Annual PhD review

Once admitted to the doctoral program, you must formalize a registration each academic year (including a registration for the deposit of the doctoral thesis when the deposit is made as of the 1st October), in order to be certified as a doctoral student. The subject you will be registering for is called annual review, which evaluates the training achieved during the course and the progress of the preparation of the doctoral thesis.

For this reason, the academic committee of the doctoral program publishes each academic year a call for follow-up (check your doctoral program's website, section Review and Thesis), in which a committee made up of three doctors evaluates your progress of the research plan, the development of the document of activities and a report of the director of thesis and the academic tutor. In this report, the director and the academic tutor of the thesis inform, at least, if you have followed the agreed pattern regarding the number of meetings established between yourself and the thesis supervisor and if you have carried out the planned training activities for the academic year.

In exceptional cases (research stays or fieldwork), the Doctoral Commission, with a prior report from the academic committee of the doctoral program, may authorize replacing the oral and face-to-face presentation of the annual follow-up with another format.

To know the date for this evaluation, please contact your doctoral program. 

Failure to submit to an annual follow-up without justification leads to the definitive drop in the doctorate program, since the positive evaluation of the follow-up is an essential requirement so that you can continue in the doctorate program and enroll the following course. If the evaluation of the annual follow-up is negative, you will be re-evaluated in a maximum of six months and, when required, a new research plan will be submitted. 

If you pass the follow-up in this call, the School for Doctoral Studies will enroll you in the next course during the current academic year with no cost. We will let you know once done. However, if the new evaluation is negative, the Doctoral Commission (CAPD), after hearing the doctoral student, will issue a reasoned report and propose the Standing Committee (JPED) the definitive drop in the doctorate program. Against the act of negative qualification, the doctoral student can present allegations to the Standind Committee within fifteen working days from the communication of the result of the evaluation. Against the resolution of the JPED, the doctoral student can file an appeal before the rector.

For the preparation of the thesis you should take into account:

• If the thesis is requested to be presented and defended in a language other than Catalan, Spanish or English. The application must be submitted together with the reports of the director(s) and the tutor, if any, and authorization of the Doctoral Study Commission whenever the requirements are met.
• If the thesis is requested to be presented by compendium of publications. The request must be made and the articles and / or publications must be submitted, together with the mandatory reports of the director(s) and the tutor, if any, and the authorization of the Doctoral Study Commission. This request must be authorized by the corresponding commission of the UAB whenever it meets the requirements.
• If the thesis is requested to be presented in co-supervision. The application must be made and the signed agreement and annex must be submitted, together with the mandatory reports of the director(s) and the tutor and the authorization of the Doctoral Study Commission. 
• If the thesis is requested to be presented for the International Doctor Mention, please check this link.

The UAB offers you online information about intellectual property and open access to the theses and for any other work.

The website Intellectual Property and Open Access contains a collection of frequently asked questions that provide information on intellectual property and open access, of an advisory nature and that can not be considered, in any case, legal advice by the Autonomous University of Barcelona. You can access by doing a search in the box or browsing the thematic folders.