about
The Winter School offers PhD candidates and young academics in the fields of urban studies and spatial planning the opportunity to interactively build their learning and training paths in research, with a specific focus on pre-methodological (e.g. how to write and publish an academic article) and methodological (e.g methods of policy analysis, geodesign methodology, engaged research etc.) questions.
The opportunity of individual meetings with faculty members on research projects and papers is offered to participants in the programme.
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, Curriculum in 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.
structure
A network of scholars from a number of Italian universities, engaged with doctoral courses, have voluntarily set up a PhD learning project on research methodology in the field of planning and urban studies.
The school is organized around the following main sections:
BASICS
Basic questions will be addressed in this section, including: how to write an academic article or a PhD Thesis, and, how to publish in international scientific journals.
RESEARCH DESIGN
We will address: an overall strategy to integrate the different components of a qualitative study and effectively address the research problem. We will address topics including: questions about what research design is and what it is not, how to make sure all parts are properly in place before “tightening”, and why are you thinking of doing a qualitative study of the topic chosen.
METHODOLOGICAL QUESTIONS [METHODS]
Parallel workshop will be offered, addressing topics including: questions related to methods of qualitative and quantitative research and to the re- search-action approach, and, the challenge of working with comparative approaches beyond the stereotyped ‘divides’ that have influenced inter- national research (north/south divide; formal/informal etc.).
APPROACHES
We will address hot topics in the field of planning and urban studies this section from a methodological perspective. Leading scholars in the field will give a talk addressing their methodological approaches to the topic.
RENT A RESEARCHER
“Rent a Researcher” is an opportunity to meet researches in an interesting, engaging and approachable way: a number of Italian scholars are available for peer-to-peer one-to-one meetings with a limited number of PhD candidates and young academics for exchange and tutoring activities.
PhD SOCIAL CLUB
PhD SOCIAL CLUB is thought of as a free peer-to-peer discussion among young scholars, held by PhD students and former PhD and PhD students. The PhD SOCIAL CLUB runs parallel to the Rent a Researcher sessions
registration
The Winter School will be held in English and will provide students with 4 credits (to be agreed with the sending universities).
Please register and find more infomation on the Winter Schools here.
Participation grants are not available
IMPORTANT DATES AND INFO:
January 11, 2024: Application for registration are officially open!
January 26, 2024: Application for registration deadline (or before due to limited availability)
Number of attendees accepted: 80
Fee: 195€ (it includes: 2 lunches; coffee breaks; the welcoming aperitif cost; the cost of the participation in the School).
If you have any questions, please visit the website and do not hesitate to contact the organizers at this email:
