JOINT INTERNATIONAL DOCTORATE IN SOCIAL REPRESENTATIONS, CULTURE AND COMMUNICATION

Department

Department of Communication and Social Research, Sapienza University of Rome

Main research activities/topics/projects

The International Joint PhD in Social Representations, Culture and Communication is an international, inter/trans-disciplinary and cross-sectoral PhD program aimed at advanced training in the social sciences. The Doctorate's area of interest lies at the intersection of Social Representation Theory, Cultural Studies and Communication Studies. 

 Research topics include: environmental sustainability and ecological transition, intercultural relations and changes in health and education, processes of democratization and construction of citizenship, diversity communication and inclusion, with a particular interest in the role of the media and innovation. The PhD promotes research on the symbolic and representational dimension at the base of these themes, through a plurality of investigation methods. 

Teaching: blended, online + winter and summer schools in presence

 Note: the Doctorate, coordinated by Sapienza, is jointly developed with the University of Iasi (Romania) and Pécs (Hungary). Moreover, the doctorate involves a consolidated network of prestigious professors affiliated to international Universities and Research Centres, including colleagues in Brazil at Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina e Universidade de Uberlandia

Working language

English

Duration in months (min-max)

PhD sandwich: 4-18