Research Design in Environmental Sociology
Programma
The course aims to provide PhD students working on environmental issues with a shared space for presenting the development of their projects to an audience made of professors, post-doctoral researchers and peers. The focus will be on the main aspects of their work, namely: definition of core questions, theoretical framing, case selection, methodology, challenges of fieldwork, analysis and discussion of results. By involving participants at different stages of academic experience the course also offers an opportunity to develop skills not only in discussing one’s own work but also in contributing to the others’, both during the sessions and in subsequent informal occasions, face-to-face or at small group level.
Obiettivi formativi
Main objective is improving the framework and goals of each project, and fine tuning the research steps. Complementary goals are improving reflective and communication skills, as well as reciprocal knowledge and potential networking. Beneficial in all these respects is expected to be the involvement of students at different stages of their work and academic experience