Loyola Doctorados

Members of the academic committee:

José Alberto Salinas Pérez (program coordinator and sponsor). Research focus on statistical and econometric models.
Mercedes Torres Jiménez (program professor and sponsor). Research focus on computational intelligence.
Pablo Ernesto Brañas Garza (program professor and sponsor). Research focus: experimental economics.
María Pilar Campoy Muñoz (program professor). Research focus: statistical and econometric models.
Francisco Martínez Estudillo (program professor). Research focus: statistical and econometric models.
Alfonso Carlos Martínez Estudillo (program professor). Research area: computational intelligence.
Horacio Molina Sánchez (program professor). Research area: experimental economics.
Ana Mª Pacheco Martínez (program professor). Research area: statistical and econometric models.
Carlos García Alonso (program professor). Research area: computational intelligence.

Responsibilities of the Program's Academic Committee.

1) Each of Loyola University's Doctoral Programs will have an Academic Committee and a Director.

2) The Academic Committee of the Doctoral Program is responsible for the academic coordination, updating, and excellence of the corresponding Doctoral Program, as well as for monitoring and supervising the activities carried out by doctoral students, tutors, and doctoral thesis directors.

a) The Academic Committee will be made up of the Director of the Doctoral Program and four doctors with recognized research prestige belonging to the lines of research associated with the program. The researchers who form the group of professors responsible for or endorsing the program will be ex officio members of the Academic Committee. The remaining members shall be appointed by the Vice-Rector for Research from among the doctoral professors of the corresponding program.

b) The director of the Doctoral Program will be one of its professors responsible for or endorsing the program. He or she will be appointed by the Rector, at the proposal of the Vice-Rector for Research. He or she will direct the Doctoral Program and convene and chair the Academic Committee of the Program.

 c) The Academic Committee's functions with regard to the supervision of the Doctoral Program are:

i) To organize and coordinate the training and research activities of the Doctoral Program.

ii) To plan and evaluate the acquisition of skills by doctoral students in the Doctoral Program.

iii) To propose to the School Board new lines of research to be incorporated into the Doctoral Program, the maximum number of students to be admitted, and to define the criteria for their selection.

iv) To inform the School Board about the candidates to be admitted to the Doctoral Program.

v) Advise the EDOC on the additional training required for students who need it.

vi) Manage, monitor, control, and evaluate the mobility activities of the Doctoral Program.

vii) Advise the School Board on any additional requirements that may apply to the incorporation of new research groups and the supervision, direction, and reading of doctoral theses.

viii) Report on the incorporation and separation of professors in the Doctoral Program.

ix) Monitor doctoral graduates from the Doctoral Program.

x) Provide and manage the information necessary to maintain the accreditations of the Doctoral Program, as well as that necessary for the University's quality systems. Specifically, it is the responsibility of the Academic Committee to keep the information on the Doctoral Program up to date on the University's website.

xi) Resolve all issues relating to the Doctoral Program.

xii) Any other function that may be assigned to it by the EDOC Management.

       d) The Academic Committee's functions with regard to doctoral students are as follows:

i) To monitor, control, and evaluate the Activity Documents of doctoral students, their Research Plans, and their annual Monitoring Reports.

ii) To assign the tutor and director of the students' Doctoral Thesis.

iii) To approve the students' first doctoral thesis project.

iv) To authorize part-time doctoral studies, as well as to authorize changes in study mode.

v) To evaluate co-supervision proposals and report to the School Board.

vi) To ensure that theses submitted for reading meet the minimum requirements.

vii) Authorize requests for international recognition.

viii) Propose to the School Board the members of the committee that will evaluate a doctoral thesis, determining the permanent and alternate members.

3) The Academic Committee of a Doctoral Program may be dissolved by the Rector.

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Meetings held to date:

Indicative dates for the upcoming meetings*:

 * These dates may be subject to change if decided by the Academic Committee.

