The Doctorate in Social Sciences (DOSS) at UniGe aims to provide doctoral students with the theoretical and methodological tools to do research independently in the different fields of social disciplines. The DOSS promotes a scientific environment that enhances interaction and critical comparison between different disciplines, while ensuring a high degree of theoretical and methodological specialization in individual subject areas.
The DOSS is structured into four different curricula:

• Migrations and Cultural Processes
• Psychology and Cognitive Science
• Political Science
• Sociology

Each curriculum draws on the theoretical and methodological expertise of experienced academics from different research areas.
The DOSS pertains to two UniGe departments: DISFOR (host site) and DISPO.

The DOSS aims to train highly specialized figures in the analysis of the human person within the cultural processes and social change of today's societies. This capacity is developed through the acquisition of psychological and sociological skills, supplemented by the contribution of political, legal, pedagogical, historical and geographical disciplines.
Doctoral students are provided with multi-method methodological training functional to the scientific analysis of the complex systems within which the individual is embedded. In particular, this offering consists of cross-curricular teaching aimed at the acquisition of theoretical and technical knowledge for doing research in the social sciences. Such knowledge is then deepened in curricular teaching.

The people trained will be able to carry out teaching or research activities in the academic field, i.e., work as professionals in the following fields:

• design, supervision and evaluation of educational and social policies
• design, supervision and evaluation of organizational interventions, related to the analysis and resolution of complex social problems typical of the globalized society
• consultants and practitioners for public administrations, agencies and enterprises, NGOs and non-profit organizations
• experts in education and lifelong learning
• cultural mediators and skilled operators in research and documentation facilities
• trainers and practitioners in cooperation and conflict resolution in critical areas
• managers in PA and private entities

Currently, DOSS collaborates with several European and non-European universities, such as in particular

• the Université Grenoble Aples
• the Université Lumyere Lyon 2
• the Cadi Ayyad University
• the Université de Strasbourg

Doctoral co-tutorships are in place with each of these universities. In addition, collaboration with faculty members belonging to the Phd Course in Film Studies at Concordia University enables the organization of various events in the field of Visual Sociology.

Read the teaching activities table.

Read the training activities table.

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