Doctoral Program In Interdisciplinary Gender Studies

This proposal for a doctorate in Interdisciplinary Gender Studies constitutes, on the one hand, a novel commitment in the Spanish university scene, and on the other, a need derived from a long-experienced formative demand. The most recent research has shown how in many fields of scientific knowledge, from the humanities to medicine, passing through the social sciences and engineering, the variables of sex and gender are insufficiently considered. Science, like any other field of human activity, is not free from the cultural and social conditions of its time.

Gender stereotypes and the lower social value that women are subjected to are often transferred to a stereotyped and lesser consideration of their specific realities, whether of social or biological order, in the research. In this sense, in recent decades, gender studies have contributed to revealing and understanding hitherto unexplored areas of reality and also to reducing biases and errors in concepts and theories. In some cases, notably in the Social Sciences and Humanities, they have contributed to important reformulations of the disciplinary foundations of some fields of knowledge.

Our fundamental objective is to contribute to continue exploring and building these exciting and fruitful lines of research. They have contributed to important reformulations of the disciplinary foundations of some fields of knowledge. Our fundamental objective is to contribute to continue exploring and building these exciting and fruitful lines of research. They have contributed to important reformulations of the disciplinary foundations of some fields of knowledge. Our fundamental objective is to contribute to continue exploring and building these exciting and fruitful lines of research.

The objectives of this doctoral program fall within the promotion of gender equality demanded by European community policies, national legislation as well as international commitments on equality and non-discrimination between women and men. In this sense, this Doctorate adopts as its main objective the approach of gender mainstreaming (mainstreaming), which facilitates professional and interdisciplinary research training in gender studies.

General Characteristics of an Interuniversity Doctorate

Students enroll in any of the participating universities and are for all purposes students of the university in which they enroll. Thus, they must carry out the administrative procedures at that university and they will receive an inter-university degree whose issuance will be managed from the university in which they are enrolled, which also has custody of the files. The general coordination is rotating. The rotating nature of the coordination is relevant for the academic and administrative management of the program, but not for the files or organization of the personal work of the students. The temporality of the general coordination commission of the program will be for three years.

The students, even though they are enrolled in a specific university, can request that their doctoral thesis be supervised or co-supervised by any of the professors who are part of the program at the different participating universities. Below is the information on the participating universities and the link to the web page common to all of them. The Program is led by the Autonomous University of Madrid and its general coordinator is Professor Yolanda Guerrero Navarrete, Professor of Medieval History.