Ph.D.s aim to train researchers by providing them with the tools and skills needed to tackle highly qualified research activities in universities, public agencies, companies and corporations.
The University of Rome “Foro Italico” activated a Ph.D. program within the Department of Motor, Human and Health Sciences, which coordinates its educational, cultural and interdisciplinary activities and manages its joint activities.
The mission of the Ph.D. program in Human Movement and Sport Sciences is to train researchers capable of integrating the peculiarities of different disciplines related to the phenomenon of “human movement” in the areas of daily life, work, exercise and sport, education, and management, thus contributing to the promotion of health and improvement of quality of life.
The educational objectives of the Ph.D. are in the following areas:
- basic: study of the anatomo-physiological, biological and biochemical, cognitive and biomechanical responses of the service apparatus and study of the responses of the neuromuscular system to exercise;
- Sports: analysis of motor and sports performance and training methodology;
- of health: design of original sports activity programs for health and physical efficiency; use of exercise as therapy for special populations; development of expertise in preventing and combating doping;
- psycho-pedagogical: study of sports pedagogy, training of physical education teachers and coaches, special sports pedagogy, study of autism and motor and sports activity, analysis of motivational, cognitive, emotional, and sociological processes that influence sports experience and performance, and lifestyle choices related to physical activity;
- managerial: developing skills for the promotion and management of research in the field of sports, including the new field of E-sport.
Access to the Ph.D. program is gained after obtaining a master’s degree (or an equivalent foreign degree) and passing an annually announced public selection.
The Ph.D. program lasts three years and concludes with a public discussion and the award of the title of Doctor of Philosophy, equivalent to the title of Ph.D (Philosophiae Doctor).
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