How to get the PhD title

PhD Students:

Upload a single file on https://dottorandi.unibo.it/ including:

1. The Research project for the entire PhD course (max 3000 words, references excluded).

The structure is the following:

• Title page (including: University, Department, title of the PhD program, title of the project, name of the PhD student, name of supervisor and co-supervisor, number of words)
• Introduction (provide a brief description of the psychological phenomenon addressed, and a brief outline of the project)
• Theoretical background (you can articulate this section into paragraphs)
• Research question addressed and aims
• Description of studies (for each of them you need to report hypotheses, methods, and plan of analysis).
• Expected results
• Theoretical and applied implications of the expected results
• Plan of activities including those already accomplished.

! Note: The number of words should be indicated on the title page. It is mandatory to respect the word limit. 

2. Report of the scientific activity of the current academic year (use the template Report of scientific activity). 

3. Period abroad draft plan (use the template Period_abroad)

Supervisors are required to: 

Suggest 2 reviewers by filling the form online as indicated by PhD Coordinator

Send by email to both the PhD coordinator (mariagrazia.benassi@unibo.it) and the Vice-coordinator (raffaella.nori@unibo.it) [Email object "PhD documents for admission to the 2nd year"]:

1.  the Research Project to be sent to the reviewers by PhD Coordinator (Name of the file "ResearchProject_Surname of the PhDstudent")
2.  the Evaluation of the work done by the student during the first year (maximum 1 page in English). The evaluation must be signed by all tutors, and the tutors must specify whether they are in favor of the PhD student's admission to the next year. (Name the file “Evaluation_Surname of the PhD student”)

Deadline: September 7, 2026

Students of the Ist year will give a presentation of their research in the PhD day. For the 41 Cycle, the PhD day will be held in October,  15.

Each student will have 10 minutes to present the PhD project, followed by a brief Q&A session. All the information about the PhD Day will be published soon.

Students of the II° year are invited to attend the PhD day, in which their colleagues of the I° year will present their projects. The PhD day will be held the 15th of October. 

PhD students are required to send by email to the PhD coordinator (mariagrazia.benassi@unibo.it) and the Vice-coordinator (raffaella.nori@unibo.it) [Email object "PhD documents for admission to the Final Exam"]:

Research report (max 3000 words, references excluded) consisting of a description of the studies accomplished during the PhD course (i.e., brief outline of the PhD thesis). The number of words should be indicated on the title page. The title page must include: University, Department, title of the PhD program, title of the project, name of the PhD student, name of supervisor and co-supervisor, number of words. It is mandatory to respect the word limit. Name the file “Research report_Surname PhD student”

Report of the scientific activity of the entire PhD period (using the template "Report of scientific activitiy"). Name the file. “Report of the scientific activity_Surname PhD student”.

PhD students are required to have at least one article accepted for publication in a scientific journal (indexed in Scopus or Web of Science) and at least an additional one submitted for publication. Provide proof for each of them by sending by email to the PhD Coordinator:

• The editorial pdf of the final version of the accepted article
• The editorial pdf of the submitted article.

Only articles included in the PhD dissertation should be sent. In the case in which no articles included in the dissertation have been accepted yet, the PhD student is required to send an accepted article related to the topic of the dissertation. 

!!!! The Research Report and the Report of scientific activity must be uploaded as a single document to https://dottorandi.unibo.it/

The PhD Supervisors are required to: 

1. Suggest 4 thesis reviewers by filling the form online as indicated by PhD Coordinator
2. Send by email to both the PhD coordinator (mariagrazia.benassi@unibo.it) and the Vice-coordinator (raffaella.nori@unibo.it) [Email object "PhD documents for admission to the Final Exam"]:

•  the Evaluation of the work done by the student during the three years, with focus on the third year (maximum 1 page in English). The evaluation must be signed by all tutors, and the tutors must specify whether they are in favor of the PhD student's admission to the final exam. (Name the file “Evaluation_Surname of the PhD student”)

Deadline: September 7, 2026

Students of the 3rd year are invited to attend the PhD day, in which their colleagues of the 1st year will present their projects. The PhD day will be held on the 15th of October.