Area
social Sciences
Sub-Discipline
Other Social Sciences
University of Chile
- City: Ñuñoa,
- Commune: Santiago,
- Region: Metropolitan Region
goals
To train graduates of the highest level in the country, capable of developing original and autonomous research in social sciences, as well as comprehensive, critical and proactive interpretations of social phenomena through the management of complex theoretical and methodological systems, updated and accompanied by the characteristics of our local and regional realities in the context of globalization.
Applicant Profile
1.- Academic excellence measured through the grades obtained in the previous stages of training.
2.- Research experience, for which a master's degree in one of the social science disciplines will be valued.
3.- Teaching experience.
4.- Publications.
5. Language skills.
6.- Quality of the pre-research project.
Graduate profile
Students in the PhD program in Social Sciences are expected to acquire the following competencies:
1.- Ability to generate new knowledge and develop research autonomously, especially in the field of theory, research methodology in social sciences and applied social sciences.
2. Ability to identify scientific problems and to design valid procedures for their investigation.
3. Ability to use and design methodologies to address and study emerging topics.
Knowledge of the ethical principles of research in social sciences.
4.- Skills to communicate scientific knowledge to different audiences, such as scientific communities, undergraduate and postgraduate students, public and private users.
5.- Skills to advise people and institutions on matters related to the scientific knowledge available in the field of social sciences.
6.- Ability to establish academic relationships with researchers from other professions and nationalities and to develop – or participate in – interdisciplinary and transcultural research programs.
Lines of investigation
1. Contemporary Latin American psycho-sociopolitical and cultural processes.
2.- New identities, subjectivities and processes of subjectivation.
3.- Social sciences of gender, sexualities and minority groups.
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