| Academic Year | 2020-2021 |
|---|---|
| Subject area | Humanistic Studies |
| Cycle | 36 |
| Coordinator | Prof. Stefano Benazzi |
| Language | English, Italian |
| Duration | 3 years |
| Positions | 17 positions. More information in the PhD Programme Table |
| Application deadline | May 21, 2020 at 01:00 PM (Expired) |
| Enrolment period | From Jul 08, 2020 to Jul 17, 2020 |
| Doctoral programme start date | Nov 01, 2020 |
- Operating centre
- Ravenna
- Main Department
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Department of Cultural Heritage - DBC
- Associated Departments
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Department of Architecture - DADepartment of Chemistry "Giacomo Ciamician" - CHIMDepartment of Legal Studies - DSGDepartment of Biological, Geological, and Environmental Sciences - BiGeADepartment of Civil, Chemical, Environmental, and Materials Engineering - DICAMDepartment of Physics and Astronomy "Augusto Righi" - DIFADepartment of Computer Science and Engineering - DISI
- Research topics
Curriculum A: Cultural and environmental heritage: memory, protection, rights
- Cultural heritage: Historic, social, economic, and cultural processes in European, Mediterranean, and Western Asian contexts; public history; conservation of ethno-cultural heritage and management of cultural resources in endangered areas
- Environment, objects, and rights: diagnostic analysis of monumental and portable artefacts of historical interest; musealisation through digital and virtual modelling; promoting the appreciation and use of bio-environmental goods as common goods; legal and regulatory consequences.
- Environment and landscape, cities and architecture: tools for the analysis and conservation of the environment, biological and anthropological heritage, archaeology, urban settings, industrial archaeology, consolidation and restoration of historical architecture; the historical relationship between urban areas and their territories, sustainable development of tourism, fruition of historic towns.
- Governance and management of common goods: risk assessment and risk management, efficient use of resources, definition and quantification of ecosystemic service value, assessment of natural resource consumption and of production of solid, liquid, and gaseouse waste.
Curriculum B: Science and Technologies for Cultural Heritage
- Production techniques, material characterization, state of conservation
- Development of: advanced analytical protocols (spectroscopy, immune chemistry, DFT, chemometrics), micro and non-invasive diagnostic methods, intervention methods on humidity phenomena of historical buildings, interaction with pollutants, tomographic systems (digital radiography, X-Ray computer tomography, software for real-time tomography and 3D rendering
- Development of innovative restoration materials and methods
- Design, development, testing and performance evaluation of innovative materials (nanomaterials, polymers, biopolymers, composite materials) and methods for the consolidation, cleaning and protection of both movable and immovable cultural heritage
- Survey, monitoring and representation technologies: definition of protocols and standards for the production of 3D contents aimed at monitoring cultural heritage, methods and protocols for the production of 3D models with semantic structure to be applied to cognitive systems, design of web-based application for the archiving and use of technical-scientific data related to conservation and restoration projects, production contents and design of augmented reality systems, efficient workflows, survey and monitoring multiscale integrated techniques integrated by topographic, photogrammetric, laser scanner and special positioning, UAV survey for data management, acquisition with multispectral sensors and scanners, GIS applications, 3D models (development of new procedures for the collection and optimal elaboration, ICT methodologies and techniques for the creation, analysis and representation (virtual reality and augmented/mixed reality) and multi sensorial interaction by means of digital data.
- Job opportunities and potential areas of employment
- In addition to preparing young researchers who can successfully gain and maintain a position in the competitive framework of international and national research (both inside and outside academia), Doctors who have completed the present programme will be given higher-level notions that will develop their professional skills in an integrated scheme encompassing cultural and environmental resource management. As far as cultural heritage is concerned, the gradual inclusion of research-based activities in the mission of public and private museums will favour the employment of our Doctors, thanks to the many agreements that have already been established and to the consistent collaboration with MIBACT and MAATM, for which actions at University level will be required.
In particular, the Curriculum titled "Science and Technologies for Cultural Heritage" (STECH) is specifically aimed at qualifying "conservation scientists", a new professional profile that was recently approved by MIBACT thanks to the efforts of a specific Committee created for this purpose to which many Doctoral Committee members participated. The professional profile emerging from both Curricula of the present programme is fully prepared to meet the requirements of present-day job market in national and international contexts dealing with Heritage Science, a realm that demands an ever growing set of multi-disciplinary skills.
