III Aedean Doctoral Seminar University of Cantabria, 7 and 8 July 2022
Plenary sessions
The following scholars have agreed to organise two plenary sessions:
• Macarena García-Avello (Universidad de Cantabria) – “Writing in Question: Moving Forward the Dissertation Process”
Despite the numerous difficulties that it entails, academic writing is frequently approached as an instinctive and spontaneous process. The purpose of this session is to reflect critically, raising awareness of the different stages that we tend to carry out implicitly during the writing process underlying dissertations, articles, and academic writing in general. More specifically, I will draw on the American PhD system that includes Comprehensive Exams in order to engage in a writing strategy based on the identification of the significant questions that will prompt the articulation of the main thesis structure. This, in turn, will lead us toward an understanding of the writing process as intrinsically linked to the method of question and discovery, and facilitate generative, on-task writing to help move forward the dissertation process.
• Paula Rodríguez-Puente (Universidad de Oviedo) – “La carrera del Personal Docente e Investigador (PDI): el sistema español de plazas y acreditaciones”
En esta presentación se tratarán cuestiones que atañen a la carrera profesional del Personal Docente e Investigador de las universidades españolas. Más concretamente, se explicará cuál es el sistema de plazas y categorías profesionales, así como el modo de poder acceder a ellas a través de la consecución de las acreditaciones otorgadas por la Agencia Nacional de Evaluación de la Calidad y Acreditación (ANECA). A su vez, se detallarán los índices de calidad de las publicaciones que utiliza esta agencia. El objetivo principal es presentar una panorámica del característico sistema español que sirva de orientación a la carrera profesional de futuros doctores y doctoras.
Paper presentations
There will be some parallel sessions with papers on both Literature and Culture, and Linguistics.
Abstracts
Question and answer session
In addition to the plenary sessions and the paper presentations, the Q&A session will provide some basic information and guidance for all doctoral students with advice on writing and defending a thesis, and some reflections on the experience of doing a PhD.
