ABSTRACT

This chapter examines training for planning PhD students in Italy, including training/education in relation to ethics. In the United Kingdom, the PhD is a research-based degree. A PhD is simply not necessary for a career in planning or other professions, but it has gradually become an essential requirement for a career as an academic in a planning school. The UK approach aims to arm a researcher with a number of tools that will make him first a researcher and second a specialist in a certain area. PhD students were asked whether in their PhD programme some formal training was organised, whether this training included some specific modules/seminars on methodology and in particular if there was any module on the subject of research ethics. In Italy, not all the PhD programmes in urban planning have specific methodology courses among the general formal training, as highlighted in Lo Piccolo.