14. Sep 2020
[IAMO Graduate School] Free slots: Basic Principles of Research Design and Strategy (October 21-22, 2020)
Quick-and-dirty number-crunching ‘quantoids’ face them. Carefully describing and interpreting ‘smooshes’ face them. No matter where they stand on ontological and epistemological grounds and how we stereotype the respective ‘other side’, all researchers face similar challenges posed to core issues of research design. A research design is a plan that specifies how you plan to carry out a research project and, particularly, how you expect to use evidence to answer your research question.
The goal of this course is twofold. First, it should provide an overview about the universe of potential research designs. Second, this course should facilitate doctoral students to be able to see the trade-offs involved in choosing a particular research design in their research projects. Consequently, doctoral students are expected to develop own ideas about potential research questions and actively participate in those seminar-style meetings that are organized within this lecture course. […]
Course registration
The course is free of charge. Please note that a maximum of 15 students can participate. In case you would like to register, please send an email to Franziska Schaft / until 12.10.2020. Places will be allocated in the order of incoming registration emails.
