VSR x ELS Academy PhD Days 2026: Registration and programme now available!

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If you’re a PhD candidate interested in law in action—whether you already use empirical methods or want to add them to your toolkit—join the VSR × ELS Academy PhD Days. Over two concentrated days you’ll sharpen your research design, pressure-test your research questions, and learn to communicate findings with impact, guided by experienced scholars and a cohort of peers and senior researchers. We open with a keynote by Prof. Wibren van der Burg, reflecting on what interdisciplinary and empirical legal research demands in practice and how it can reshape your project’s trajectory.

Across the programme you’ll encounter interactive sessions that cover the full arc of the PhD: from framing problems and designing studies to collecting and analysing data (qualitative and quantitative), navigating ethics and reflexivity, and presenting your work inside and outside academia. The emphasis is practical, actionable, and immediately usable—so you leave with tools you can apply the next day, plus an expanded network for feedback and collaboration.

For more information about the programme, click here. To register, click here.