Training activities
1. COMMUNICATION IN THE SOCIAL AND LEGAL SCIENCES WORKSHOP (15 hours)
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Improve scientific communication skills at congresses of the social and legal sciences and the humanities.
Scientific congresses afford sharing knowledge, experiences, and research results. They intend to provide tools and solutions to improve the presentations of papers, covering the entire process, from the choice of relevant content, the design of the presentation, to its presentation in situ.
Different formats will be considered: communication, round table discussions, posters, etc.
The intent is for the attendant to be able to:
a) Optimize presentations in time, form, and content.
b) Improve their communication and defense skills.
The proposed activities will take place the first year for full-time students. Part-time students will carry these out during the first two years.
This activity corresponds with competencies CB15, CB16, and CA06.
The faculty member responsible for each workshop will monitor attendance and participation at them. The student will present an oral communication of a research paper via a PowerPoint presentation to the faculty member(s). The paper presented will be determined by the faculty member(s), and it may consist of some work completed by the very student. Attendance at this workshop is required once. Both the tutor and the thesis advisor for each student who attend the workshop will be informed of this fact, and this information will be included in their research plans.
2. SCIENTIFIC PAPER DEVELOPMENT WORKSHOP (15 hours)
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Publishing scientific papers, whether in journals or other formats, is one of the essential tasks of researchers for disseminating their results.
This workshop strives to provide tools and resources to allow for producing papers that meet the minimum and common requirements of indexed journals and those with high impact factors.
Aspects such as structure, form, content, and style will be covered, keeping in mind the vast diversity of models that exist in the social and legal sciences and the humanities.
The intent is for the attendant to be able to:
a. Select the media (journal, report, material, etc.) that best suits the paper's dissemination objective.
b. Organize the work of preparing a written document and/or an artistic one.
c. Assess structure, format, and style alternatives.
d. Develop the ability to meet the expectations of the chosen media.
The proposed activities will take place during the first year for full-time students. Part-time students will complete them during the first two years.
This activity corresponds with competencies CB11, CB12, CA02, and CA03.
The faculty member responsible for the workshop will monitor attendance and participation at them. The doctoral student will review a research paper as if he/she were an actual journal referee. To accomplish this, elements will be used the way they were explained in the workshop. The document is to contain a minimum 300 words and a maximum 1000. Attendance at this workshop will be required once. Both the tutor and the thesis advisor for each student who attend the workshop will be informed about this fact, and this information will be included in their research plans.
3. BASES OF SCIENTIFIC RESEARCH, RESEARCH ACTIVITY, AND ITS FUNDING (120 hours)
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This activity presents basic and homogenous criteria related with university scientific research to the students. To accomplish this, the students will receive the training necessary to enable them to conceive, design, implement, and adopt a research process. Furthermore, it will permit them to conduct critical analysis, evaluation, and synthesis of new and complex ideas that they will have to address throughout their research tasks. Just the same, this activity strives to afford the student an effective capacity to manage and organize information, as well as a solid ethical and responsible commitment in their work. The activity will be required for both full- and part-time students during the first year. This activity corresponds with competencies CB11, CB12, CB13, CB14, CB16, CA01, CA02, CA03, and CA05.
The student must present the person responsible for this activity with an at length review about some of the works cited in the bibliography referenced in this activity's program.
4. ADVANCES IN RESEARCH SEMINAR (15 hours)
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Every day, research requires work that is more collaborative. When this is not possible, because such case consists of a dissertation or individual work, enriching the contribution with multidisciplinary perspectives that help generate advances in the research is important.
For this reason, it is imperative that doctoral students become aware of both theoretical and methodological advances and that they promote debate and discussion on them.
This seminar strives to:
a) Present some of the new theoretical and methodological developments within their research field.
b) Further critical capabilities of both accepted classical assumptions as well as new advances.
The proposed activities will take place during the first year for full-time students. Part-time students will carry these out during the first two years.
This activity corresponds with competencies CB11, CB13, CB14, CB16, CA01, CA03, and CA05.
Each student must prepare a review of some theory or methodological technique and then present it to the faculty and fellow students in order to generate debate and assessments. The ability to summarize, exhibit, and reflect will be highly valued.
