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 the different disciplines, while ensuring a high degree of theoretical and methodological specialisation in the individual subject areas.
The DOSS is structured in 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 belongs to two UniGe Departments: DISFOR (host site) and DISPO.

The DOSS aims to train highly specialised 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 a multi-method methodological training functional to the scientific analysis of the complex systems within which the individual is embedded. In particular, this is composed of transversal teaching aimed at the acquisition of theoretical and technical knowledge for doing research in the social sciences. This knowledge is then deepened in the curricular teaching.

The persons trained will be able to carry out teaching or research activities in an academic environment, or to operate as professionals in the following fields:

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

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

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

Co-taught doctorates are in place with each of these universities. In addition, the collaboration with professors from the Phd Course in Film Studies at Concordia University enables the organisation of various events in the field of Visual Sociology.

Read the teaching activities table.

Read the training activities table.

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