IN2PAST PhD Network

IN2PAST’s PhD Network is a consortium of PhD Programmes from the five universities which take part in the associate laboratory (AL), hosted by the research units (RUs) that compose it and accredited by Portuguese agency A3ES.

The Network offers an additional and unique curricular proposal, the participation in the associate lab’s annual doctoral school (Boot Camp) and access to IN2PAST Doctoral Studentships.

The Network’s main objective is to provide an integrated and multidisciplinary platform to support doctoral research by students who, being enrolled in the PhD programmes that make up the consortium, carry out their work in the areas of activity of IN2PAST.

Main objectives

1. Encourage PhD students to get in touch with specialists from different areas, with a view to gaining comprehensive and integrated knowledge

2. Offer a multi- and interdisciplinary knowledge experience, with a societal approach and a sustainability perspective

3. Ensure students’ access to specialised equipment and material, and technological resources

4. Promote the internationalisation of doctoral students

5. Provide opportunities for students to acquire professional skills that facilitate their transition into the labour market

1. Awarding IN2PAST Doctoral Studentships (depending on available budgetary resources)

2. Encouraging student participation in scientific events organised within the scope of the AL, the consortium’s PhD programmes and the AL’s RUs, allowing students to circulate according to the specificities of their thesis topics

3. Encouraging oral presentations or posters at national and international congresses, seminars and conferences, and the publication of original works (articles, books, book chapters)

1. Supervising team composed of at least two ‘integrated’ researchers from two IN2PAST RUs, according to the specificities of the thesis theme

2. Completion of at least one course unit (CU) offered by the IN2PAST PhD Network as part of a doctoral programme with which IN2PAST is associated

3. Taking part in at least one edition of the annual Boot Camp

Course Unit

‘Políticas e Práticas do Património. Artes, Território e Memória’

(Heritage Policies and Practices. Arts, Territory and Memory)

This optional course unit for the 2nd semester of 2025-2026 is provided online, with weekly sessions, between 6 and 8 p.m., and main objectives being:

  • To map the current state of the art in the field of heritage studies through research carried out within the framework of the RUs that make up IN2PAST;
  • To recognise the multidisciplinary nature of the field of heritage studies;
  • To develop critical perspectives on heritage policies and practices, particularly on processes of heritagisation and uses of memory;
  • To develop critical perspectives on artistic practices and intervention in the territory;
  • To identify the diversity of methodologies for analysis and intervention in the field of heritage and the arts;
  • To develop research work within the conceptual and methodological issues explored in depth in the CU.


CU description form at NOVA FCSH’s website

UPPER IMAGES Project 2LEGACY’s Workshop on Collection and Preparation of Clay, April 11 and 12, 2025, and artistic residency, July 2025, Estremoz © Inês Crujo and 2LEGACY | ‘Troubles with Primitivism’ exhibition, CIAJG, Guimarães, 1st IN2PAST Field Trip, September 28, 2024 © Rita Hasse Ferreira | 3rd IN2PAST Field Trip: ‘Getting to know Extremo, a living community laboratory’, Arcos de Valdevez, January 25th, 2025 © Rita Hasse Ferreira

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