Research Design in Economic Sociology
Prerequisiti
1st-4th year of PhD
Programma
The course is meant to support students in designing and completing the PhD manuscript. The course focuses on students’ research works by offering each student the opportunity to present, discuss, and obtain feedback on individual parts of their theses. Besides improving reciprocal knowledge and potential networking, the research design course aims at discussing, with reference to the specific projects, the main steps in the development of a research design: from the selection of the central research questions, to their theoretical framing, the case selection, the choice of the empirical methods of investigation, the challenges of field work, and the analysis and presentation of the results.
Involving participants at different stages of their academic experiences, the seminar also offers the opportunity to develop PhD’s skills in discussing and constructively contributing to each other research, both during the formal sessions and in successive informal meetings.
Obiettivi formativi
The goal of the Research Design seminar is to make students test and develop their skills for presenting effectively - in writing and orally - their research progress, summarising their findings, advancing and updating their PhD project, interpreting the results, interacting critically with the work of other PhD students. Students are expected to acquire a rigorous awareness of the logic, aims and limitations of their research project.