- Admission Board
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Name Surname Institution Role Curriculum e-mail Laura Airoldi Università di Bologna Member Cultural and environmental heritage: memory, protection, rights laura.airoldi@unibo.it Marco Antonellini Università di Bologna Member Cultural and environmental heritage: memory, protection, rights m.antonellini@unibo.it Stefano Benazzi Università di Bologna Member Cultural and environmental heritage: memory, protection, rights stefano.benazzi@unibo.it Marc Andrew Brightman Università di Bologna Member Cultural and environmental heritage: memory, protection, rights marcandrew.brightman@unibo.it Paola Degni Università di Bologna Member Cultural and environmental heritage: memory, protection, rights paola.degni@unibo.it Anna Chiara Fariselli Università di Bologna Member Cultural and environmental heritage: memory, protection, rights annachiara.fariselli@unibo.it Barbara Ghelfi Università di Bologna Member Cultural and environmental heritage: memory, protection, rights barbara.ghelfi@unibo.it Alessandro Iannucci Università di Bologna Member Cultural and environmental heritage: memory, protection, rights alessandro.iannucci@unibo.it Alessia Legnani Annichini Università di Bologna Member Cultural and environmental heritage: memory, protection, rights alessia.legnani@unibo.it Silvia Mirri Università di Bologna Member Science and Technologies for Cultural Heritage silvia.mirri@unibo.it Sahra Talamo
Università di Bologna Member Science and Technologies for Cultural Heritage sahra.talamo@unibo.it Stefano Allegrezza Università di Bologna Substitute Cultural and environmental heritage: memory, protection, rights stefano.allegrezza@unibo.it Gabriele Bitelli Università di Bologna Substitute Science and Technologies for Cultural Heritage gabriele.bitelli@unibo.it Luigi Canetti Università di Bologna Substitute Cultural and environmental heritage: memory, protection, rights luigi.canetti@unibo.it Salvatore Cosentino Università di Bologna Substitute Cultural and environmental heritage: memory, protection, rights salvatore.cosentino@unibo.it Enrico Dinelli Università di Bologna Substitute Cultural and environmental heritage: memory, protection, rights enrico.dinelli@unibo.it Vincenzo Matera Università di Bologna Substitute Cultural and environmental heritage: memory, protection, rights v.matera@unibo.it Rocco Mazzeo Università di Bologna Substitute Science and Technologies for Cultural Heritage rocco.mazzeo@unibo.it Silvia Prati Università di Bologna Substitute Science and Technologies for Cultural Heritage s.prati@unibo.it Fiammetta Sabba Università di Bologna Substitute Cultural and environmental heritage: memory, protection, rights fiammetta.sabba@unibo.it Greta Tellarini Università di Bologna Substitute Cultural and environmental heritage: memory, protection, rights greta.tellarini@unibo.it Fausto Tinti Università di Bologna Substitute Cultural and environmental heritage: memory, protection, rights fausto.tinti@unibo.it Ugo Mazzetti (umazzetti@romagnacque.it) per Romagna Acque - Società delle Fonti S.p.A. shall take part in the work of the Admission Board as Expert Member
- Learning outcomes
- The substantive goal of the PhD in Cultural and Environmental Heritage is to bridge the many different perspectives involved in the study of cultural and environmental processes under one, cross-disciplinary perspective, favouring a new approach that focuses on transversal research questions rather than on issues limited to an individual discipline. To date, the study of Cultural and Environmental Heritage has privileged mono-disciplinary perspectives that could achieve excellent levels of specialisation. Fully integrated, multi-disciplinary approaches entailing a close collaboration between humanities, biological sciences, social sciences, and law – such as the one proposed in the present programme – are still severely underrepresented. This transversal research will be conducted into shared structures and laboratories, and will aim to train Doctors of Philosophy who are highly specialised and yet able to participate to multidisciplinary research teams.
- Activities to be carried out by Doctoral candidates
- Curriculum Cultural and Environmental Heritage:
- Cultural heritage (ranging from religious background to musical heritage, from collectionism to appreciation and preservation of historic-artistic, archival, and audio-visual heritage); history and culture of Mediterranean and Western Asian civilizations; public history, with a specific orientation towards general public dissemination; conservation of ethno-cultural heritage and diversity.
- Environment, objects, and rights; diagnostic analysis of monumental and portable artefact of historical interest; musealisation through digital and virtual modelling; promoting the appreciation and use of bio-environmental goods as common goods; legal and regulatory consequences
- Environment and landscape, cities and architecture: tools for the analysis and conservation of the environment, biological, anthropological and archaeological heritage, urban settings, industrial archaeology, restoration of historical architecture, the historical relationship between urban areas and their territory, sustainable development of tourism, fruition of historic towns.
Governance and management of common goods; risk assessment and risk management, efficient use of resources, definition and quantification of ecosystemic service value, assessment of natural resource consumption and of the production of solid, liquid, and gaseouse waste.
The Curriculum "Science and Technologies for Cultural Heritage" focuses on technologies related to conservation and restoration of cultural heritage by joining techniques for material characterisation, assessment of the state of conservation, synthesis of new materials, advanced diagnostics, ICT, and documenting/monitoring material cultural heritage. Students will be part of pure/applied experimental research projects in which they will take advantage of collaborations with both public and private international research institutions. - Research training activities compliant with the Doctoral programme's learning outcomes
- The programme is expected to provide students with high-level knowledge across a number of specific topics, as well as multidisciplinary skills that will facilitate the development of a novel body of advanced theory and methods for conservation, management, and understanding of common goods from a cultural, environmental, and juridical perspective.
