• Regulations of the Program in Humanities: History, Philosophy and Esthetics
• Academic Tutor

Each student admitted to a doctoral program will be assigned an Academic Tutor by the Academic Committee. The tutor must be a doctoral professor with accredited research experience, linked to the Unit or School that organizes the program, who will be responsible for ensuring the interaction of the doctoral student with the Academic Committee. The tutor may or may not coincide with the thesis supervisor.

• Thesis supervisor

The Academic Committee of each doctoral program will assign to each doctoral student, within a maximum period of six months from their enrollment, a doctoral thesis supervisor, who may or may not coincide with the tutor. The director will be a professor with accredited research experience who will accompany and assist the doctoral student in his/her research and in the preparation of the doctoral thesis.

• Research plan and document of activities of the doctoral student

The doctoral student must submit an annual research plan on the platform provided by the University for this purpose, with the approval of the tutor and director for evaluation by the Academic Committee. In each academic year there will be two calls for submission, the ordinary call in the month of April, and the extraordinary call in the month of September.

The Research Plan will state the thesis to be studied, propose the methodology to be followed and the sources to be consulted, the aims to be achieved, as well as the means and time schedule to achieve it, all according to the format established in the Regulations of the Doctoral Program.

The doctoral student must submit, through the platform enabled by the University for this purpose, the evidence of the training activities carried out during the course with the approval of the tutor and director for presentation and evaluation by the Academic Committee.

• Presentation of the thesis

The doctoral thesis will consist of an original research work related to one of the three lines of research of the program: philosophy, history or aesthetics. It must be written in Spanish or in another language of international scientific diffusion, if accepted by the Academic Committee. In certain cases, the Steering Committee of the EIDUFV, at the proposal of the Academic Committee, may authorize the presentation of a thesis by compendium of publications.

The requirements, structure and procedure to be fulfilled in this modality, as well as for the application for presentation of the thesis, admission, deposit and registration, are detailed in the Regulations of the Doctoral Program.

The reading of the doctoral thesis must be requested to the Academic Committee of the program, by submitting two copies of the work, in a non-final version. This submission must be accompanied by the favorable report of the director for its reading. Once this procedure has been completed, the Academic Committee will appoint an internal and an external evaluator who will issue a report to the UFV within one month. With this documentation, the Academic Committee will decide whether or not to proceed with the deposit of the Thesis, or will request, if necessary, the appropriate modifications. If the latter is done, afterwards, the Academic Committee will re-evaluate the thesis and if approved, the thesis deposit will be authorized. If the latter is denied, the doctoral student may file a written statement of allegations before the EDIUFV Steering Committee within one month. The written statement of allegations must be addressed to the Director of the EDIUFV. The thesis is deposited by delivering eight copies to the UFV registry duly bound and paginated according to the characteristics established in the “Regulations for doctoral studies” (art. 22)

• Publications required

It is an UNAVOIDABLE requirement to deposit and defend the doctoral thesis in this doctoral program the scientific dissemination of part of the results obtained in the research through publications of recognized scientific value in their area of knowledge. This means that the PhD student, before the thesis is deposited, must have published at least one article in an INDEXED journal, in quartiles Q1 or Q2 in the reference databases of each specific area or, failing that, a book chapter or even a book in a publishing house well positioned in the SPI (Scholarly Publishers Indicators) ranking.

• Defense and reading of the thesis

The doctoral thesis examining board is appointed by the EIDUFV Steering Committee, after hearing the thesis supervisor and the academic committee of the doctoral program. The examining board is made up of three full members and two substitutes who meet the academic conditions required by law; each of the full members is sent a copy of the thesis and a document of the student’s activities.

Afterwards, the President of the examining board calls the thesis defense ceremony, which the secretary informs the EIDUFV secretariat at least 20 days before the chosen date, and which is a public ceremony during the academic term. The defense of the thesis will take place at the Universidad Francisco de Vitoria, although in the case of interuniversity programs or thesis co-supervision agreements, it may be defended at any of the related universities according to what is established in the collaboration agreement.

The examining board, after secret deliberation, will issue a report and the grade awarded to the thesis, which may be: “Not apt”, “Pass”, “Good” or “Outstanding”. In addition, the examining board may propose that the thesis be awarded a “Cum Laude” mention, by means of a personal and secret vote of each member of the examining board. Finally, at the Universidad Francisco de Vitoria, the Steering Committee of the EIDUFV may annually award an Extraordinary Prize to the best Doctoral Thesis defended in the previous academic year from among those that obtained the highest grade.

Once the thesis has been approved, the EIDUFV secretary’s office will send the copy of the thesis in its possession and an electronic copy of the thesis to the University Library for consultation. The other copy of the thesis will be filed in the Student Secretary’s Office together with the doctoral student’s file.

The completion of the studies foreseen in these regulations will lead to the award of the title of Doctor by the Universidad Francisco de Vitoria, in accordance with the provisions of the regulations for the awarding of degrees and the Regulations of this Doctoral Program