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• applications submissions: no later than 11:59 p.m. (CEST) on 07 March 2024
• outcome of the assessment of qualifications: within 25 March 2024
• oral interviews: from 02 to 19 April 2024

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Call for admission to ph.d. course in romance and italian philology in the digital turn .

• applications submissions: no later than 11:59 p.m. (CEST) on 24 June 2024
• outcome of the assessment of qualifications: within 1st July 2024
• oral interviews: from 10 July to 15 July 2024

Call for admission to Ph.D. course in Faculty of Humanities

• applications submissions: no later than 11:59 p.m. (CEST) on 30 May 2024
• outcome of the assessment of qualifications: within 17 June 2024
• oral interviews: from 24 June to 15 July 2024

All doctoral programmes are open to both Italian and non-Italian students. All students admitted to our doctoral programmes receive a scholarship, which includes financial support for accommodation. Students are also entitled to free meals at the School's canteen. No registration fees are required, and the School refunds the regional student tax. All students are entitled to additional funding for their research activities, in Italy and abroad. For each PhD course, a place is reserved for candidates who graduated in foreign universities, provied they obtained a qualification valid to access the competition. A place is reserved in the ranking list for each course.

Additional places in collaboration with external institutions or from research projects, as well as those that could be activated on the call herein from the resources of the National Recovery and Resilience Plan assigned to the SNS, may be made available for this call before the deadline for submission of applications.

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The following candidates, regardless of their citizenship, can apply:

• those who have a master's degree or an equivalent non-italian qualification, awarded no more than five years before the deadline of the call;
• those who will obtain a master's degree in Italy or an equivalent qualification in a non-Italian university by 31 October 2024;

Admission to doctoral programmes will be based on academic assessment of candidates and on interviews.

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The Department promotes and manages 3 research centres and a Ph.D programme on "Private, international and labour Law". It co-operates to the Ph.D . programme in Philosophy; contributes, through the activity of some of its scholars, to the following Ph.D programmes:

• Human Rights, Society and Multi-level Governance (University of Padova);
• History (University of Padova)
• Sociology and Social Research (University of Bologna)
• Political Science and Sociology (Scuola Normale Superiore, Firenze)

The Department of Political Science, Law, and International Studies manages

• 4 first-cycle degrees: Economic law, Political sciences, international relations, human rights, Political sciences, international studies, public administration, Social work (qualifying for welfare officers)
• 5 second-cycle degrees: European studies, Government sciences and public policies, Human rights and multi-level governance (entirely held in English), International politics and diplomacy, Sciences of social work

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Elif savas ph.d. receives distinguished teaching awards.

Elif Savas (Political Science) and RoseAnn Elaine Vik (Microbiology) are this year's graduate student winners of the University's Distinguished Teaching Award. They will be recognized for their exceptional work in teaching during the Graduate Commencement ceremony on Friday, May 17, at McGuirk Alumni Stadium. ​Elif Savas was born in Eskisehir, Turkey,  and grew up in Istanbul. Her Ph.D. is in political science with a concentration on political theory and comparative politics. She feels honored to receive this year’s Distinguished Teaching Award in recognition of her abilities to create a non-punitive classroom environment and build trust with her students through empathy and curiosity. 

Savas’s aptitude for educating goes beyond the classroom. She presented research from her dissertation, “Gendering the Far Right: A Comparative Perspective of Gendered Autocratization in the 21st Century,” to the American Political Science Association and Latin American Studies Association and also spoke at the Countering Backlash International Conference.

Before starting her doctoral program, Savas earned a Master of Philosophy degree from UMass Amherst. Her thesis, “Proper Subjects of Gendered Necropolitics: A Case of Constructed Virginities in Turkey,” was published as a book chapter in “Turkey’s Necropolitical Laboratory: Democracy, Violence, and Resistance” (2019).

Prior to moving to Massachusetts full time, Savas was awarded multiple grants and fellowships to conduct research in the United States. Among these are the graduate school’s Summer Research Grant (given in partnership with the College of Social and Behavioral Sciences) and the Fulbright Master’s Program Award.

Following graduation, Savas plans to work actively as a researcher, educator, and political activist on the defense of reproductive rights for sexual and gender minorities.  (UMass News, 5/9/24)

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Call and information - 40th cycle - deadline for applications 13 June 2024 at 12 (midday) details

Academic year 2023/2024

• 31 Ph.D programmes  | headquarter at the University of Florence
• 18 Ph.D programmes of national interest
• 11 Ph.D programmes in consortium or agreement

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Law 15 of 2022 amended the text of Article 38 of Legislative Decree 165 of 2001, introducing into Italian law the possibility of recognizing - for academic purposes - foreign PhD degrees directly by universities ( information on the procedure ).

