PhD in Psychological Development, Learning and Health
Santiago de Compostela, Spain
DURATION
3 Years
LANGUAGES
Spanish, Galician
PACE
Full time
APPLICATION DEADLINE
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EARLIEST START DATE
Oct 2024
TUITION FEES
EUR 200 / per year
STUDY FORMAT
On-Campus
Introduction
This doctoral program is interuniversity in nature and involves researchers from the universities of A Coruña and Santiago de Compostela. Researchers from the universities of Barcelona, Oviedo and Valencia, as well as the Matia Gerontological Institute (INGEMA) are also integrated into their teams.
The program welcomes more than 30 researchers and is structured around two lines of research:
- Line A "Research in Developmental and Educational Psychology"
- Line B "Health psychology"
The fundamental objective of the program is to develop investigative competencies in the fields related to two lines of research that are proposed and the teams that make them up (ie management of databases and documentary review, planning and implementation of experimental designs, psychological evaluation and information gathering, qualitative and quantitative data analysis, writing and defense of scientific reports and multidisciplinary teamwork in national and international groups).
Line A brings together five research teams that focus their research activity on:
- Language acquisition and assessment and intervention in their disorders
- The improvement of learning processes, the evaluation of their difficulties and the psychological intervention in specific educational needs that derive from them
- The factors that condition psychosocial development and academic performance in emerging adulthood or youth and the prevention of imbalances in this period
- Evaluation and intervention in cognitive and functional impairment in aging and dementias, particularly Alzheimer's.
Line B is made up of researchers from areas of knowledge of Methodology of the behavioral sciences; Personality, evaluation and psychological treatments; Psychobiology; Basic psychology; and Social Psychology. These researchers develop their activity, among others, in the fields of social movements, the neuropsychological effects of toxins, the analysis of social movements and risk behaviors, environmental psychology and family therapy.
Lines of investigation
- Psychosocial development and academic performance in emerging adulthood
- Language Development: Acquisition and Disorders
- Psychological research in aging and dementia
- Research on academic learning and its difficulties in educational contexts
- Learning difficulties and specific educational needs
- Health Psychology
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Ideal Students
Candidates to be admitted to the Program will have preferential access when they have passed at least 60 ECTS in one of the following master's degrees:
- Master's Degree in Gerontology (Interuniversity: UdC, USC)
- Master's Degree in Innovation, Guidance and Educational Evaluation (UdC)
- Master's Degree in Intervention in Disability and Dependency (UdC)
- Official Master's Degree in Advanced Studies on Language, Communication and Their Pathologies (Interuniversity: UdC, USC, USAL).
- Master's Degree in Compulsory Secondary Education and Baccalaureate Teaching, Vocational Training and Language Teaching (UdC/USC).
- Master's Degree in Applied Psychology (UdC)
- Master's Degree in Psychogerontology (Interuniversity: USC, UV, USAL, UB).
- Master's Degree in Intervention in Psychological Development and Learning (USC).
Students with a DEA degree obtained through extinct or disappearing programs linked to the departments of Developmental and Educational Psychology (USC and UdC), and Psychology of the UdC will also have preference for access to the program.
Regarding the level of language knowledge required, both the UdC and the USC establish that students must have a level of knowledge of English B1 accredited by documentation in relation to the Common European Framework of Reference for Languages. For students who carry out their stays in research centers abroad within the PD, the following levels of knowledge are established:
- French or English: Minimum level B2.
- German Minimum level B1.
- Italian: Minimum level A2.
- Portuguese: no linguistic requirement is required.
The required level of language knowledge may be accredited after the research stay within 1 year.
Foreign students:
Graduates will be able to access it according to foreign educational systems, without the need for approval, after verification by the University that it accredits a level of training equivalent to the official Spanish university master's degree and that it entitles the country issuing the degree to access. to doctoral studies. This admission will not imply, in any case, the homologation of the previous degree of which the interested party is in possession or its recognition for purposes other than access to doctoral education.
Admissions
Curriculum
Formation activities
- Management of databases and electronic documentary resources (USC) E3111A01
- User Training Courses (UDC) E3111A02
- Public presentation of the review work on the state of the art in the research topic E3111A03
- Preparation and presentation of oral scientific communication and/or poster at a national or international scientific meeting with topics related to the research topic E3111A04
- Preparation and presentation of oral scientific communication at an international scientific meeting with topics related to the research topic E3111A05
- Public presentation of the progress in the research work E3111A06
- Stays in national or foreign research centers with prestigious researchers in the chosen research field E3111A07
- Preparation and acceptance of scientific articles in publications with impact JCR E3111A08
Training complements
- Research designs applied to health psychology P2151201
- Multivariate data analysis models applied to health psychology P2151202
- Aging and personal and emotional development P2171101
- Aging and social development P2171102
- Cognitive changes in normal and pathological aging P2171103
- Psychobiological bases of normal and pathological aging P2171104
- Functional and cognitive evaluation and intervention P2171105
- Evaluation and clinical intervention in mental disorders of aging P2171106
- Neuropsychological evaluation and intervention in dementia and other disorders P2171107
- Psychosocial and educational evaluation and intervention P2171108
- Bioethics and deontology P2171202
- Quantitative and qualitative methodologies in psychogerontological research P2171204
- Methods and designs in language research P3321101
- Analysis of practical cases through a statistical package P3321102
The CAPD will assess the suitability of the training of candidates who can prove they have obtained at least 60 ECTS in another official master's degree if there are vacant places after the preferential admission of students. The CAPD will analyze the training profile of the doctoral students taking into account their undergraduate and postgraduate training and, by virtue of the line of research in which they enroll, will establish the specific training complements (CF) that the doctoral student must take. within the available offer.
The training complements will be established for each doctoral student taking into account three basic training areas: Research designs and methods, Data analysis, and Database management and preparation of scientific reports.
Program Outcome
The fundamental objective of the program is to develop research skills in the areas related to the two lines of research that are proposed and the teams that make them up (i.e., database management and documentary review, planning and implementation of experimental designs , psychological evaluation and information collection, qualitative and quantitative data analysis, writing and defense of scientific reports and multidisciplinary teamwork in national and international groups).