It is a necessary requirement to join the program and supervise, co-supervise, or co-tutor doctoral theses to meet and demonstrate the following criteria:

• Holding a PhD degree and working as a lecturer and researcher at a University or Higher Research Center.
• Being engaged in the research line of the program, having availability for supervision, and not having been admonished for misconduct regarding good practices in doctoral thesis supervision.
• Providing a suitability report in the research field that justifies having at least one research segment recognized by a national accreditation agency. In the Spanish case, CNEAI. This requirement is applicable in any case and country, provided that there is such an accreditation agency and access to accreditation is possible.
• In cases where the previous point is not applicable, to join the program as an EXTERNAL COLLABORATOR, justification of suitability must be provided by presenting five articles in the thesis research line published in indexed journals that meet the requirements set by CNEAI for accreditation of a research segment in the corresponding area:

1. Two articles with impact factor in JCR or three in SCImago Journal Rank (SJR) or categorized as EX or A in CIRC.
2. Contributions in journals accredited by FECYT, categorized as B in CIRC, or in the first tercile of In-Recs, H Index of Spanish Social Science Journals.
3. Books published by top-tier research publishers (first tercile of SPI or Book Citation Index) also serve the purpose.
4. Directing (as principal investigator) research projects I+D or higher will be considered as a quality criterion.

• The doctoral program is open to the inclusion of high-level researchers, both on a permanent or partial basis (only to supervise or co-supervise theses occasionally).

They must meet the requirements to supervise doctoral theses at the University of Granada (see previous point).

Membership in a Research Group of the Program's Research Lines or in a national or international research network on these topics is considered a preferential merit, as well as maintaining a productive research collaboration trajectory with the UGR (preferred research partners, providing reports as international experts, joint publications, etc.).

• Documents for Program Inclusion. The appropriate form must be completed (https://escuelaposgrado.ugr.es/doctorado/impresos) and sent to the International Postgraduate School (epdoctorado@ugr.es), with a copy to the program coordination:

PERMANENT TEACHING STAFF (WITH ACTIVE RESEARCH PERIODS): Application Form

EXTERNAL COLLABORATING TEACHING STAFF TO THE PROGRAM OR UGR (With the requirements to be able to supervise theses) Application Form

Tutoring in the Doctoral Program is considered an academic management activity of the faculty. This activity will be recognized for faculty in two different ways:

1. The following compensation will be included in the Teaching Plan: for each doctoral student tutored, the tutor will be compensated up to 0.1 credits per academic year, with this compensation applicable during the first three years in which the doctoral student is tutored. A maximum of 0.5 credits per tutor per academic year will be computed for this type of compensation. The introduction of compensation will occur in the following academic year to when the tutoring activity was conducted.
2. The tutoring activity will be certified to have an effect on the Quality Teaching Evaluation Program of the University of Granada (DOCENTIA-UGR) and in other programs or processes that may consider it as a merit.

For each supervised and defended doctoral thesis, up to 1.5 credits will be compensated to the supervisor in the following academic year after the thesis defense. In the case of co-supervision, these credits will be distributed equally among the different supervisors. A maximum of 3 credits per professor per academic year will be computed.

Additionally, thesis supervision activity will be counted in the Quality Teaching Evaluation Program of the University of Granada (DOCENTIA-UGR) and in other programs or processes that may consider it as a merit.

They will be published and updated for consultation in the “important notices” section of this website.