Research topics

The programme has been designed to deepen the critical and logical-argumentative skills of PhD students, while enhancing their knowledge of the history of philosophy. The interdisciplinary character of knowledge is also strengthened, considering the thematic interfaces with the other curricula of the PhD programme.

PhD students in Philosophy will carry out original research - which requires skills of conceptual analysis, argumentation, historical and philological documentation - in the fields of theoretical philosophy, moral philosophy, political and social philosophy, philosophy of language, aesthetics, history of medieval, modern and contemporary philosophy

Contact: 
Prof. Italo Testa 
italo.testa@unipr.it 

As part of the PhD programme in Philosophical, Social, Cultural Heritage and Environmental Sciences, the curriculum in Social and Anthropological Sciences investigates the transformations of contemporary society considering ongoing social, cultural and environmental processes at national and international level.

The curriculum emphasises qualitative methodologies and encourages diversified and interconnected perspectives and themes, including mobility and migration, sustainability, social and affective relations, cosmologies, religions and consciousness, social movements, gender, borders and frontiers, educational practices and pathways, processes of patrimonialisation and (de)colonisation.

Contact 
Prof. Giancarlo Anello 
giancarlo.anello@unipr.it 

The Educational Sciences curriculum is designed to introduce research in all pedagogical areas (GSD 11/PAED-01, 11/PAED-02), including cultural geography (GEOG-01/A). It emphasises methodological aspects and interdisciplinary connections with other PhD curricula, tailoring the training pathway according to each student's research project.

More specifically, training on pedagogical theory and epistemology will engage in dialogue with the philosophical disciplines; on the history and cultures of education with the historical and literary area of the PhD in Historical and Textual Sciences; training in didactics and special pedagogy with the artistic area (museum didactics) and with the socio-anthropological area for the topics of school and social inclusion, mediation and marginality and deviance; training in research methodology and social statistics will relate to all the curricula for the appropriate definition of research designs and the analysis of the data collected. The curriculum's interdisciplinary vocation will be constituted by other aspects, including the themes of educational spaces, landscape and environmental education. Disciplinary didactics will be complemented by transversal modules, offered to the entire doctoral school, relating to scientific communication, participation in conferences and competitive calls, and training in innovative didactics in schools and universities.

Contact:
Prof. Luana Salvarani
luana.salvarani@unipr.it  

The Art History, Music and Performing Arts curriculum is designed to equip PhD students with the necessary skills and knowledge to analyse, preserve and enhance cultural heritage, encompassing both tangible and intangible forms.

Through the study and research in the history of art, theatre, cinema, television, photography, new media and musicology, museology and the history of collecting, librarianship and archives, aesthetics, cultural heritage legislation, and also thanks to the interaction with other PhD curricula, PhD students will carry out original research with a strong interdisciplinary character, enabling them to deepen their knowledge of artistic and cultural production, expanding the horizons of knowledge towards a more cohesive and sustainable future.

Contact:
Prof. Cristina Casero
cristina.casero@unipr.it