Pre-registration phase
Potentially interested individuals will be informed about the program's features, access and admission criteria, and the administrative procedure for admission and enrollment through the usual channels and within the doctoral program offerings: online channels, posters, media outlets, institutional social media, and other official channels.
The contact information for the ULL Doctoral Office is as follows:
Appointment: https://www.ull.es/citaprevia/Opening hours: 9:00 a.m. to 2:00 p.m.Address: Anchieta Campus. Calabaza Building – AN.2D Box 456. 38200 San Cristóbal de La Laguna.
Telephones: 922317270 and 922317269Email: doctorado@ull.es
The university also has an Information and Orientation Service (IOS), which is the office dedicated to providing information, advice, and guidance to prospective students on matters related to their education and university life, as well as directing them to the appropriate offices with any more specific requests. The IOS is located on the ground floor of the Central Building on the University of La Laguna's Central Campus, on Pedro Zerolo Street in La Laguna. Its website is: https://www.ull.es/servicios/servicio-de-informacion-y-orientacion-sio/
Welcome and orientation of new arrivals
The Doctoral School will offer a welcome day for new students, as well as information sessions on specific topics of interest. All students are also enrolled in a virtual classroom for notifications and a communication channel.Students will also attend a program presentation session led by the coordinator of the University of La Laguna's academic committee and will be included in a virtual classroom for the program.In the Doctoral School Website There are several links with information on all the necessary procedures for completing a doctoral thesis, as well as the related forms. Of particular importance for new students may be the page containing all the regulations for doctoral studies.
Internal Quality Assurance Service of the University of La Laguna
As a guarantee of the quality of teaching, its improvement, and the protection of the rights of students and faculty, the degree program is governed by specific regulations regarding dissemination mechanisms within the University of La Laguna's Internal Quality Assurance System.
To access any of the ULL's doctoral programs, you must meet the requirements established in Article 5 of the Regulations for Official Doctoral Studies at the University of La Laguna.
The applicant must submit the endorsement of a researcher as a potential supervisor for the doctoral thesis, meeting the requirements of Article 10 of the ULL Doctoral Regulations. The endorsement must come from a person assigned to the program.Downloadable Guarantee Template
Regarding language skills, candidates wishing to enroll in the program are advised to have a level of English that allows them, at least, to comprehensively read scientific texts in the thematic areas of the program in which they are interested in developing their training and research activities, as well as to present the results obtained in their research at international scientific conferences or meetings, or to undertake stays at foreign universities and/or centers.
Admission Profile
Given the transversal nature of the proposed Doctoral Program, which includes two lines of research related to Regional Development (Line 1: Governance, sustainability and territorial development, and Line 2: Cross-cutting, sectoral, energy and transport policies), the recommended entry profile for the program is considered to be that which corresponds to graduates of undergraduate degrees (or equivalent) in the area of Social Sciences, Law and Humanities and, more specifically, and derived from the experience of previous Doctoral programs in Training, Employment and Regional Development, and Regional Development, Training and Employment, those who have a master's degree in the subject of Regional Development, among which is the Master's degree in Regional Development offered by the University of La Laguna, whose information can be consulted at the following address: link.
Additional entry profiles are also considered: a) students with an Advanced Studies Diploma (DEA) in the fields of Social Sciences, Law, and Humanities; and b) postgraduate students in any field of knowledge with experience in the formulation, management, and implementation of public policies who wish to improve or acquire the skills and abilities necessary to conduct substantive research in the field of Regional Development.
The entry profile required to access this doctoral program is as follows:
Recommended Admission Profile:
· Students with a degree in Social and Legal Sciences or Humanities and a Master's degree (or, where applicable, a DEA degree or research proficiency) in Regional Development topics.
Additional Admission Profiles:
Students with specific educational support needs:
In compliance with Royal Decree 99/2011, of January 28, regulating official doctoral programs, a specific program is in place to assist students with specific educational support needs to promote their educational and social integration. More information here (hyperlink: https://www.ull.es/la-universidad/inclusion/#becas-PAED)
As established in Article 6 of the ULL Doctoral Regulations, the academic committee may establish criteria for the selection and admission of students. In the case of this program, the following criteria will be applied to evaluate applications:
Body in charge of the admission process
The body responsible for the admissions process is the Academic Committee of the Doctoral Program in Regional Development at the University of La Laguna.
Applicants who meet the Recommended Admission profile, i.e., those with a Bachelor's degree in Social and Legal Sciences or Humanities and a Master's degree in Regional Development topics (or, where applicable, a DEA degree or research proficiency in these topics), are not required to complete additional training courses. For the additional admission profiles indicated above, however, the completion of the specific additional training courses indicated below is required to acquire the basic methodological and instrumental skills required to conduct their research in Regional Development. Generally speaking, these additional training courses will consist of following the activities planned for the subjects considered specific to the research specialty of the Master's Degree in Regional Development at the University of La Laguna, which is directly linked to the doctoral program. Specifically:
Students with a degree in Social and Legal Sciences or Humanities, whose Master's degree, or in their case in possession of the DEA or research sufficiency title, is not in regional development and who also have no experience in public policies, must take additional training for a total of 12 ECTS, taking the following 4 subjects of the Master in Regional Development of the ULL:
Those students who hold a degree in a field other than Social and Legal Sciences or Humanities, whose Master's degree, or where applicable, hold the DEA title or research sufficiency, is not in regional development but do have experience in public policies, must take additional training for a total of 12 ECTS, taking the following 4 subjects of the Master's degree in Regional Development at ULL:
Those students whose Degree is not in the field of Social and Legal Sciences or Humanities, whose Master's degree, or in their case in possession of the DEA title or research sufficiency, is not in regional development and who also have no experience in public policies must take additional training for a total of 18 ECTS, taking the following 6 subjects of the Master in Regional Development of the ULL:
Training and innovation in services: the case of the tourism sector (3 ECTS)
Evaluation of training and employment policies (3 ECTS)
Evaluation of social projects for local development (3 ECTS)
Sustainable development as an alternative: critical assessment of initiatives undertaken at the local level (3 ECTS)
Methods and techniques of political analysis applied to regional development (3 ECTS)
Corporate social and environmental responsibility: a global approach (3 ECTS)