Seminars and Training activities

If the student accesses the research period of the PhD in Economic History programme with a degree other than the Interuniversity Master's Degree in Economic History, they will have to complete the specific training complements (to be taken within the Interuniversity Master's Degree in Economic History) that the Academic Committee in Economic History considers necessary. These complements will have to be passed before the presentation of the doctoral thesis project and will depend on the applicant's training.

During the research period in the PhD in Economic History programme, students will have to attend the PhD student Economic History seminars organized by the PhD students. These seminars are a training space for research staff in training. In these seminars, the student presents the progress of the research, receives comments from their classmates and the teaching and research assistant staff. Presentation at doctoral seminars is mandatory annually starting in the second year for those who do the doctorate full-time and every two years (starting in the third year) for those who do it part-time.

The organization is carried out by the doctoral students themselves. This experience began in the 2014-15 academic year and those who have collaborated in the organization of these seminars throughout so far have been: Roser Álvarez, Oriol Sabaté, Sara Torregrosa , Marisol López, Andrea Montero, Germán Forero, María José Fuentes, Guillermo Antuña, Julio Reyna and Martín Garrido, and in the most recent period: Songlin Wang, Xavier Jou, Wenxuan Zhang, Juan Monsalve, Daniele Vico and Julio César Irala.

To participate in this seminar, in addition to the programme's trainee researchers, students from other programmes can participate by writing to the organizers: seminar.phd.he@ub.edu, before October 30 of each year. An extended summary of the work is requested, 500 to 1000 words, exposing the research question, the hypothesis of the document, the objectives, the methodology, main results and preliminary conclusions.

In addition, the Academic Committee of the PhD in Economic History programme will schedule a series of activities in which students are encouraged to participate and which will be announced in a timely manner. More specifically, PhD students will have to attend, each year, the visiting professor courses organized by the programme, as well as the research methodology seminars organized by the Academic Committee.