We are thrilled to announce the opening of the registration for the 10th edition of the Winter School on Research Methodology in Social Sciences, Urban Studies, and Spatial Planning!
The Winter School will take place from the 13th to the 16th of February 2024 in Florence, and we will celebrate the decennial of this event that has been attended by hundreds of young researchers who achieved their PhD and a successful career in Academia.
The program is designed to improve, implement, and deepen your skillset as researchers and PhD students, with various keynotes and workshops that are tackling basic tools, classic and innovative methods, and approaches, while offering tips and tricks directly from fellow colleagues or more experienced researchers.
Attending the Winter School will give you the opportunity to kick off – or continue - your PhD or your research project with the right tools and skills.
The first two days of workshops will be dedicated to BASICS, where you can learn how to design your own research, deepen your understanding of academic writing and academic publishing. The second day is about the research METHODS, both in qualitative and quantitative form, which can give diverse options to tackle your research problematization and goals. The third day is going to be reserved for the APPROACHES and TIPS&TRICKS, with the knowledge gained you can understand better your role in academia and your potential future pathways, while discovering practical and interesting facts that might not be always explicitly said by your supervisors and colleagues. Within and around these workshops there will be moments to explore and socialize with your fellow PhD students and build together with us the network of the Winter School.
You can register directly via the Google form until 26/01/2024, 16 pm: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1aR8hiogjOBPj_xzYuDuW8pu7FyHS0kLKiaQIa8IZFxI/viewform?edit_requested=true
Attendees from all countries are welcome having at least achieved a master’s degree. The Winter School will be held in English and will provide students with 4 credits (to be agreed with the sending universities).
The fee is 195€.
Participation grants are not available.
The fee includes following costs:
3 lunches; coffee breaks; the welcoming aperitif cost; the cost of the participation in the school
The fee does not include:
travel cost to reach the venue, accommodation, and the local tourist tax (4€/person/each day), the social dinner (which is around 30€).
The Winter School will provide a certificate of participation.
After the registration process more information will be provided about organizational issues.
Meanwhile you can directly visit the Winter School website (work in progress): https://researchmethodologyws.org/
If you have further questions, please do not hesitate to contact us at this email:
We are looking forward to meeting you in person and feel free to share this email with your network and to invite as many colleagues as you like!
Sincerely,
The organizing team
The Winter School is promoted by the Università degli Studi di Firenze (PHD PROGRAM in Sustainability and innovation for the design of the built environment and the product system, Doctoral Program on Urban and Regional Planning, Department of Architecture), with the support of EURA (European Urban Research Association) and is the result of long standing networking among several Italian universities: Politecnico di Bari, Università degli Studi di Cagliari, Università degli Studi di Catania, Università degli Studi di Firenze, IUAV, Venezia, Politecnico di Milano, Università degli Studi di Torino, Politecnico di Torino, Sapienza Università di Rome, Università degli Studi Roma Tre, Università degli Studi del Molise, Università degli Studi di Napoli, Università degli Studi di Palermo, Università degli Studi di Sassari.
