Doctorates
The Department's doctoral offerings are divided into various directions, depending on the Department's type of involvement.
The Department has its own Doctorate Course with its administrative head office in the Department: Doctorate in History
This is a very wide-ranging third-level course from both a chronological and a competency point of view. It has lecturers from the department of Humanities but is coordinated by the Department of Political and Social Sciences.
Every year there are over 100 requests for admission to the Doctorate in History. There are requests for admission from Italian students, European students and non-European students. Some of the curricula activities are held by lecturers from the Department (Modern and Contemporary history, particularly Contemporary History; Constitutional and Administrative History; History of Africa and Asia). There is intense didactic activity in English for all students. In recent years, students have set up a successful Graduate Conference with an open Call.
Coordinator of the Doctorate: Prof.ssa Elisabetta Colombo
The PhD in Communication Sciences and Practices articulates its training around five main thematic lines.
The first is data analysis methods applied to communication sciences, with particular reference to the new technologies of AI, machine and deep learning, without neglecting the field of qualitative research.
The second area concerns the analysis and management of communication content production processes, both in the digital world and in the more traditionally physical world.
The third area is the analysis of the processes of public representation of reputation and management of public opinion.
The fourth area pertains to the technical dimension, which is divided into two strands, one more strictly technological-engineering and one technical-legal.
The last but not the least area is represented by innovative marketing declined both in the construction of multi-channel campaigns and in the construction of mechanisms of analysis and acquisition of market and institutional positioning of stakeholders.
The research tools provided in the course of study will allow doctoral students to carry out research even in the world of brand journalism, data driven consultancy, content creation in the digital field.
The multidisciplinary and transversal nature of the proposed course will allow dialogue and collaboration with other doctoral courses offered by the University of Pavia.
PhD coordinator: prof. Flavio Antonio Ceravolo
The three-year Ph.D. in Public Law, Criminal and International Justice is organized by the Department of Law (administrative headquarters), the Department of Political and Social Sciences and the Department of Economics and Business Sciences at the University of Pavia.
The Department of Political and Social sciences participates in the PhD. in Computational Mathematics and Decision Sciences.
This Doctorate course started in October 2018 thanks to the support of the Department of Mathematics of the University of Pavia, under the patronage of the “Departments of Excellence” and with the contribution of the ICS (Institute of Computational Science) at the Università della Svizzera Italiana (USI)
The Department collaborates in the management and the organisation of the Doctorate course with the help of the Director, Prof.ssa Silvia Figini, who is the vice-coordinator of the Doctorate course. Thanks to this collaboration, twelve scholarships for the three-year course have been assigned in collaboration with prestigious scientific organisations (IRCCS Mondino), companies (Generali, Datev, RES, Widech, Sea Vision etc) and institutions (PoliS-Lombardia).
In addition, the ICAM - International Centre of Advanced Computing for Medicine - connected to the PhD in Computational Mathematics and Decision Sciences, has been set up. This involves the Department of Political and Social sciences together with the Physics Department (administrative headquarters), Mathematics, Molecular Medicine, Civil Engineering and Architecture, Industrial and Information Engineering, sciences of Clinical Surgery, Diagnostics and Pediatrics, and Science of the Nervous System and Behaviour.
Vice-Coordinator of the Doctorate: Prof.ssa Silvia Figini.
The Department also participates in association with other universities on other Doctorate courses whose headquarters are at other universities. This involves a large number of Department professors who are members of the Teaching Board of the Doctorate courses.
ESLS has projects which are part of the Doctorates in Labour Studies (University of Milan) and Economic Sociology (University of Brescia); the Teaching Board has academics who come from the universities of Turin, Milan-Bicocca and Pavia.
The Mission of the programme is to transfer a solid thematic-disciplinary focus (in sociology, labour law, Management, organisational behaviour and labour psychology), as well as the ability to understand and to give fundamental attention to socio economic processes; focusing particularly on organisations and the work point of view.
The course is held by NASP (Network for the Advancement of Social and Political Studies), in collaboration with our Department and the Department of Political and Social Sciences at the University of Milan. The aim of the course is to train highly qualified professionals able to take part in and design research projects in the academic-institutional field, in research centres, in public and private organisations and think tanks.
Doctorate Research students in Political Sciences are often employed within national and European institutions and as managers in public administration as well as data and political analysts in the Italian and international private sector.