Both curricula will involve:
- First year: Three interdisciplinary seminars attended by all students and focused on topics bridging environmental, cultural, and juridical themes. The courses will be planned by the Doctoral Committee and will be held by world-leading international scholars, staff of the University of Bologna, and renowned professionals employed by relevant Institutions and Enterprises. Three additional seminars specifically centred on the chosen research topics that can be attended at other Campuses or Universities, provided approval is granted by the Doctoral Committee.
- Second year: Three interdisciplinary seminars attended by all students and focused on topics bridging environmental, cultural, and juridical themes. The courses will be planned by the Doctoral Committee and will be held by world-leading international scholars, staff of the University of Bologna, and renowned professionals employed by relevant Institutions and Enterprises. Three additional seminars specifically centred on the chosen research topics that can be attended at other Campuses or Universities, providing approval by the Doctoral Committee.
- Third year: Advanced Summer/Winter School aimed at completing topics introduced in Year 2. A course focused on national and international funding schemes, international mobility schemes, project writing and general research skills. Annual monitoring of the progress of each doctoral candidate is also envisaged through presentations to be held at the end of each year at the presence of tutors, the Doctoral Committee, and prominent academics and professionals. - Internationalization features
- The PhD programme presents with a marked international vocation expressed through:
- The advertisement of courses and activities in international websites, to facilitate applications from international students.
- Teaching and lectures held by world-leading international experts whose participation is funded or co-funded by the Univeristy of Bologna (e.g. invited international scholars already approved by the Institute of Advanced Studies).
- Drawing on the international network of Committee members and their institutions to offer stages and internships in international and overseas research centres. The official PhD website will provide links to the helpdesk of the Ravenna Campus International Office. Through this link international students can receive support upon arrival (welcome week, buddy system, language courses, etc), and ask questions related to visa, residence permit, and medical assistance.
- The presence of a Curriculum in English ("Science and Technologies for Cultural Heritage") aimed at studying technological innovations related to conservation and restoration of Cultural Heritage. Based on previous experience, it is expected that this particular Curriculum will generate a positive feedback on the general level of internationalisation. Doctoral courses that preceded the present proposal were already characterised by a considerable degree of interaction with international partners and scholars. The PhD includes also four fully founded scholarships (from ERC Consolidator n. 772544) and two co-financed scholarships (H2020 FLEXJET, ITALIA - CROAZIA PRIZE FISH, respectively) from Internationl projects. - Expected research results and products
- The PhD programme is aimed at providing researchers and qualified experts/professionals with the cross-disciplinary training necessary to conjugate complementary sources of knowledge and to develop an advanced body of method and theory for conservation, protection, and management of our heritage. This result will entail at the same time cultural, environmental, and legal perspectives, and will benefit from an adequate historical contextualisation, as well as from the acquisition of effective skills for valorization and dissemination to the broad public. Doctors of Philosophy are expected to:
- handle complex problem-solving tasks within both public institutions and private enterprises or corporations;
- propose new management and fruition strategies at different operational scales.
During the three-year PhD programme, the candidate is also expected to publish papers, monograph, and present results at national and international conferences.
- Doctoral programme Academic Board
Surname Name University/Institution Qualification Antonellini Marco Università di Bologna Professore Associato Benazzi Stefano Università di Bologna Professore Ordinario Bitelli Gabriele Università di Bologna Professore Ordinario Canetti Luigi Università di Bologna Professore Ordinario Carile Maria Cristina Università di Bologna Professore Associato Carloni Christian Università di Bologna Professore Associato Cipriani Luca Università di Bologna Professore Associato Confermato Contin Andrea Università di Bologna Professore Ordinario Cosentino Salvatore Università di Bologna Professore Ordinario Curi Francesca Università di Bologna Professore Associato Confermato Degni Paola Università di Bologna Professore Ordinario Fabbri Laura Università di Bologna Professore Associato Fariselli Anna Chiara Università di Bologna Professore Ordinario Franzellitti Silvia Università di Bologna Professore Associato Ghelfi Barbara Università di Bologna Professore Associato Legnani Annichini Alessia Università di Bologna Professore Associato Marchi Michele Università di Bologna Professore Associato Mazzeo Rocco Università di Bologna Professore Ordinario Mirri Silvia Università di Bologna Ricercatore Confermato Nobili Claudia Sebastiana Università di Bologna Professore Ordinario Panaino Antonio Clemente Domenico Università di Bologna Professore Ordinario Prati Silvia Università di Bologna Professore Associato Tellarini Greta Università di Bologna Professore Ordinario Tinti Fausto Università di Bologna Professore Associato Confermato
See also
- AMS phD thesis (in Italian) Published