PhD in Social Work
- One of a kind programme in Switzerland
- Open to students with a master degree in Social Work from a Swiss university of Applied Sciences or a master degree in Social Sciences, Law or Economics from a Swiss university
Information session - PhD Programme in Social Work
Thursday 30 November 2023
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Presentation
In partnership with the Universities of Applied Sciences and Arts (HES) this programme:
- Contributes to the interdisciplinary study of social problems, their developments and dynamics.
- Focuses on affected individuals, families, groups and communities and provides knowledge about their experiences, their constructions of meaning and their ways of dealing with disadvantage and exclusion.
- Engages in analysis and reflection on social action and creates - through evaluation and systematic intervention research - a scientific basis for evidence-based professional intervention and the development and innovation of social work offerings.
- Produces knowledge about social work organisations and contextualises them within the landscape of available services and in relation to the social security system.
Cohort 2023-2024
Cohort 2022-2023
Registration as doctoral candidate in Social Work
Procedure
- The doctoral candidate contacts ITTS management (Prof. Barbara Waldis) and sends his/her master's transcripts, his/her experience (courses, teaching, research projects, etc.) to be used for possible equivalences for 30 ECTS, a description of the thesis topic (one page maximum) as well as a potential indication of the choice of two thesis co-directors (UniNE + HES).
- He/she obtains a letter from the thesis co-directors confirming that they agree to supervise the thesis.
- The doctoral candidate sends to the Registration Office (Bureau des immatriculations) his/her registration file with the requested documents as mentioned on the page Registration and Conditions → Doctorate.
- The doctoral candidate commits to signing the doctoral charter with both thesis co-directors. A copy is sent to ITTS management.
- A pedagogical contract is established after discussion with ITTS management. The parties signing the contract are: the dean of the FSE, ITTS management and both thesis co-directors. This pedagogical contract is signed no later than September 1st.
Doctoral programme and course descriptions
Doctoral programme
Course descriptions 2023-2024
- Starting a PhD thesis, entering the PhD process, scientific writing
- Social work research methods: developping a PhD project
- Social work theories: epistemologies, classics and current issues
- Social work theories: decolonizing social work
- Research design in social sciences: a question of coherence
- Qualitative and mixed methods in social work & social sciences
- Quantitative research methodologies in social work & social sciences
Course descriptions 2022-2023
- Starting a PhD, entering the PhD process, scientific writing
- Social work research methods: developing a PhD project
- Social work theories: epistemologies, classics and current issues
- Research design for social work research
- Social work theories: decolonizing social work
- Qualitative and mixed methods in social work & social sciences
- Quantitative Methods Research for Social Work and Social Sciences (Block 1)
- Quantitative Methods Research for Social Work and Social Sciences (Block 2)
PhD programme at the ITTS
Important documents
Partnership
Universities of Applied Sciences and Arts (HES)
HES-SO
- Social Work
- Doctorat (BADOC) In French