The training structure, framed in the ECTS system, includes structured activities and individualized activities aimed at defining a specific profile for each doctoral candidate (formalized in major/minor areas, where necessary).
Training activities include:
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Online and in-person lectures and in-presence winter and summer schools (see below for descriptions - see attached file and at the page
Seminars for details). Lectures are livestreamed via zoom and accessible, subject to approval, to interested doctoral and postdoctoral students. Access to didactic materials is restricted to doctoral students.
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Multiple supervision: each PhD student will be supervised by 1 main tutor and 2 co-tutors belonging to institutions and research centers in two different foreign countries.
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Mandatory individual mobility of at least 6 months. Mobility may take place toward one or more foreign institutions; preferncial exchange institutions are signatory and partner universities of the doctoral program.
- The presence in the doctoral program of
international faculty and experts on various Continents allows for inclusion in transnational collaborative research teams.
- Throughout the three years of training, doctoral students will be trained, encouraged and supported in the
publication of their studies in ways recognized by the relevant international communities.
Resources
Doctoral candidates have at their disposal the resources of their home universities and, during periods of mobility, those made available by the host universities.
Resources available at Sapienza, CORIS include study rooms,
laboratories and dedicated workstations https://web.uniroma1.it/coris/strutture
Specifically related to the doctoral program is the
Moscovici library resource, donated to the
Social Research, Informatics and Communication library by Prof. Annamaria Silvana de Rosa, has an endowment of about 180 doctoral theses discussed at E.H.E.S. in Paris from 1974 to 2005 and is enriched by various multimedia materials and collections of articles relevant to understanding the genesis and development of the Theory of Social Representations, useful for consultation by scholars, students and doctoral students interested in this area of research.
INTERNATIONAL WINTER & SUMMER SCHOOLS
- Each year, Partners and Sapienza Universities organize a winter and a summer school. These are intensive international in-person seminars of weekly duration. Each shcool is dedicated to the in-depth study of a paradigmatic approach and/or thematic area characterizing the scientific field of social representations with openness to trans-disciplinary approaches.
LECTURES
Lectures are organized according to a common schedule and involve all partner sites.
The lectures, in-person and online, are taught in English from November to February
Introduction to Social Representation Theory
The birth of the theory: Moscovici, Jodelet and the EHESS, Moscovici’s legacies in European Social Psychology; minority influence and social representations theories; principles of social psychology; post-modern, costructionist and cultural approaches in psychology
Introduction to Communication Theories and Social Construction of Reality
Communication as a social foundation; types and functions of media; old and new media and everyday experience; communication, narratives and representations; principles of sociology of culture and communication
Early developments - theories
The early development and classic schools in social representations theory: Structural Approaches, nucleus and periphery; Sociodynamic Approaches, anchoring and levels of analysis; Critical-Discursive Approaches, power and representations; Ethnographic Approaches, practices and representations
Early developments - methods
Methods in social representations theory; method in sociology and communication studies; From quantitative studies to critical discursive approaches; Eclectic perspectives, innovation, triangulation and mixed method approaches
Developing a research plan
Aim of the course is to introduce to all the different facets of planning a research: from personal interest, to research topic, to proper research questions; Typologies of literature review; Selection of appropriate methods, variables and operationalization; Planning time and resources
Theoretical developments in social representations tehory
The course aims to provide advanced knowledge on the ongoing theoretical developments within and across the different approaches to social representations: Current challenges in Structural approaches; Sociodynamic approaches; Ethnographic approaches; Meta-theoretical approaches; Modeling approaches
Challenges and intersections
The course aims to provide an advanced understanding of the challenges emerging from the intersection and exchange among contemporary perspectives on representations and media: Reality as mediatized social construction; Media and the construction of common sense; Communication, digitalization and cultures of contemporaneity; Intervention and social change
Theoretical and methodological advances
The course aims to provide an advanced understanding of the challenges emerging from the intersection and exchange among contemporary perspectives in social psychology and related disciplines: Embedded knowledge; Distributed knowledge; Discursive and narrative turns; Current trends in cultural psychology; Critical-discursive approaches; Cultural studies; The study of representations in the Humanities; Visual Culture research; Principles of semiotics
Styles and requests across disciplines and nations; Journals, chapters, boks, special issues; how to identify a suitable journal, new trends open access and pre-registered studies, the risks of predatory publishing; the anatomy of a research article, the stages of writing; how to respond to reviewers.
Impact beyond Scientific Publishing
The course aims to explore fundamental aspects relating to the impact of scientific research beyond publications: Impact and engagement; from publication to co-production of knowledge; tools and trends for dissemination and public engagement; designing & implementing social intervention for social change.
Ethics is a fundamental aspect in the planning and conduct of any study. This course aims to introduce and deepen theoretical reflection and practical aspects: Ethic of research within and across disciplines; Codes of conduct; Regulations; Practical aspects and case studies.
Other Training Activities
In the second and third years, doctoral students will complete their training with in-person and online courses aimed at deepening theoretical and methodological topics, as well as acquiring skills in science communication and dissemination, design, e.g.:
- advanced training courses on the use of statistical software,
- training in the use of science dissemination tools,
- training in scientific communication and publishing skills in different scientific communities and international contexts,
- research funding opportunities, from project to application. e.g. ERC and MSCA Actions, etc.
- open badge certified courses https://www.uniroma1.it/it/pagina/open-badge-sapienza.