Phd structure

Activities to be carried out by Doctoral candidates

PhD students will have to follow a training programme, organized according to the following model:

1. Attend the courses that will be delivered ad hoc as lessons (disciplinary and multidisciplinary training)
2. Attend seminars coordinated by the College members (disciplinary and multidisciplinary training)
3. Attend practical laboratories (disciplinary and multidisciplinary training)
4. Attend some courses in other higher education institutions (e.g. LM degree courses inside or outside Unibo), which will be agreed with the tutor and which will be useful in filling the initial educational gaps (disciplinary and multidisciplinary training) 
5. Attend courses to learn transversal skills, delivered by the PhD programme or by Unibo (soft skills)
6. Attend extra-curricular training activities, in Italy or abroad, such as workshops, advanced training schools, Summer or Winter Schools, symposia, conferences and cultural initiatives related to the topics of the PhD programme and in line with their research projec (extra-curricular training)
7. Participate in at least one national or international conference, seminar or other cultural initiative as speaker (dissemination)
8. Undertake a research stay abroad, lasting at least 3 months, in an institution agreed with the supervisor (compulsory research abroad)

Optionally, PhD students will also be required to:

• Carry out teaching support and tutoring activities for BA and MA students (supplementary teaching and training)
• Participate in the activities of research centers in which the professors of the Course are involved (equivalent to laboratories and, consequently, to discipline-specific and multidisciplinary learning)
• Write scientific papers over the three-year period, preferably as articles in conference proceedings or in Class A journals with respect to the scientific field of reference (research)
• Carry out an activity, in the form of an internship, in one of the companies identified by the Course  (equivalent to extra-curricular training activities)

The activities will be organized in order to guarantee knowledge and skills necessary to manage the huge domain of tangible and intangible cultural heritage, in addition to actions aimed at acquiring the necessary critical awareness of the "workflow" of digital systems, or also the "lifecycle" of heritage objects (acquisition or capture, creation, enrichment, analysis, interpretation, conservation, dissemination).

Expected research results and products

Doctoral students will be required to present the results of their work each year to the Course, during a joint meeting of the Course and the Didactic Commission. PhD students will also be encouraged to organize internal seminars to share projects, research methods, and potential outputs.

The final work of the PhD students will consist in writing a thesis, in Italian or in English, preferably of experimental nature and which can also foresee practical implications - such as modeling, development, implementation or prototyping of environments, tools, models, architectures or applications. 

Doctoral credits

Doctoral Credits (CD) are a measure of the workload required to complete the training and research activities included in the PhD programme. Each CD corresponds to 25 hours of work.

The PhD programme requires a total of 180 Doctoral Credits (CD), distributed as follows:

• Research activities: account for 78% of the total workload and correspond to 140 CD.

• Research and teaching training activities: account for 22% of the total workload and correspond to 40 CD.

For more information on how Doctoral Credits are distributed across the various research and teaching training activities, please visit the PhD Programme Structure.