Thesis
The Thesis will have to be directed for a doctor with permanent or temporary entail with the coordinating department / institute of the doctorate program (in case of treating itself about a program of interdepartmental or interuniversity doctorate it will be able to be linked by any of the departments / institutes that take part in the program). Any other doctor will be able to be the previous director of thesis agreement of the Doctorate Commission.
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The department responsible for the doctorate program will arbitrate the mechanisms of authorization and appointment of the thesis director.
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In case the director does not belong to the structural unit responsible for the program, the coordinator will name a thesis tutor that, necessarily he will have to be a teacher doctor member of the department / institute.
- They must be enrolled for the research stage of a doctoral programme at the UPC and at the partner university.
- They must submit a request for joint doctoral thesis supervision and receive approval from the Academic Committee of the doctoral degree.
- Authorisation must be given by the General Secretary of the UPC for signature of the joint supervision agreement.
- The specific joint supervision agreement must be signed by the UPC and the partner university, respecting current regulations governing the thesis defence.
- Students must undertake a stay at each of the participating universities, the duration of which will be defined in the agreement.
For further information, consult the regulations on the signing of agreements linked to doctoral studies at the UPC.
Students who wish to submit the doctoral thesis as a collection of published articles must receive prior authorisation from the Doctoral Studies Committee of the UPC.
The requirements and administrative procedures for submitting the thesis as a collection of published articles can be consulted in the corresponding section on doctoral theses.
If you want to submit the thesis as a collection of published articles you must apply for it before the process of thesis deposit. It takes 15 days from your request to the approval (or not) from the Doctoral Committee.
Students who would like the International Doctorate certification to be displayed on their doctoral degree certificate must spend a period of study or research of at least three months at a higher education institution or research centre outside Spain.
The period of study or research must be approved by the thesis supervisor and authorised by the Academic Committee of the doctoral programme. Students must obtain a certificate from the director(s) of the research group, institution or institutions in question and submit the original, complete with institutional stamp, for validation by the UPC. The details of the period of study or research spent abroad will be included in the doctoral training log.
The external examiner appointment proposal must include a PhD holder from a higher education institution or research centre outside Spain. This examiner cannot be the supervisor of the period of study or research.
Writing of the thesis, assessment of the thesis prior to reading and defence, and the composition of the examination panel must comply with a series of specific requirements explained in the thesis reading procedure.
At least part of the thesis, as well the abstract and conclusions, must be written and submitted in one of the languages commonly used for scientific communication in the area of knowledge in question. This language may not be any of the official languages of Spain. This rule shall not apply if the student's time abroad takes place in a Spanish-speaking country, the reports are in Spanish and the experts are Spanish speakers.
At least two doctoral-level experts from a higher education or research institution in another country must issue official preliminary reports on the thesis.
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