Access Profile:

The knowledge required for admission to the Doctoral Programme in Inclusive and Sustainable Development at Loyola University matches one of these three profiles:

Profile 1

The knowledge required for admission to the Research Doctoral Programme in Inclusive and Sustainable Development at Loyola University are those corresponding to:

1. A bachelor's degree in an area of knowledge related to research methods or to the field of development, such as economics, business administration and management, engineering, sociology, mathematics and statistics, among others, and

2. A postgraduate degree in one of the areas of knowledge related to the previous bachelor's degrees awarded by an official master's programme in the European Union with a research or mixed focus in which the candidate has completed the research pathway and a master's thesis.

Languages required and level:

Spanish. Recommended level: B1

English. Recommended level: B2

Although fluency in English is not required in the admission exams, as the programme is taught in Spanish, students should understand that many of the materials used in the subjects (scientific articles, projects, etc.) and activities (seminars by international experts) will require a certain command of English. A B2 level of English is recommended.

The training activities of the doctoral programme are designed not only to increase the knowledge, skills and competence level of doctoral students, but also play an important role in compensating for any possible shortcomings.

Profile 2

In the second admission profile, the knowledge required for the Doctoral Programme in Inclusive and Sustainable Development at Loyola University is:

1. A bachelor's degree in an area of knowledge related to research methods or to the field of development, such as economics, business administration and management, engineering, sociology, mathematics and statistics, among others, and

2. A postgraduate degree in one of the areas of knowledge related to the previous bachelor's degrees awarded by an official master's programme in the European Union with a professional or mixed focus in which the candidate has completed the professional pathway.

Those who fit this second admission profile will have the opportunity to access the Doctoral Programme by taking the corresponding further training courses.

Languages required and level

Spanish. Recommended level: B1

English. Recommended level: B2

Although fluency in English is not required in the admission exams, as the programme is taught in Spanish, students should understand that many of the materials used in the subjects (scientific articles, projects, etc.) and activities (seminars by international experts) will require a certain command of English. A B2 level of English is recommended.

The training activities of the doctoral programme are designed not only to increase the knowledge, skills and competence level of doctoral students, but also play an important role in compensating for any possible shortcomings.

Profile 3

In the third admission profile, the knowledge required for the Doctoral Programme in Inclusive and Sustainable Development at Loyola University is:

1. A bachelor’s degree in an area of knowledge not related to research methods or the field of development, and

2. A postgraduate degree in an area of knowledge related to research methods or to the field of development, such as economics, business administration and management, engineering, sociology, mathematics, statistics, (among others), awarded by an official master's programme in the European Union.

Those who fit this third entry profile will have the opportunity to access the Doctoral Programme by taking the pertinent further training courses.  

Languages required and level

Spanish. Recommended level: B1

English. Recommended level: B2

Although fluency in English is not required in the admission exams, as the programme is taught in Spanish, students should understand that many of the materials used in the subjects (scientific articles, projects, etc.) and activities (seminars by international experts) will require a certain command of English. A B2 level of English is recommended.

The training activities of the doctoral programme are designed not only to increase the knowledge, skills and competence level of doctoral students, but also play an important role in compensating for any possible shortcomings.

The training activities of the doctoral programme are designed not only to increase the knowledge, skills and competence level of doctoral students, but also play an important role in compensating for any possible shortcomings.

Required languages and levels

In addition to the above, a Spanish level of B1 (if it is not your mother tongue) and an English level of B2 will be required. 

The Loyola School of Language, Culture and Communication is available to those who cannot accredit their language level by means of the corresponding certificate. By using this service, they will be able to accredit their language level using its online assessment system.

