Doctoral schools and research units

Doctoral schools manage all matters related to doctorates. Each doctoral school comprises several research units centred around a specific research field.
Doctoral schools are in charge of recruiting, training and monitoring PhD candidates, as well as evaluating PhD viva voces. They organise courses and scientific activities for PhD candidates, and validate each candidate’s individual academic plan.

The Faculty’s scientific activities are organised by seven doctoral schools.

• Civilisations, cultures, literatures and societies
• Concepts and languages
• Geography
• History of art and archaeology
• Modern and contemporary history
• French and comparative literature
• Ancient and medieval worlds

 
These doctoral schools organise and schedule the scientific activities of over 30 research units, 8 of which are supported by the French National Centre for Scientific Research (CNRS).
These human-scale units are sensitive to the challenges of the contemporary world. They take part in numerous scientific events and organise around 100 events each year within the Faculty.
The wide disciplinary and thematic range covered by these scientific communities has established the Faculty of Arts and Humanities as a major institution in many fields.
 
Our doctoral schools in figures :

• 750 teacher-researchers
• 230 teachers
• 1500 PhD candidates
• 200 theses defended every year
• 40 accreditations to supervise research (habilitations à diriger des recherches – HDR) delivered every year