Webpages tagged with «PhD training»

Advanced course in methods: This one-day PhD course introduces “materialities” as both a conceptual approach and a research methodology across the humanities and social sciences. The course explores how scholars have foregrounded things, environments, and more-than-human relations to rethink culture, society, and historical knowledge.

Advanced course in Ethics: This course aims at equipping young researchers with the skills and insights needed to address the challenges of research collaboration. Through presentations, conversations, and exercises, we will discuss how to prepare for collaborating with other researchers and how to ensure clear communication and productive co-authorship.

Advanced course in methods: Archives are collections of documents and institutions that preserve them. What have been kept, for what purposes, by whom, and how can they be accessed? And how does asking these questions help students of the present and the past shape new research questions and design more thoughtful and better research projects? This course seeks to enable students to engage with the epistemic problems presented by archives. What is it possible to know and represent through archival sources, and what are the limitations to what can be known?  

Researcher skills: This course aims at equipping young researchers with the skills and insights needed to address the challenges of research collaboration. Through conversations and exercises, we will discuss how to prepare for collaborating with other researchers and how to ensure clear communication and productive co-authorship.

Researcher skills: Why should we attend academic conferences despite their stress, cost, and environmental impact? This seminar seeks to answer this question by exploring the essential benefits of academic meetings. We will discuss the rationale behind conferences, different types of academic events, and practical advices.

The text development seminars are designed to be an integral part of the educational component, aimed at enhancing the writing skills of all candidates and ultimately producing high-quality dissertations. 

Advanced course in methods: Archives are collections of documents and institutions that preserve them. What have been kept, for what purposes, by whom, and how can they be accessed? And how does asking these questions help students of the present and the past shape new research questions and design more thoughtful and better research projects? This course seeks to enable students to engage with the epistemic problems presented by archives. What is it possible to know and represent through archival sources, and what are the limitations to what can be known?  

How do young researchers write clear and well formulated research descriptions? How do they get funding for their research projects? This one-day workshop aims to provide young researchers with the necessary tools to write competitive applications and get funding.