Doctorat Sciences pour l'ingénieur - Sécurité sanitaire at Conservatoire national des arts et métiers (Cnam)

Programme overview

National doctorate (level 8, Cnam code DOC3900A) at the Conservatoire national des arts et métiers in health safety (sécurité sanitaire), within the engineering sciences, entered at level 7 (Bac+5). The programme designs and implements research protocols to develop quantitative tools for assessing health risks, notably those linked to work, the environment and healthcare organisation. It is prepared within the Ecole doctorale Sciences des métiers de l'ingénieur (ED SMI).

Department: Ecole doctorale Sciences des métiers de l'ingénieur (ED SMI) | Duration: 3 years | Study mode: part-time (language of instruction: French) | Location: Paris, Île-de-France, France

What you will study

Doctoral training units (ECTS-free) including doctoral days, welcome seminar, introduction to qualitative and quantitative methods, epistemology, research ethics and scientific integrity, information retrieval, a skills portfolio, optional units such as scientific publishing and English for research, and the thesis defence. Doctoral students follow more than 100 hours of training over the three years of the thesis, at least 50 hours of scientific courses and 50 hours of professional-opening courses.

Career pathways

Skills include defining a health-safety research problem, analysing data with biomathematical or biostatistical tools and writing scientific publications.

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Application information

Entry requirements

Holder of a national master's degree or a diploma conferring the master's grade, after a training path establishing aptitude for research (exceptions possible for equivalent foreign studies or validation of prior learning). The candidate sends a research project and CV to the habilitated academic they wish as thesis supervisor, then registers through Adum after agreement of the supervisor and laboratory director.

Duration: 3 years

Engineering