5. SCIENTIFIC FORUM (36 hours)
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This activity emerges with the purpose of creating common meetings between students in the program so they can exhibit the current state of their research, the difficulties encountered, solutions proposed, etc. These could be called meeting workshops, where it is intended that every one presents the most relevant results from their research, with solutions and work alternatives proposed from their respective experiences.
There are three workshops, one each year, wherein students will proceed by presenting the status of their research via poster presentations or similar procedures. The purpose of this activity is for all students to be aware, at all times, what the others are working on, to bring up scientific concerns that arise, to seek solutions as a group, on the premise that there must be specific problems repeated over time, as well as the conclusions they reach in their respective research work. Finally, the third workshop will moreover include a pooling of conclusions reached by the students with the clear objective of identifying weaknesses in training and for proposing improvement measures. This activity will take place during the first year for full-time students and during the first two years for part-time students.
This activity corresponds with competencies CB11, CB13, CB14, CB15, CB16, CA02, CA03, and CA04.
In addition to the required attendance at the aforementioned workshops, the individual responsible for the activity will evaluate the paper, poster, or communication presented by each student, pondering whether it is suited to the scientific structure and methodology of university research itself.
6. SPECIALIZED SEMINARS (36 hours)
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There will be a series of seminars in the doctoral program, imparted by prestigious national and international researchers/specialists, on some of the program's very fields of research. This activity will have a uniform structure in that all of its sessions consist of a lecture that is followed by a round for debate and participation by all students. Participation in these types of scientific debates offers students an extraordinary possibility to resolve and raise scientific concerns in order to seek proper solutions to their research dissertation.
The design and schedule of these meetings will be published at the beginning of each semester (during the months of September and February, respectively) indicating the entire list of seminars planned for such period. Students must attend at least 10 hours of seminars each academic year. This activity corresponds with competencies CB11, CB12, CB13, CB14, CB15, CB16, CA02, CA04, CA05, and CA06.
At the end of each year, students must hand in a summary of the seminars they have attended to the individual responsible for the activity wherein they will present a synopsis of the principle issues addressed by the speaker and discussed during the subsequent scientific debate. The length of each synopsis cannot exceed three pages per session.
7. STAYS AT RESEARCH CENTERS (120 hours)
Research center stays and participation by doctoral students at scientific meetings and congresses enrich their training and the projection of their work. This activity is presented as an opportunity to interact with other researchers to gain perspective and expand working networks in order to resolve research problems.
Mobility can include both national and international research centers, technological institutes, public organisms and institutions, and companies with R&D departments. In these cases, the academic relationships with other national or international institutions shall comply with the agreements the UMH has signed with such institutions.
The objectives reached in this activity include:
a. Expanding research perspectives, subjecting new approaches in their work.
b. Generating a network of relationships that will help to carry out collaborative research for future publications.
c. Enriching investigative skills by working closely with diverse investigative personnel, something that is customary in the workplace.
This undoubtedly constitutes one of the most relevant actions performed by our doctoral students. We feel that their participation at national and international research centers, technological institutes, and leading organisms and public institutions in their respective scientific fields is especially important. This experience will permit the student to acquire a special analytical and critical capacity to define, understand, and address any problem in work settings in multi- and intercultural contexts.
Scheduling of this activity will be agreed upon by the student, the center receiving the student, and the thesis advisor prior to the visit. In this manner, the stay's effectiveness will be adequate.
The activity's official language will be English, and occasionally, others, if the particular situation of the stay so requires.
Full-time students will complete activity 4 during years 2 or 3, while part-time students will do so once during years 3, 4, or 5.
This activity corresponds with competencies CB13, CB14, CB15, CA03, CA04, and CA0.
To monitor this activity and guarantee the acquisition of these competencies, the student will prepare a brief proposal of the activities to carry out, specifying how they contribute to the acquisition of competencies related to the doctoral program and will justify the choice of the center and/or scientific meeting so the proposal may be previously approved by the advisor and tutor. This is then given to the doctoral program's Academic Committee for its ratification.
Finally, the student will prepare a report on the degree of progress, describing the aspects in their work that have undergone improvement. Such report will then be sent to the Academic Committee for its corresponding evaluation.