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Commencement 2024: english, political science graduate eager to explore history of lgbtq activism.

Milo Heard will start work this summer on R.I. Foundation-funded research project

KINGSTON, R.I. – May 15, 2024 – As his final semester slips away, Milo Heard has been walking around campus snapping photos of people and places that have meant a lot to him in his two and a half years at the University of Rhode Island.

There are photos of the 193 Coffeehouse in the Memorial Union, his “home base,” where he was a barista and took part in poetry readings. There are also a lot of candids with friends.

“I’ve been spending a lot of time trying to take in every last little moment,” said Heard, who graduates this week with bachelor’s degrees in English literature and political science. “I’ve brought my little old digital camera and I’ve been taking photos all the time, spending time with friends, and just trying to soak it all in.”

Heard, a Cranston native, transferred to URI from Syracuse University in spring 2022 to be closer to home. At URI, Heard, an avid potter since high school, has found little time to make mugs and bowls, or other functional pieces. But his other passions – writing, reading and research – have gotten a good workout. 

Along with being a blogger for URI Campus Recreation, Heard has expanded his scholarly writing at URI. He’s explored research projects on topics that have looked at the intersection of conspiracy thinking and the rise of authoritarianism, and people’s reaction to transgender inclusion in athletics. 

“I’m very invested in social justice issues and transformative justice issues and advocacy,” he said. “The research on trans athletics is very important to me because I’m transgender and I did sports all through high school. I wasn’t out as trans then but I know sports are helpful for mental health and for keeping kids in school.”

That independent study project with political science professor Emily Lynch gave him great experience, developing his own research questions and learning how to do a survey. It also earned him an invitation to the New England Political Science Association Conference.

Instrumental in helping him navigate URI and connect with people around campus has been philosophy and political science professor Cheryl Foster. Heard has taken two political theory classes with her, including a capstone class in which his final research project was selected by the department’s Curriculum Assessment Committee as emblematic of the highest level of student achievement.

“It was a very intense class, requiring a lot of reading in political philosophy every night,” said Heard, a Dean’s List student and member Pi Sigma Alpha, the political science honor society. “But I had such great academic conversations with her. She really pushed me to explore things outside of class. It’s nice to have a teacher who is genuinely excited about your academic progress.”

“Milo has been the indisputable thought leader among his peers, offering nuanced yet inclusively framed insights about an impressive spectrum of political philosophers from the early Enlightenment forward,” said Foster. “He is nothing if not inventive, as capable of lighthearted originality as incisive interpretations.”

While Heard is chronicling his recent past at URI, he is ready to get out into the world and explore. 

Specifically, Heard is eager to start on new research – the history of LGBTQ+ activism. The project is being supported by a grant from the Michael P. Metcalf Memorial Fund and Christine T. Grinavic Adventurer’s Fund, which are administered by the Rhode Island Foundation. The grant will help him travel to San Francisco to explore the Dr. John P. De Cecco Archives and Special Collections of the GLBT Historical Society, one of the largest holdings in the world of materials pertaining to LGBTQ people.

Heard’s interests are in community organizing and the preservation of archival materials – along with the impact of the AIDS epidemic on oral storytelling and preserved knowledge.

“I strongly feel that my generation has lost some of that information and history of queer organizing because we’ve lost so many people to the AIDS epidemic,” he said. “There’s so much incredible organizing that happened during that era.”

Eventually, he would like to create a similar archive in Rhode Island, including looking into the history of the 193 Coffeehouse, which was established in the 1990s by gay and lesbian activists. “There are queer organizers in Rhode Island whose work is important,” he said. “Who’s documenting that?”

Eventually, Heard plans to return to school to pursue a Master of Library and Information Studies, which would allow him to combine his interests in reading, writing and research.

“I want to be someone who can make a difference in a community and I think librarians do that,” said Heard. “Libraries are incredible resources for people. I’ve gone to the library my entire life and there are amazing things you can find if you work with a librarian. They’re so dedicated.” 

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PhD programmes

Phd Programmes of Sant’Anna School aim to link basic and applied research in dynamic fashion, with a strong focus demands for innovation by industry and public institutions. Sant’Anna’s PhD programmes last three or four years: they are designed for bright young graduates, from Italy and abroad, who are admitted after a selective examination which values candidates’ educational background and their attitude for scientific research and interdisciplinary approach. All positions are fully-funded : the PhD student scholarship is renewed annually following a successful assessment. There are no tuition fees for the enrolment to the PhD.

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Calls open every year in January and close by June. Applications must be submitted on-line. Some programmes follow a different scheduling: please check timing and deadlines in every programme. The admission requirements are  Master Degree (M.Sc. or M.A.) or equivalent title Undergraduate students may also apply if they will graduate within 30 september.

