The USJ Doctoral Symposium (DOCS 2025) is an event organised by the Doctoral School of the University of Saint Joseph (USJ) Macao, with the sponsorship of the Education and Youth Development Bureau (DSEDJ). DOCS 2025 is dedicated to cultivating doctoral students as well-rounded researchers, while also providing researchers, postdoctoral fellows, invited speakers, prospective candidates, and the broader community with a dynamic platform for sharing and discussing research progress, methodologies, and innovative proposals. Emphasizing multi-, inter-, and transdisciplinary approaches across the Doctoral Programmes nine specializations—Global Studies, History, Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, Business Administration, Government Studies, Science, and Information Systems—DOCS 2025 encourages integration of the sciences and humanities to address contemporary challenges.
The DOCS 2025 program features several sessions with international researchers, presentations of doctoral preliminary results from our PhD candidates’ projects, poster sessions by our PhD foundational year students, a book exhibition, and other networking events, providing participants with immersive opportunities for interdisciplinary exchange.
This year’s edition program specially emphasises Macau’s identity and historical research on the Chinese People’s War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression and the World Anti-Fascist War, fostering Macau’s role in this effort and promoting a sense of belonging, through a keynote conference by Prof. Priscilla Roberts titled “Resistance and Refugees: Macau and South China During the Anti-Japanese War”.
Supported by DSEDJ
