Tesis doctorales sobre fotografía en la universidad española. Análisis de la producción y dirección (1976-2012)

Abstract

This paper analyses the production and supervision of doctoral theses on photography in Spanish universities, i.e., in all centres where courses related to this subject matter are taught. The period of study runs from 1976 until 2012, and we have applied bibliometric techniques to conduct this analysis. We have used as the main source of information the Teseo database of the Ministry of Education, whose information has been contrasted and completed with the Dialnet virtual library, the Cisne catalogue, the Network of University Libraries and the Centro Virtual Cervantes. In all, 275 theses were identified, of which 39 had been co-directed. The results describe the quantification, the topic, the distribution by universities, centres and departments, and the number of directors and co-directors. By way of contextualization, there is an introduction into the incorporation of photography into official and university studies. © 2014 CSIC.