Aim of the Activity Report

The Doctoral Programme Activity Report is the personal research-related learning activities control register, which will be updated regularly by the doctoral counsellor and thesis supervisor, and assessed by the Academic Committee in charge of the programme. Each doctoral candidate will record and provide evidence to this document concerning completed activities, of interest to their development as a researcher, which must be endorsed by their supervisor (or co-supervisors) and counsellor and authorised, where necessary, by the Academic Committee. Every year, the Programme’s Academic Committee will assess the development of every doctoral candidate’s Doctoral Thesis Research Plan and the Record of Activities, together with the reports that the counsellor and thesis supervisor must issue. Positive annual assessment will be an essential requirement for continuing on the Programme. With this purpose, the panel assessing the thesis will have the doctoral candidate’s Annual Activity Report. This document will not lead to a quantitative score, but will be a qualitative assessment instrument that will complement the assessment of the doctoral thesis (Royal Decree 99/2011, 28 January 2011). The type of activities included in the Activity Report are all those that are of value to the development of the doctoral candidate’s research skills. These include research seminars, courses, workshops, conferences, doctoral conferences, research stays, publications, participation in research projects, consultations and interviews with experts, etc. It is not so important to make a very long list of activities, but rather that they be truly relevant and significant for the research development of the doctoral candidate himself and that of the doctoral thesis in progress. All activities should be to the extent possible duly documented to prove their nature and authenticity. During the first year of participation in the Programme, a list of activities associated with the research to be carried out will be drawn up that will be extended and completed during the development of the doctoral thesis until its submission.