Monitoring of the PhD student

The doctoral programme follows the guidelines of article 11, Supervision and monitoring of doctoral students, of Royal Decree 99/2011 and of the Regulations of Official Doctoral Studies of the ULL, which in its articles 14, 15 and 16 describes the composition of the Academic Committee of the doctoral programme and its functions, which include the supervision and monitoring of doctoral students during their doctoral training.

The Academic Committee of the doctoral program will be composed of six professors, two for each of the three lines of research of the program.

One of them will act as Academic Coordinator, fulfilling the requirements established in the Royal Decree and in the ULL Regulations, and another will act as secretary of the Academic Committee. Likewise, said Regulations in their article 23, describe the procedures provided by the doctoral program for the supervision and monitoring of the doctoral student during their doctoral training. In addition to the assignment of the tutor, the deadlines established for said assignment, as well as the procedure established for the modification of this assignment, according to Article 10 of the ULL Regulations, points 5, 6 and 7, the Academic Committee of the doctoral program will seek an adequate and proportionate distribution of the doctoral students between the lines of research that make up the doctoral program and the directors, establishing a series of limitations when it comes to avoiding the accumulation of work under the same line and direction, the excessive lengthening of the completion of the doctoral thesis for reasons beyond the control of the student, or the lack of publications based on the results of the thesis.

In particular, once the student has been admitted, the Academic Committee will assign him/her a tutor from among the professors who are part of the program, taking into account the student's academic training and his/her preferences regarding lines of work. Within a period of no more than one month from enrollment, the Committee will assign the student a thesis director who may or may not coincide with the tutor and who will be a professor from the doctoral program.

Every PhD thesis registered in the programme must have a Director or Co-director. In all cases, the research activity of the director or co-director must be included within one of the lines of research of the Doctoral Programme.

With regard to the procedure used to control the activity record of each doctoral student and certify their data, the programme proposes, depending on the training activity in question, that it be the Tutor or the Director, or both, who collect this information and send it to the Academic Committee of the programme for certification, since according to article 15, section e) of the ULL Regulations, it is said committee that has the function of annually evaluating the Research Plan and the Training Plan contained in the activity document of each student in the programme within the established time periods. Likewise, said committee must approve the forecast of stays of doctoral students in other centres, national and international, co-tutorships and European mentions, according to the Procedure to request the International Mention in a doctoral thesis at the ULL.