Qualification criteria

1. An eligible candidate for the Doctoral School in History must hold a Master’s degree or an equivalent degree in the Humanities or Social Sciences.
An eligible candidate must present a written consent of the potential supervisor from among the persons included in the list of supervisors on the UKEN Doctoral School website or another UKEN employee holding a professorial or postdoctoral degree. 

2. Possible subject areas for a PhD project include:

In philological studies (Polish, English, German, French, Russian):

• historical and contemporary linguistics
• normative linguistics
• cultural linguistics
• pragmalinguistics
• sociolinguistics
• theolinguidtics
• media linguistics
• onomastics in synchrony and diachrony
• teaching Polish as a foreign language
• confrontative linguistics
• translation studies
• translodidactics
• glottodidactics
• linguistics of specialised texts (e.g. legilingusitics)
• discourse analysis

In logopedics:

• theory and practice of speech disorders
• theory and practice of language competence in normal speech and disorders
• diagnosis and therapy of child language development
• acquisition and breakdown of a language system
• bi- and multilingualism (when one of the language is Polish, and second – English, German, French, Italian, Russian)
• linguistic experimental research
• psycholinguistics
• neurolinguistics

3. The recruitment procedure is competitive. Points are assigned for each stage of the evaluation process:

a) A research proposal (0-15 pts.), which may be an outline of the prospective PhD dissertation. Once a candidate has been accepted to doctoral school, it is acceptable to change the topic of research project proposed by the candidate consisting only of modification of its form and scope (e.g. widening or narrowing the area of research/corpus of analysed texts), while the essence should remain unchanged. The project should therefore concern issues in the field of Polish linguistics or foreign philology (English, German, Romance, Russian), or issues in the field of speech therapy.

The project should be written in Polish or English (only for foreigners) and should be no less than 10,000 and no more than 20,000 characters in length (including spaces and bibliography).

The project is assessed by two reviewers appointed by the Chairperson of the Recruitment Committee from among academics authorised to promote doctoral students specialising in the subject matter to which the submitted research project relates. The maximum mark for the research project is 15 points. The average of points granted by each of the reviewers in the following categories constitutes a final evaluation of the project:

• formulating the research problems (0-3 pts.)
• knowledge of the current state of research (0-3 pts.)
• proposed research methodology (0-3 pts.)
• originality and cognitive significance (0-3 pts.)
• feasibility and importance of the project (0-3 pts.)

b) An interview (0-20 pts.), the aim of which is to verify  the candidate’s competence and research interests in relation to the proposed project as well as their general knowledge in the selected discipline. The interview may be conducted in Polish or, if you are a foreign candidate, in English. The final evaluation of the interview is the average of points awarded by each member of the Selection Committee in the following categories:

• oral presentation of the research project (without a multimedia presentation) (0-5 pts.)
• justification of the project, its objective and methodology (0-5 pts.)
• taking part in an academic discussion (0-5 pts.)
• general knowledge in the discipline (0-5 pts.)

Candidates will be asked to justify their choice of the University of the National Education Commission, Krakowas the center for education in the Doctoral School. The argumentation may refer to research in the field conducted at this university or, in  case of foreigners, to leading works of Polish researchers in the field.

c) Evaluation of scholarly activity in the discipline (0-7 pts.):

• scientific publications: 0 - 3 pts, 
• active work in a scientific circle: 0 - 1 pts, 
• participation in an international or national scientific conference with a paper delivered: 0 - 1 pts, 
• National, foreign or scholarship internship (at least 7 days): 0 - 1 pts, 
• academic awards or prizes, significant translation activity, significant activity in the popularisation of language knowledge: 0 - 1 pts. 

If at least one of the above achievements is considered by the Commission to be outstanding, it is entitled to award the candidate the full range of points (7 points). 

For publications, submission of relevant certificates / confirmations and printouts is required.