Dean’s Message

The University of Saint Joseph in Macau is a hub of multicultural innovation, inheriting centuries of Macau’s history in-between Asia, Europe and the Lusophone world, embracing more than 40 nationalities among professors, students and university staff. Our Doctoral Programme fosters a multi-disciplinary, inter-disciplinary and trans-disciplinary research environment, supported by an academic team with solid backgrounds in their specialist fields.

Transdisciplinarity aims at integrating the natural, social and health sciences in a humanities context and transcending their traditional boundaries to resolve real-world and complex problems by providing different perspectives on problems to reach holistic descriptive answers to comprehensive research questions.

Doctoral students, being an indispensable part of this inspiring environment, are thus, invited to come on board and take part in this extraordinary voyage of discovering the world through scientific questioning and systematic research while being fully aware that our success as a Doctoral Programme and Research Community can only be accomplished with your active participation and enthusiasm.

On behalf of the Doctoral Programme, we are looking to welcome you to USJ!

Mission 

To promote multidisciplinary, interdisciplinary, and transdisciplinary research training, integrating the natural, social, and health sciences disciplines in a humanities context and transcending their traditional boundaries to resolve real-world and complex problems by providing different perspectives on problems, we aim to reach holistic descriptive answers to comprehensive research questions to serve the local, regional, and global community.

Vision

To be the leading provider of high-quality multidisciplinary, interdisciplinary, and transdisciplinary research training in Macau and the region and to promote societal, community and personal well-being.

USJ Doctoral Programme Student Handbook
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Doctoral Programmes

The USJ Doctoral School offers a doctoral programme that is a research-oriented degree aimed at developing advanced theoretical and practical research skills in a specific area of knowledge. Doctoral candidates complete main modules in research methods and foundation knowledge in their proposed research field (1 Year) and then work with a supervisor to complete their doctoral thesis (2 to 4 Years).

Doctoral candidates are expected to develop original scientific work that contributes to a significant theoretical advance in the field. The doctoral programme’s main objective is to prepare highly qualified professionals capable of developing R&D activities in private and public organisations or to develop an academic career.

The first cohort of the USJ doctoral programme at USJ started their journey in 2007, and since then, a focus on research excellence has been part of the University’s academic Life. The USJ doctoral programme has graduated more than 40 students, and all doctoral theses concluded since 2011 are publicly available on the Doctoral Thesis page.

USJ’s Doctoral School also offers a co-tutele programme with partner universities such as the University of Western São Paulo (UNOESTE) – Education, in Brazil. To find out more, please contact doctoral@usj.edu.mo.