This doctorate programme in Social Science fits within an innovative research initiative. Its objective is to raise awareness at international level of the research carried at the Centre for Applied Research and Study in Perceptual Psychoeducation (CERAP) on the paradigm of the Sensible. It offers students the opportunity to become researchers as they develop new projects and thus to participate in the production of knowledge of an expanding community.
The Diploma in Research Methodology is a post-graduate diploma giving access to the second year of the Doctorate in Social Science of Fernando Pessoa University. This doctorate offers students the opportunity to carry out research in several areas of specialisation such as psychoeducation, health education, somatic-psychoeducation, psychosociology and fasciatherapy.
Diploma in Research Methodology
With the Diploma in Research Methodology, students deepen their knowledge and pratice of positivist and comprehensive paradigms as well as the paradigm of the Sensible. The diploma is intended to develop proficiency in data collection and data analysis methodologies. It is specific to this post-graduate programme and allows prospective doctoral students to acquire a general knowledge of research as preparation for the processes involved in doctoral research.
The doctorate, a personal project, a collective adventure
The paradigm of the Sensible brings brings new perspectives to research on the body and on subjectivity. It straddles a variety of research fields in the sciences of education, psychoeducation, neurosciences, health psychology and philosophy. The research we offer therefore fits within a multidisciplinary context, as advocated by the current european ministerial research initiatives to promote interdisciplinary collaboration.
Doctoral research is also a human adventure. It offers students the opportunity to discover their own creative dimension and to be involved in first-person research.
A research enhancing environment
The research team and the experts who make up the research laboratory CERAP have been trained over many years by Pr Danis Bois. This laboratory has developed an international network of partners involved in research and the organisation of conferences and seminars: the University of Québec at Rimouski, Paris VIII, Paris XIII as well as universities in Brazil. This network aims to promote current research on the body and subjectivity, the construction of the subject and the caring relationship in their pedagogical, educative and human dimensions.
Strong points
The paradigm of the Sensible constitutes the main research direction of the CERAP. Within this paradigm, fasciatherapy, somatic-psychoeducation and perceptual psychoeducation are growing disciplines that are well established academically and provide doctoral students with innovative research projects in many areas of research.
The practitioner-researchers within the CERAP work around a common vision of research in which the involvement of the researcher and their professional expertise have a fondamental part to play. Research on the paradigm of the Sensible offer doctoral students innovative directions such as:
- the study of subjectivity and intersubjectivity
- the place of the body in learning processes
- the construction of the subject
- the place of the body in the support of health processes
Coordination
The general and scientific coordination of the Diploma in Research Methodology and the Doctorate in Social Science (in France) are the responsibility of Prof Danis Bois PhD – Associate professor at Fernando Pessoa University, holder of a european doctorate in Sciences of Education, psychoeducator, coordinator and founder of the CERAP and founder of somatic-psychoeducation. Teaching and course coordination is the responsability of Prof Didier Austry, PhD – guest associate professor at Fernando Pessoa University, doctor of science, holder of a DESS in Course Coordination (French vocational post-graduate diploma), doctoral student in philosophy at the Université de Rouen.
Scientific and course organisation
Holders of the the Diploma in Research Methodology have direct access to the second year of the doctorate degree course. The objective of the diploma is to provide future doctoral students with the necessary tools – both quantitative and qualitative - to carry out research and data analysis. This diploma is worth 60 ECTS credits. To obtain the diploma and therefore get access to the second year of the doctorate, students need to write a 20 pages paper on a research project and to defend it at Fernando Pessoa University in Porto in front of an examining panel of teachers.
The doctorate programme runs over a period of 2 to 4 years. Doctoral students carry out in-depth research, usually involving data collection on the field of their professional practice, then a detailed analysis and discussion/interpretation of the findings to bring them into a theoretical framework. During this process, students will receive doctoral supervision and will also be supported individually and in small groups of co-researchers during sessions facilitated by doctoral supervisors.
The dissertation is defended publically at Fernando Pessoa University in Porto.
At the end, doctoral students are awarded a PhD in Social Science by the UFP, mentioning the specialized area of their research, some of which are psycho-education, health education, fasciatherapy and somatic-psychoeducation.
Candidates
This programme is intended for professionals and practitioner-researchers interested in working around the theme of renewed ways of relating to the body and to subjectivity, and issues relating to psychology of health, health education and health promotion.
In accordance with legislation governing doctorate admission requirements, the Diploma in Research Methodology giving access to the doctorate programme in Social Science is open to those with a level of academic, scientific or professional experience, recognised as being to an appropriate level to carry out this programme. Applicants need to have completed the equivalent of a post-graduate programme. (French Baccalaureate + 5 years)
Prospective students need to submit an initial proposal for their research project with their application to the programme. This proposal is then reviewed by the doctoral committee. Admission is subject to the acceptance of the research project and the appointment of a doctoral supervisor.
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- Nathalie Bois : Le Verbe de l’être. Etude des processus et enjeux dans l’avènement d’une parole orale et écrite sur le mode du Sensible.
- Valérie Bouchet : La motivation immanente comme mise en action de soi. Analyse du processus de reconfiguration des motivations des adultes au contact de l’expérience corporéisée du Sensible.
- Doris Cencig : L’entrelacement des dimensions soignantes et formatrices de la Somato-psychopédagogie. Le point de vue des personnes accompagnées en Somato-psychopédagogie.
- Christian Courraud : Fasciathérapie et identité professionnelle. Etude des reconfigurations identitaires du kinésithérapeute-fasciathérapeute.
- Dimitri Dagot : L’action en conscience. Comment un collectif d’enseignants renouvelle-t-il son mode d’action face à la complexité en explorant son rapport à l’action ?
- Linda De Lausnay : La Fasciathérapie et son application sur les victimes de torture et de violence organisée. Etude des dimensions soignantes et salutogènes de la Fasciathérapie.
- Jean-Philippe Gauthier : Cheminer depuis l’expérience de la joie ontologique. Une recherche-formation au contact du Sensible.
- Jean Humpich : Enjeux et voies de passages dans le maintien de l’état d’Homme ému. Vers une discipline de vie vers une affectivité renouvelée ?
- Vincent Huyghe : Rapport au corps sensible et ajustement des conduites émotionnelles, corporelles et intellectuelles chez les élèves en difficulté scolaire.
- Patrick Large : Dimensions et représentations du sacré dans l’expérience du Sensible. Caractérisation, processus de transformation, tentative de modélisation. Etude auprès d’étudiants en Somato-psychopédagogie.
- Anne Lieutaud : Science et sensible. Le processus de recherche du chercheur du Sensible.
- Agnès Noël : Les enjeux éthiques de l’accompagnement sur le mode du Sensible. Qu’en disent les praticiens d’expérience en Somato-psychopédagogie et les personnes accompagnées ?
- Sylvie Rosenberg : L’entretien à directivité informative. Accompagnement verbal d’une expérience corporelle sur le mode du Sensible.
- Philippe Rosier : Fasciathérapie et accompagnement du sportif. Etude sur l’application de la Fasciathérapie auprès d’une population de sportifs de haut niveau.