PhD

Cooperation with PhD programme on Sociology

The PhD programme on TA will start a cooperation with the PhD programme on Sociology from next year. In 2015-16, the Faculty of Social Sciences and Humanities (FCSH) will become the coordinator of the inter-university programme on Sociology together the Universities of Lisbon, Évora and Algarve.

National TA network (GrEAT)

The national TA network started in 2010 as GrEAT (study group on technology assessment) and has a webpage at https://avaliacaotecnologia.wordpress.com/

The members are the TA community involved in the PhD programme, and also all the other interested people as scholars, supervisors, members of the parliament,and so forth.

Programme structure

The PhD Programme on "Technology Assessment" is organised over a 4 year structure, and the training courses take place during the first 2 years, although during that period is supposed to start the research process leading to the final thesis.