
THE DOCTORAL SCHOOL FOR PSYCHOLOGY AND EDUCATION SCIENCE
The Doctoral School in Psychology and Educational Sciences at the University of Bucharest is devoted to the training of researchers, as well as to developing advanced research in its two specialization tracks: Psychology and Educational Sciences (Pedagogy). These two scientific disciplines, although strongly intertwined and engaged in intensive collaboration within the Doctoral School, have relatively separate doctoral training tracks: each track is represented by its doctoral coordinators, qualified only in that respective domain, the admission is conducted in separate committees and the doctoral courses are held in part separately (though some courses are common to both tracks). The Doctoral School trains approximately 15-20 students each year in each of the two tracks it provides (the number of successful doctoral graduates varies each year).
The Doctoral School’s mission is to train excellent researchers in the two scientific domains that it includes, as well as to contribute, via its associated coordinators and doctoral students, to advanced scientific research in the Faculty of Psychology and Educational Sciences.
The Doctoral School is the main center for scientific research in the Faculty. We understand advanced scientific research via two indicators. The first defines advanced research as research with an international impact, published in internationally acclaimed scientific journals. The second indicator, and subsequent to the first, is putting research into practice via public policy, whitepapers or products with social or commercial value.
The Chair of the Doctoral School in Psychology and Education Science is Prof. Univ. Dr. Dragoș Iliescu.
Dragoș Iliescu is a Professor of Psychology with the University of Bucharest. He has been active as a consultant for the past 20 years, being involved in and having led important projects related to tests, testing and assessment (among them more than 100 test adaptation projects), mainly in South-Eastern Europe, but also in South-East Asia, Africa, the Middle East and South America. Dragoș Iliescu has served in various capacities for a number of national and international professional associations; among others, he is the immediate Past-President (2016-2018) of the International Test Commission (ITC) and the Treasurer of the European Association for Work and Organizational Psychology (EAWOP). He is an Associate Editor for the European Journal of Psychological Assessment, and the author of over 100 scientific papers, book chapters and books, among them the co-Editor of the acclaimed ITC International Handbook of Testing and Assessment, published in 2016 by Oxford University Press, and the author of an important monography (Adapting tests in linguistic and cultural situations) published with Cambridge University Press. His research interests group around two domains: (1) psychometrics: psychological and educational assessment, tests and testing (with an important cross-cultural component), and (2) work, industrial and organizational psychology (with an important focus on occupational health and wellbeing).
A detailed CV can be downloaded from here.
The Council of the Doctoral School is comprised of five members. Two of them are faculty professors (one responsible for the Psychology track and one responsible for the Educational Sciences track), two are professors from outside the faculty (also divided as one responsible for the Psychology track and one responsible for the Educational Sciences track) and one is a student of the doctoral school. Currently, these positions are filled by the following:
Prof. Univ. Dr. Dragoș Iliescu (Universitatea din București)
Prof. Univ. Dr. Anca Nedelcu (Universitatea din București)
Prof. Univ. Dr. Aurel Clinciu (Universitatea Transilvania din Brașov)
Prof. Univ. Dr. Nicoleta Lițoiu (Universitatea Politehnică din București)
Aida Săraru (student, Universitatea din București)