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Globalization Studies | Funded by FCT

Coordinators

Coordinator: Diogo Ramada Curto - NOVA FCSH

Vice-coordinator: Margarida Marques – NOVA FCSH

Education Objectives

The Doctoral Program on Global Studies (DPGS) aims to bring together emerging research to analyze global issues, and to establish an interdisciplinary framework for thinking about globalization, both historically and in the present. Through the offer of courses and tutorials, public events, lectures, conferences and publications, the DPGS, designed in conjunction with a post-doctoral academic program, seeks to facilitate a broader understanding of global interdependencies and to develop new ways to rethink them.

Under the dramatic pressure of climatic and biological changes, globalization is arguably the most important process shaping the contemporary world, as patent in the transnational movement of people, commodities, and technologies, the circulation of information and cultural patterns, social relations and dynamic networks, political and economic institutions of global governance, international war, organized crime and terrorism threatening global security. If the study of globalization demands diverse approaches and the involvement of multiple disciplinary and theoretical perspectives, it also answers a need for a more cosmopolitan education restated since the encyclopedic attempts launched by the European Enlightenment.

A first guiding principle of the DPGS is to link a set of interrelated core issues with a range of disciplinary methods in order to provide a cohesive understanding of the complexities of global processes. A second guiding principle is to assess how global processes have produced different types of impact on –and generated a variety of responses from– local, national and trans-national issues. The program aims at breaking the boundaries between specialized fields or disciplines, allowing students a fuller view of the range of constraints and opportunities created by globalization.

The DPGS further enhances the University’s doctoral programs by providing a forum for the exploration of global processes.

Opening Date

September 2017

Vacancies

15 vacancies

5 scholarships

Documents Required

The application is made online.

Documents to be submitted with the application:

- Application form;

- Brief description of current research interests in the area of the candidate's doctoral (4 000 characters maximum);

- Academic, scientific and professional curriculum;

- Photocopy of Identity Card / Citizen Card / Passport;

- Photocopy of NIF;

- Photocopy of Qualification Certificate.

Access Conditions

The programme follows the admission criteria defined in the national regulation for academic degrees (Decree-Law 74/2006).

Candidates must either hold a MA degree, or have a scientific, scholar or professional curriculum demonstrating ability to successfully engage in this PhD programme.

Candidates are required to submit a detailed CV, their academic records and an academic letter of interest, expressing their motivation for pursuing this doctoral degree, and a description of their research interests (4000 characters maximum).

For applicants to the Doctoral Program on Global Studies who may be interested in a FCT scholarship, selection will also include a written exam, based on a previously distributed reading list concerning the topic of globalization, followed by an interview.

In addition to their academic record and to a detailed CV, applicants will be required to produce an academic letter of intent, expressing their motivation for pursuing a doctoral degree, and a description of their research interests. A written exam, based on a previously distributed reading list concerning the topic of globalization, and an interview will be the other tools for admission.

Exclusion criteria include: i) lack of relevant academic qualification; ii) absence of letter of intent; iii) letter of intent and CV indicating insufficient knowledge of the area or irrelevance of the candidate’s interests.

The programme’s goal is to attract only excellent students. Given the inherent interdisciplinarity in the area, admission criteria cannot exclude any type of academic background.