TRAINING AND RESEARCH PROJECT (cycle 40)

Doctoral Credits: 180

Doctoral Credits (DC) measure the workload required of the PhD student in research, training, and teaching activities to obtain the degree. Each DC is equivalent to 25 hours of work, and the PhD student must earn 60 DC per year. Each program distributes the total number of DCs between research activities, training, and teaching, ensuring that research activities account for between 65% and 80% of the total.

PhD students, in agreement with their supervisors and co-supervisors, flexibly define their specific training and research paths, selecting the activities to undertake, both in type and quantity, in compliance with the constraints set by the board for each activity and academic year.

The acquisition of DCs is verified during the annual evaluation process, following the rules and procedures set by the program. DCs will be applied  experimentally starting from the 40th cycle. The regulations related to DCs for each program will be published on the program’s website before the start of the academic year.

Research Activities: The activity carried out by the PhD students is very varied and diversified, as is the scientific field in which they operate. Society as a whole is investigated over a long period of time through the most varied types of sources in its institutional, political, economic, social, geographical, religious, cultural and anthropological components. In this sense, bibliographic research is accompanied by excavation and archaeological research in the field with the acquisition and testing of the necessary practical skills, advanced archive research, analysis of material sources, transcription and edition of unpublished documents, development of interpretative models of the sources themselves, use of cartographic tools and territorial analysis. The research activities of the PhD students aim at the publication of monographs, articles, research support tools, such as the creation of specific databases, websites, data interpretation models, cartographic processing.

The PhD students are required to prepare a scientific contribution to be subjected to peer review for publication (second year); a second proposal for a journal article/conference contribution or other form of scientific product for publication and final exam (third year).

Research training activities include the following: attendance of general seminar cycles; attendance of specific seminars; meetings with authors of books (cycles “Classici e non solo” ), participation in national and international excavation campaigns; training relating to digitalisation, code scanning, data entry into complex servers, data processing, cartographic processing, skills on methods of conservation, protection and valorisation of the territory and the historical-artistic heritage, development of competitive research projects in the humanistic field international, national and regional levels; specific training in academic writing.

Of particular relevance in terms of transversality and specificity is the seminar in "Project design for research in social sciences and humanities" which has the general objective of providing knowledge and tools to PhD students, who do not yet have experience on the project design front, to draw up competitive research projects aimed at obtaining funding for their research activities (present and future).

Supplementary Teaching and Tutoring Activities Performed by PhD Students:
The faculty board of the PhD program in “Historical and Archaeological Sciences. Memory, Civilization, and Heritage” assigns 10 hours per academic year of supplementary teaching activities for PhD students to perform for first and second-cycle students of the Department of History, Cultures, and Civilizations or other related departments, based on the guidance of their supervisors and co-supervisors and the availability of course instructors whose subjects closely align with the expertise of the individual PhD students. PhD students are also expected to assist with first and second-cycle theses,  potentially participating in the final discussions as co-advisors.

Since one doctoral credit for supplementary teaching corresponds to 5 hours of classroom teaching, PhD students are expected to engage in a maximum of 6 doctoral credits (equivalent to 30 hours of classroom supplementary teaching) over the three-year period of the doctoral program.