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The thesis must be completed, within the legally established timeframe, under the supervision of the Director(s) and tutor(s), and the same person may occupy both roles.
The thesis supervisor - with the collaboration, where appropriate, of the tutor, if different - is the person most responsible for conducting all the research work of the PhD student, for the coherence and suitability of the training activities, for the impact and novelty of the subject matter of the thesis in his/her field, and for guiding the planning and development of the thesis, without prejudice, obviously, to the initiative and scientific freedom of the PhD student. Tutor, thesis supervisor and PhD student must sign a commitment to supervise the research in accordance with the applicable regulations (RD 99/2011, art. 11.8).
The Doctoral Programme in Law includes the necessary monitoring of those Joint or transversal Activities of the Doctoral School of the University of Valladolid or recognised by it which, evaluated in the equivalent of 270 hours, are made available to the doctoral students of this Programme or are recognised by the School as suitable for this purpose, and a minimum of 60 hours in methodological training activities related to the fundamental conceptual debates in Law, specifically offered by the Programme -or recognised by its Academic Committee- with the aim of providing doctoral students enrolled in the Programme with a better theoretical and practical preparation, at the highest scientific level and appropriate to the research training that is the object of the doctorate.
All the activities of each doctoral student will be recorded in a document of the activities of each doctoral student - to be completed on a digital platform established by the University for this purpose, under the immediate supervision of their tutor and their Director and the supervision of the Programme Coordinator and the Academic Committee. It is a necessary condition to have completed these training activities in order to be able to present the doctoral thesis for reading and grading, but they can be done in any of the years in which the student is enrolled in the programme.
Attendance at conferences with a wide audience given by leading national or international researchers or scholars, to be announced in due course each year or endorsed by the tutor or thesis supervisor and accepted by the Academic Committee and involving at least 10 hours.
- Participation in workshops, conferences, seminars or local congresses, for a minimum of 20 hours. They do not need to be organised by the Programme or the Doctoral School, but the tutor and the thesis supervisor must endorse their level and relevance for the doctoral training of the PhD student.
- To carry out activities that facilitate the access of doctoral students to the world of work (including the professional and university world) or their approach to the business, professional or university world, or that contribute to broadening and improving the perspectives and means of doctoral research, totalling at least 190 hours. They may consist of the following, although this list is not exhaustive:
- a) Stays in research (or R&D) centres of companies or public and/or private organisations, including universities, with the aim of promoting or facilitating the completion of theses within the framework of agreements with companies or other organisations (or also as a means of increasing the training of the doctoral student in a university or research centre in another country or even in Spain itself and of increasing their relations of scientific collaboration).
- b) Conferences or courses on labour (or professional) insertion that provide students with tools to deal with the creation of companies (including professional services) and business (or professional) management, practical aspects of how to be a good entrepreneur and examples of companies that arise from innovative initiatives (also in the legal professional field or related to it).
- c) Workshops on innovation and research management given by professionals working in this field (technicians from the Science Park Foundation, management companies, etc.).
- d) Language courses approved for this purpose by the Doctoral School.
- e) Teaching collaboration to start university teaching under the terms set out in the regulations governing pre-doctoral contracts for research staff (former FPI grants) precisely for the training of PhDs (thus article 18.5 of the Resolution of 9 August 2013, of the Secretary of State for Research, Development and Research, which approves the call, for 2013, for various actions included in the State Sub-programme for Training and the State Sub-programme for Mobility, etc., BOE 14 August).
- f) Temporary or sporadic legal collaboration that may eventually be provided in law firms, judicial bodies and other institutions or companies, also under the recommendation and endorsement of the thesis supervisor and tutor as relevant to doctoral training.
- Receipt of transversal training through courses organised for all the University's doctoral programmes by the Doctoral School - or recognised by it for this purpose - for a temporary value for each doctoral student of up to 50 hours.
With regard to the specific training activities of the Law Programme, each PhD student must obtain recognition of a minimum of 60 hours for participation in this type of activity, and it is recommended that they do so preferably in the first year of their PhD studies. To this end, a certain number of specific legal training seminars are offered each academic year. All doctoral students are free to follow as many as they wish. Each of these seminars will involve no less than six hours of classroom teaching, in the number of sessions determined by their professors and which will be included in the Programme Calendar, which will be made public in October. The follow-up of each of them will be counted as 12 hours to take into account the personal work to be done by each doctoral student. The Seminars corresponding to each year will be published on the Faculty of Law website and will be held, as a priority, from January to March.
Training activities not linked to courses, seminars and conferences may be carried out at any time during the Doctoral Programme, subject to the authorisation and supervision of the tutor and thesis supervisor and the relevant information provided by them to the Programme Coordinator and Academic Committee.
Doctoral students enrolled in the Programme who have been enrolled in previous doctoral programmes or regimes in Spanish or foreign universities may request the validation of the regulated training activities listed in section 3 above for other similar activities carried out at doctoral level, after their first enrolment in a doctoral programme or regime, with reliable accreditation. The validation must be requested from the Academic Committee of the Programme by the Programme Coordinator.