9th Doctoral Students Conference 2024

The International Doctoral School of the UM (EIDUM), together with the International Doctoral School of the UPCT (EINDOC) and the Mare Nostrum Campus (CMN), organize the IX International Doctoral Conference 2024 on the 10th, 11th and 12th of June 2024. This conference is aimed at doctoral students from the UM and UPCT as well as other Spanish or foreign universities which may be interested in participating. Some of the activities that will take place during the conference include plenary lectures, workshops and presentation of papers (oral communications) from different research areas.

As part of EIDUM doctoral academic program, the event has the following aims:

• To encourage PhD students to share their ideas and research experiences, promoting debate and communication among students and teachers.
• To discuss the current problems of PhD students in the different research areas.
• To disseminate research results to all PhD students, members of the university community, companies and society.
• To develop the students’ ability to present and disseminate research results from their doctoral theses.
• To promote PhD students’ creativity and research skills.
• To highlight the value of a PhD to enter the job market.

Deadlines 

Click here for access to the Application for Registration/Submission

Submission of proposals is opened from 1^st March till 1^st May 2024. 

Registration is opened from 1^st March till 1^st May 2024. 

The venue for this year will be the Centro Social Universitario y the Aulario Norte (see Campus Map).

The invited plenary speakers will be:

Click HERE to download maps with room locations.

Policy

For practical purposes, it should be taken into account that:

1. The UMU-UPCT-CMN Doctoral Seminar constitute a forum for scientific communication and debate where doctoral students present the final or preliminary results emanating from their recent original doctoral research. For this reason participation with a presentation is mostly advisable for students in their final years of the doctoral program they are taking.
2. The Doctoral Conference of the UMU-UPCT have curricular acknowledgement like any national scientific conference.
3. They can be presented individually or co-authored with their doctoral thesis supervisor(s) if they agree so and consider it as convenient (one presentation per doctoral student).

Certificate of Attendance: attendance to more than half the sessions will be necessary to get the activity validated and hence the certificate of attendance. For this purpose, an attendance control will be established in each session.

Certificates of Participation: they can be obtained for oral presentations and will be issued independently. 

The LANGUAGE of participation can be Spanish or English, except for the EUniWell sessions, which are only in English.

The Conference is ONSITE, and exceptionally only online video-participations will be allowed by zoom for very justified reasons:

1. Be conducting a research stay authorized by the Academic Committee of your Doctoral Program with the Mobility Protocol registered at EIDUM.
2. Currently residing in a foreign country.

Online video-participation can only be applied for once your proposal has been accepted by the Scientific Committee, and must be processed through the address <jdoctorado@um.es> attaching a copy of the Mobility Protocol registered at EIDUM and/or copy of registration of residency in a foreign country currently and of your passport.

As the Doctoral Conferences are organized every year, applications for online video-participation will not be accepted for doctoral students who are still enrolled in their first academic year.

The fact of submitting a proposal for communication or poster implies the acceptance of these rules and conditions.

Click here for access to the Application for Registration/Submission.

See overview and delailed Programme HERE.

Submission of Proposals

The categories for proposals are two:

• Individual papers are formal presentations on original research by one or more authors, lasting a total of 15 minutes (10 minutes for presentation and 5 minutes for discussion). Please note that the time limit will be strictly adhered to. The length of abstracts for individual papers is max 800 words.
• Poster sessions are for displaying research and they offer the opportunity for individualised informal discussions. Poster is a good format for presenting work-in-progress, fieldwork and results of empirical research when data can be presented visually (e.g. charts, graphs, tables). A block of time will be designated when presenters are available to discuss their posters. The length of abstracts for posters is max 800 words.

Additionally, there will be some satellite activities organised complementarily by the Alliance G-9 of Spanish Universities.

