About us

Coordinator:

Malgorzata Lange

m.lange@uc.cl

Responsible for Accreditation and Follow-Up: Denisse Lassnibatt denisse.lassnibatt@uc.cl

Objectives:

• To support doctoral programs during their accreditation processes; to monitor the development plans of the programs.
• To promote and reinforce the strategies and mechanisms of the internationalization of doctoral students and their relationships with strategic partners.
• To provide support in the process of creating doctoral programs.

Areas of action:

• Instances of induction to the accreditation process.
• Supporting and monitoring of accreditation processes: accreditation as a continuous process rather than a highlight.
• Improving access to information for doctoral programs, especially in relation to agreements with international institutions.
• Increasing the use of existing co-tutoring agreements.
• Production of manuals and instructions to facilitate the processes of accreditation, co-guardianship management, agreements, creation of programs, and so on.
• Development of guidance material to support the Faculties with the documentation for the CNA. Good Practice Manual.
• Development of a Manual of Ethical Integrity in doctoral programs.

Objectives:

• Management of internal competitive funds for doctoral students (VRI scholarships, internships, etc.)
• Management of international competitive funds.
• Guidance and support for students to access financial opportunities for the development of their doctoral careers.

Contact us: concursosdoctorados@uc.cl

Areas of action

Funds:

• Internal scholarships
• Competitive funds

Coordinator: Cynthia Castillo  cycastillo@uc.cl

Assistant: María Inés Torres mariaines.torres@uc.cl

• This area advises programs and students about their curricular progress, graduation requirements, current regulations and study programs.
• Manages and coordinates the Transversal Skills Program (Programa de Habilidades Transversales) (PHT) composed of:
  • Workshops: Complementary training in addition to the study programs to develop transversal skills and knowledge.
  • English Courses: courses to improve the learning and proper use of English as a second language.
  • Data analysis of the student’s academic history to facilitate curricular monitoring and to ensure that they meet the required steps to graduate and to apply to the residency benefit.
• Documents and protocols
• Transversal Skills Workshops and English Courses

Coordinator: Claire Voisine cvoisine@uc.cl

Areas of action:

• Dissemination, management and monitoring of internationalization activities and opportunities at home and abroad
• Support to doctoral programs in the development of their internationalization strategy and link with international partners
• Production of manuals and instructions, organization of training instances to facilitate and improve the management of international agreements and co-supervision
  Improved access to information related to agreements with international institutions
• Development of orientation material and organization of talks aimed at international students to prepare and facilitate their arrival and integration into the UC community and in Chile
• Organization of Summer / Winter Schools and other instances of dissemination of UC doctoral training.
• Coordination of the participation of the UC doctoral community in international networks (U21, ODUCAL, etc …)

Coordinator: Alejandra Águila anaguila@uc.cl

Objetives

• Promote excellence in doctoral training.
• Install an Institutional policy for the direction of doctoral thesis.
• Develop support mechanisms for the development of the thesis for students and academics.

Areas of action

• Preparation and dissemination of the policy on the direction of doctoral thesis embodied in the
  documents: Guide to Support the Thesis Direction and Guiding Framework for a Good
  Coexistence in the Doctorate.
• Follow-up to the use of the thesis supervision support tools by the students.
  programs that join this initiative.
• Follow-up to the use of the thesis supervision support tools by the students.
  programs that join this initiative.
• Development and strengthening of workshops on doctoral thesis management for academics
  in alliance with CDDoc.
• Development and strengthening of activities to support the thesis process for students
  in alliance with CARA, Libraries, Student Health, etc.
• Preparation of support material related to the thesis process.
• Maintenance and updating of information on cloisters and students in the
  doctoral research.