PhD Course

Empirical Design

Course Description: The workshop empirical research design is for everyone who plans to do empirical research during their PhD, irrespective of their previous experience. In order to allow for the workshop participants to learn from each other, this will be an open discussion workshop, in which participants work together on different research design problems and discuss the resulting designs. The workshop consists of two parts. In the first part, the workshop supervisors give a short
introduction after which we break into groups of four or five participants. Each group will then develop and specify a design for investigating a given research question. All groups will present their developed research design to the other participants, who critique and compare them with their own developed design. This approach usually results in lively discussions, and people get confronted with questions and solutions originating from quite different disciplines than their own. In the second part of the workshop, workshop participants will present and discuss the empirical research designs of their PhD projects. These research designs might vary from being already fully developed to being in an early, very provisional, or even embryonic stage. For each presenter, another participant will be asked to act as primary discussant, and prepare critical questions and supportive suggestions in order to open the general discussion with the remaining participants

Prior Requirements: No conditions on earlier training apply.

When: The course starts 23 October 2024, on Wednesday afternoons from 1:45 pm -4:45 pm. Room: Main Building HG-03A11 (Agora 5)

Course Coordinator: Anja Eleveld (Vrije Universiteit) & Peter Ejbye-Ernst (NSCR)

Extra Information: Registration is open. To sign up for the course,  please send a short description of your research project (½ A4) and your methodology background to pejbyeernst@nscr.nl. Please use “ERD2024” in the subject line of your e-mail. As soon as the  dates have been fixed, we’ll ask you to confirm your participation. Upon registration you get a small  syllabus. There is only place for a limited number of participants, so don’t wait too long. Feel free to approach or email us with questions and remarks.