Additional Training

Those students who do not meet the conditions for direct admission to the Doctoral Programme will be required to take some complementary training, which may be:

• 12 ECTS credits: Which is the minimum number of credits recommended for the master’s thesis (TFM in Spanish) in research-oriented master's degrees.
• 20 ECTS credits: Research work equivalent to the master's thesis of a research-oriented master's degree (Min. 12 ECTS). And complete the pertinent total number of ECTS credits between the training activities of the doctoral programme offered and the subjects of the Master's Degree in Research Methods applied to Social Sciences, which include: Fundamentals of Research, Research Ethics and Mixed Research Methods.
   

If the master's programme that the candidate completed in their country of origin was not research-oriented, they will have to take: 20 ECTS as detailed above, in the same way as a student with a profile 3.

Members of the academic committee:

Araceli de los Rios (Coordinator of the Inclusive and Sustainable Development Program)

Maria José Montero Simó (program professor and line sponsor)

Antonio Sianes Castaño (program professor and line sponsor)

Juan Antonio Senent de Frutos (program professor and line sponsor)

Mª Luz Ortega Carpio (program professor)

Rafael Angel Araque Padilla (program professor)

Responsibilities of the Program's Academic Committee.

1) Each of Loyola University's Doctoral Programs will have an Academic Committee and a Director.

2) The Academic Committee of the Doctoral Program is responsible for the academic coordination, updating, and excellence of the corresponding Doctoral Program, as well as for monitoring and supervising the activities carried out by doctoral students, tutors, and doctoral thesis directors.

a) The Academic Committee will be made up of the Director of the Doctoral Program and four doctors with recognized research prestige belonging to the lines of research associated with the program. The researchers who form the group of professors responsible for or endorsing the program will be ex officio members of the Academic Committee. The remaining members shall be appointed by the Vice-Rector for Research from among the doctoral professors of the corresponding program.

b) The director of the Doctoral Program will be one of its professors responsible for or endorsing the program. He or she will be appointed by the Rector, at the proposal of the Vice-Rector for Research. He or she will direct the Doctoral Program and convene and chair the Academic Committee of the Program.

       c) The Academic Committee's functions with regard to the supervision of the Doctoral Program are:

i) To organize and coordinate the training and research activities of the Doctoral Program.

ii) To plan and evaluate the acquisition of skills by doctoral students in the Doctoral Program.

iii) To propose to the School Board new lines of research to be incorporated into the Doctoral Program, the maximum number of students to be admitted, and to define the criteria for their selection.

iv) To inform the School Board about the candidates to be admitted to the Doctoral Program.

v) Advise the EDOC on the additional training required for students who need it.

vi) Manage, monitor, control, and evaluate the mobility activities of the Doctoral Program.

vii) Advise the School Board on any additional requirements that may apply to the incorporation of new research groups and the supervision, direction, and reading of doctoral theses.

viii) Report on the incorporation and separation of professors in the Doctoral Program.

ix) Monitor doctoral graduates from the Doctoral Program.

x) Provide and manage the information necessary to maintain the accreditations of the Doctoral Program, as well as that necessary for the University's quality systems. Specifically, it is the responsibility of the Academic Committee to keep the information on the Doctoral Program up to date on the University's website.

xi) Resolve all issues relating to the Doctoral Program.

xii) Any other function that may be assigned to it by the EDOC Management.

       d) The Academic Committee's functions with regard to doctoral students are as follows:

i) To monitor, control, and evaluate the Activity Documents of doctoral students, their Research Plans, and their annual Monitoring Reports.

ii) To assign the tutor and director of the students' Doctoral Thesis.

iii) To approve the students' first doctoral thesis project.

iv) To authorize part-time doctoral studies, as well as to authorize changes in study mode.

v) To evaluate co-supervision proposals and report to the School Board.

vi) To ensure that theses submitted for reading meet the minimum requirements.

vii) Authorize requests for international recognition.

viii) Propose to the School Board the members of the committee that will evaluate a doctoral thesis, determining the permanent and alternate members.

3) The Academic Committee of a Doctoral Program may be dissolved by the Rector.

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Meetings held to date:

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* These dates are subject to change if so decided by the Academic Committee.

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