage - Memory, Protection and Rights, explores cultural memory, the relationship between society and the environment, and the management of public assets. The second, Science and Technologies for Cultural Heritage (STECH), is dedicated to technologies used in the conservation of material heritage, and is training for roles such as the conservation scientist, recognised by the Italian Ministry of Culture (MIC).

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Expected research results and products

The PhD programme is aimed at providing researchers and qualified experts or 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.