Regions are changing. Be part of the change. Explore regions through the lens of identity, culture, history and geopolitics. Our interdisciplinary PhD programme offers a deep dive into the forces shaping regions today – and tomorrow. Learn across fields: history, political science, globalistics, demography, theories of regional development, methods of geograpical research, and more. Build critical thinking, teamwork, and leadership skills. Engage with real-world challenges – and become a voice for the future of the regions.

The doctoral's degree in Regional geography and regional development is a four-year program (240 ECTS). The study plan maintains a balance between natural sciences and humanities courses.

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Graduates are competent to deal with the problems of the relations between the natural environment and human community in a particular region to solve the problems of the spatial organization of society at a regional level leading to application within a specific regional development. Graduates are able to use, improve and develop a theoretical-methodological base of regional geography, the methodology of regional analysis in particular, the theory of regions as a constitutional element of the society, the theory and methodology of regional development, the modelling of regional systems, theory of globalization and its regional consequences.

Knowledge Acquired: theories, terminology, and research methodology of regional geography and regional development

• regional analysis methodology
• theory of regions
• theory and methodology of regional development
• regional modeling systems
• theory of globalization and its regional implications

Skills acquired: identify key problems of research in regional geography and regional development

• design research process independently, coordinate it and prove its validity and reliability through the publication of research results in scientific journals
• achieve scientific results while maintaining academic integrity
• creatively use and develop GIS applications such as visualization and analysis tool for research

Competences acquired: research/academic competences, soft skills

• able to identify, propose, coordinate and solve practical and academic tasks
• coordinate procedures in teams, take any responsibility for the team
• engage socially in favor of the adoption of appropriate solutions
• comprehensively assess the ethical, social, economic, political and cultural context of the problems
• lead and argue the scientific debate at the international level

Due to the specifics of the School of Regional Geography and Regional Development, the graduates are applied on the labour market also at the workplaces of the Slovak Academy of Sciences, universities, in the state administration and self-government, etc. They also find employment in solving problems of regional development in private companies and non-profit organizations.

Entry requirements:

• Masters’s degree in Geography and Applied Geoinformatics, or Teaching Geography (combined), or a similar field of study,
• English language competence at B2 (CEFR level)
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Admission procedure:

• pay the application fee of €50 (the confirmation of payment must be attached to the application)
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• fill in and submit the application form
• print the application form, sign it and send it to the Faculty address with the required application documents
• Address: Prešovská univerzita v Prešove, Dekanát Fakulty humanitných a prírodných vied, Ul. 17. novembra 1, 081 16 Prešov, Slovakia