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Phd in Biorobotics

With more than 100 students enrolled (with an average of 30 or more students per year), the PhD in BioRobotics is among the largest doctoral schools in robotics and biomedical engineering in the world

PhD in Agrobiodiversity

The goal is to enhance human resource capacities in the use and management of genetic variation in agricultural and natural systems

PhD in Agrobiosciences

Three-year Programme structured in 2 curricula: Genomics and crop production; Agriculture, environment and landscape

PhD in Health Science, Technology and Management

The PhD concerns the topic of health and of the equity of health systems: characterized by complexity, interdisciplinarity and dynamism, they require innovation and management skills to be sustainable and ensure adequate levels of care for clients

PhD in Economics

A 4-year PhD programme in Economics designed for highly qualified and motivated students who wish to acquire the research and analytical skills of the international scientific community in economics

The Ph.D in Law involves a broad set of areas ranging from private and private comparative law, public comparative and European law, constitutional and administrative law, criminal – national and international – law, law and technology.

Phd in Management Innovation, Sustainability and Healthcare

The PhD in Management in Innovation, Sustainability and Healthcare deals with the most important management topics which characterize current research activities

PhD in Human Rights, Global Politics and Sustainability: Legal and Philosophical Perspectives

The ideal candidate is a curious and open-minded researcher, willing to explore the variety of disciplines and approaches the programme has to offer.

PhD in Emerging Digital Technologies

The PhD Programme in Emerging Digital Technologies is a three-year programme which provides an exhaustive training path with structured teaching and supervised research activities

Phd in Translational Medicine

The mission of the PhD Programme in Translational Medicine (henceforth named Programme) is to educate and train post-graduate students with diverse academic backgrounds and highly motivated to pursue a career in experimental biomedicine and/or clinic

PhD in collaboration with other Universities

PHD in Transnational Governance

The course combines structured teaching with close supervision activities by a dedicated faculty. The duration of the programme and its grants is four years

PhD in Sustainable Development and Climate Change

The programme is organized in 6 curricula which share two common goals: to propose new sustainable models to address climate change, and to build a learning and research community able to promote innovative solutions to the problems of society

PhD in Artificial Intelligence

The Italian National PhD Program in Artificial Intelligence is made of 5 federated PhD courses that bring together 61 universities and research institutions

National PhD in Gender Studies

The National PhD in Gender Studies aims to train highly skilled experts in the field of Gender Studies, Feminist Studies, Queer Studies, Masculinity Studies, Disability Studies, Racism Studies, and Intersectional Studies

PhD in Scientific, Technological and Social Methods enabling Circular Economy

The aim of the PHD program, coordinated by the University of Padua, is to train researchers to offer innovative solutions to facilitate the transition from the linear production economy model to the circular economy model

PhD in Space Science and Technology – SST

The goal is to train researchers in science, engineering, technology and international relations in the space sector through the development of knowledge, skills and expertise in the research areas of interest of the participating universities

PhD in Theoretical and Applied Neuroscience

Four curricula to study the complexity of the brain, from cellular mechanisms to cognitive, from computational models to relations with social sciences

PhD in Cybersecurity

The PhD in Cybersecurity aims at forming a new generation of scholars, and future decision makers, who can support and increase the resilience of citizens, public institutions, and businesses to cyber-attacks

Dottorato in analisi e controllo di strutture e opere d'arte infrastrutturali

Il corso è finalizzato e fornire competenze per l’esercizio di attività di ricerca qualificate e attività professionali di elevata innovatività sui temi di modellazione, monitoraggio e controllo di strutture e opere d’arte infrastrutturali

PhDRIM - Ph.D. program of national interest in Robotics and Intelligent Machines

DRIM brings together all the research and training areas aimed at studying, developing, and constructing innovative robotic systems and intelligent machines

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Dr. Virginia (Ginny) Lee Lussier is a distinguished alumna of the Department of Government and Politics, having received both her master's degree and her Ph.D. from the department. She is now a professor emerita of political science at the California State University at Northridge. In her time at GVPT, Lussier worked with Dr. Jonathan Wilkenfeld as a graduate assistant, served as a Maryland Fellow, and served as a special project assistant in UMD's Office of the Chancellor. She was also selected to serve on the U.S. Commissioner of Education's Advisory Committee on Accreditation and Institutional Eligibility. Beyond UMD, Lussier earned a B.A. from Washington College, an M.A. from the University of Pennsylvania, and an Executive M.B.A. from Rutgers. Lussier was also a Fulbright Scholar in Bolivia. More information about Lussier's career can be found on the BSOS website here . 

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