The main goal of our PhD in Educational Sciences is to provide knowledge on research in the educational sciences field, prepare students for this activity, and develop the skills needed to carry out research in this area. The main fields of the research activities of our doctoral school are the historical and theoretical perspectives of education, examination of teaching and learning processes, neuropedagogy, reading literacy, educational sociology, romology, and education of minorities. We expect students who are motivated to research these fields and intend to work in this research community.

The Ph.D. with a major in Education is a theory and practice-rich research degree where students will address significant issues and professional practice within a particular concentration. The program will prepare research-literate individuals for careers in a variety of educational and professional contexts which increasingly base their inquiries on research-based studies.

The Doctor of Education programme features a high-level academic study of a range of educational and professional issues, tutored units and a supervised research component that will enable you to make a contribution to knowledge through unit assignments, and through the dissertation focus on the interplay and relationship between professional practice and scholarship. The course will enable students to become efficiently equipped with all the necessary skills and knowledge in order to advance in international organisations and achieve positive results when operating in executive positions. Each Doctoral student must take a number of online modules and also complete a dissertation. Students must defend their dissertation in a "viva voce" (oral) examination which can be completed online. The viva-voce examination is an intense and challenging experience, but we offer relevant guidance and support to help our research students prepare for this important milestone.

Research into education policy draws on a diversity of intellectual traditions, including critical social policy, poststructuralist theories of governance, feminism, theories of identity and cultural studies.

The doctorate has a duration of six semesters, within which the regular academic activities are located, consisting on the one hand, in attendance and participation in seminars and workshops one day of the week, with parallel work independently during the rest of the year. week, aimed at ensuring that the student acquires both a solid training in the general knowledge of the discipline and in the specific knowledge of his field of interest and on the other, the realization of a research project that culminates in the degree thesis. The study plan is structured around three training axes: a) Theoretical b) Methodological for Research c) Complementary activities. It also includes four fields of knowledge granted by the referents to conform both the general and the specific contents: I. Teaching II. Management and Educational Policies III. Education and Cultural Diversity IV. Pedagogical Knowledge. The curricular development presents levels of sequential and increasing complexity that allow facilitating the understanding of the phenomena and their necessary theoretical-practical articulation of the educational process, framed in a conception of Curricular Flexibility. It seeks to prepare and induce applicants to the problematization of the current state of education in Mexico, to propose as an object of study one of the problems chosen in a preliminary research project, carried out in a coherent and clear manner, with the pertinent drafting elements. All the skills, tools, and competencies acquired during the Propedeutic Module will be basic for the subsequent development of Seminars and Workshops of the Study Plan.