Norms for submission of proposals

In order to submit a contribution (communication or poster proposal), you must first create an account in our Conference Conftool Application. When doing the submission, you must select one of the following topics from the list:

UMU

• Artes y Humanidades: Bellas Artes, Literatura, Teología, Traducción e Interpretación y Lingüística General e Inglesa
• Filosofía
• Historia, Geografía e Historia del Arte: Sociedad, Territorio y Patrimonio
• Biodiversidad y Gestión Ambiental
• Biología Molecular y Biotecnología
• Biología Vegetal
• Ciencias Forenses
• Electroquímica, Ciencia y Tecnología
• Enología, Viticultura y Sostenibilidad
• Física de la Materia Condensada, Nanociencia y Biofísica
• Matemáticas
• Química Básica y Aplicada
• Química Teórica y Modelización Computacional
• Bioderecho: Bioética, Salud y Derechos Humanos
• Ciencia Política y Administración Pública
• Ciencias de la Actividad Física y del Deporte
• Ciencias de la Empresa
• Criminología
• Derecho
• Economía
• Educación
• Gestión de la Información y de la Comunicación en las Organizaciones
• Sociedad, Desarrollo y Relaciones Laborales
• Tecnología Educativa
• Trabajo Social 
• Biología y Tecnología de la Salud Reproductiva
• Ciencias de la Salud
• Ciencias de la Visión 
• Ciencias Veterinarias
• Envejecimiento y Fragilidad
• Integración y Modulación de Señales en Biomedicina
• Marie Sklodowska-Curie en Biología y Tecnología de la Salud Reproductiva
• Psicología
• Salud, Discapacidad, Dependencia y Bienestar
• Tecnología de los Alimentos, Nutrición y Bromatología
• Informática

UPCT

• Técnicas Avanzadas en la Investigación y Desarrollo Agrario y Alimentario
• Energías Renovables y Eficiencia Energética
• Tecnologías Industriales
• Electroquímica, Ciencia y Tecnología
• Tecnologías de la Información y las Comunicaciones
• Economía (Programa DEcIDE)
• Ciencias Económicas, Empresariales y Jurídicas
• Tecnología y Modelización en Ingeniería Civil, Minera y Ambiental
• Administración y Dirección de Empresas
• Arquitectura, Patrimonio y Ciudad

G-9 Activities

• Arts & Humanities
• Medicine
• Sciences
• Social Sciences & Law
• Engineering & Arquitechture

Once you receive our response with the acceptance of your proposal after its evaluation by the Scientific Committee, then you can proceed to register for the Conference also through the same Conference Conftool Application, where you created an account to submit your contribution, and the period will be open until May 1st

COMMUNICATIONS will have the following duration and structure characteristics:

• Duration: The maximum time of the presentation will be 10 minutes with an additional five minutes for discussion with the attendees (except those of the EUniWell Workshops, which will be 15 minutes plus 5 minutes for discussion). They will be scheduled in the Programme for this purpose according to the established timing.
• Structure: The sequencing of your presentation should respond to the following aspects (depending on the experimental, descriptive or analytical nature of your research): first, refer to a theoretical framework and the state of the art (rationale), then its objectives, then its materials and methods used, results (foreseeable or already obtained), discussion and conclusions.

POSTERS will have the following characteristics of size and structure:

• Size: maximum 'DIN A0' (841 x 118.9 mm) and vertical design.
• Structure:
  • TITLE:
  • AUTHOR(S): In the case of more than one author of the research, the doctoral student must appear first. Next, the rest of authors and their professional affiliation (Department and University or, where appropriate, Research Center). The tutor and supervisor(s) of the thesis must also be specified.
  • ABSTRACT: Brief summary of the work.
  • OBJECTIVES: Objective of the work, which can be formulated separately or in the summary.
  • MATERIALS AND METHODS
  • RESULTS
  • CONCLUSIONS
  • REFERENCES
  • Graphics, tables and figures will be inserted between text.

They will be exhibited in panels during the sessions scheduled in the Programme for this purpose according to the established timing.

Recommendations for the design of a poster:

1. Do not enter excessive information.
2. Use diagrams, graphs, figures, photos, etc.
3. Use a relatively large font size.