Rights and duties of tutors and supervisors
Tutor
The tutor is responsible for ensuring that the doctoral student's training and research activity comply with the principles of the programme and the Doctoral School.
The Academic Committee of the programme will assign each doctoral student a tutor, who may or may not be the supervisor, and who will be responsible for ensuring the doctoral student's interaction with the Academic Committee and their supervisor, where applicable.
The Academic Committee, after consulting the tutor, supervisor and doctoral student, may change the appointment of the assigned tutor at any time during the doctoral programme, provided there are justified reasons for doing so.
Rights
To be part of the Doctoral School, in accordance with the rules established in these regulations and in the academic regulations for doctoral studies at the University.
Academic recognition of their activities as a tutor within the framework of the University.
The right to withdraw from thesis supervision, provided there are justified reasons.
All those recognised in the legislation, the Statutes and the University's own regulations.
Duties
Assist their doctoral students in their training process, providing information, guidance and resources for learning, in close collaboration with the thesis supervisor.
Facilitate the configuration of the curriculum for their doctoral students.
Ensure that their doctoral students follow safe working practices in accordance with national legislation on occupational hazards.
Sign the written commitment establishing their supervisory duties for their doctoral students, in the form established by the University.
Sign their commitment to comply with the School's code of good practice.
Regularly review the document detailing the activities of their doctoral students and validate duly justified activities.
Periodically report on and endorse the research plan of their doctoral students.
Attend to the needs of their doctoral students with disabilities, in accordance with the guidelines established by the University.
All obligations established in general legislation, in the regulations of the Autonomous Community and in the Statutes and regulations of the University of Zaragoza.
Supervisor
The thesis supervisor is ultimately responsible for overseeing all of the doctoral student's research tasks, ensuring the consistency and suitability of the training activities, the impact and novelty of the doctoral thesis topic in its field, and providing guidance on planning and, where appropriate, ensuring that it is consistent with other projects and activities in which the doctoral student is involved.
Thesis supervisors must be PhD holders, either Spanish or foreign, with proven research experience and exceptions from the entry into force of RD 576/2023, of 4 July.
The Academic Committee of the programme will assign each doctoral student a thesis supervisor, who may or may not be the tutor.
The thesis may have another supervisor, who must meet the same requirements established for thesis supervisors in that doctoral programme.
Exceptionally, the Doctoral Committee may authorise a thesis to be co-supervised by three supervisors, when there are academic reasons for doing so, such as interdisciplinary topics or programmes developed in national or international collaboration. The justification for triple supervision, signed by the three supervisors, must be submitted to the Academic Committee, which, once approved, will forward it together with the proposal for supervisors for approval by the Doctoral Committee.
The Academic Committee, after hearing the tutor, supervisor and doctoral student, may modify the appointment of a doctoral student's thesis supervisor at any time during the doctoral programme, provided there are justified reasons.
Rights
To be part of the Doctoral School, in accordance with the rules established in these regulations and in the academic regulations for doctoral studies at the University.
Academic recognition of their activities as a supervisor within the University.
Resignation from thesis supervision, provided there are justified reasons.
Participation in training activities for thesis supervisors that may be offered by the EDUZ in order to responsibly fulfil their supervisory duties towards their doctoral students.
All those recognised in the legislation, statutes and regulations of the University.
Duties
Provide doctoral students with the appropriate scientific environment and resources.
Assign doctoral students activities that are exclusively related to their status as researchers in training.
Ensure that their doctoral students follow safe working practices in accordance with national legislation on occupational hazards.
Ensure that their doctoral students take the necessary measures to comply with legal requirements regarding data protection and confidentiality.
Ensure that their doctoral candidates are aware of the strategic objectives governing their field of activity and the funding mechanisms. They shall also ensure that all necessary permissions are sought before work begins or access is granted to the resources provided.
Ensure that doctoral students are aware of and comply with the conditions relating to copyright.
Sign the Doctoral Student Charter, a document that establishes the supervisory duties of their doctoral students.
Sign their commitment to comply with the School's code of good practice.
Regularly review their doctoral students' activity reports and validate duly justified activities.
Inform and endorse, on a regular basis, the research plan of their doctoral students.
Attend to the needs of their doctoral students with disabilities, in accordance with the guidelines established by the University.
All obligations established in general legislation, in the regulations of the Autonomous Community and in the Statutes and regulations of the University of Zaragoza.
Endorse the stays and activities necessary to obtain the ‘International Doctorate’ designation.
Issue a final report for the submission of the thesis.
Agree on the date for the reading of the doctoral thesis with the panel within the established deadlines.