Following up the evaluation of the ‘Kick off meeting and initial training days’ taking place online over October and November, TOD-IS-RUR network will organize an extra training in Antwerp focusing on research design and the individual research projects of the ESRs.
An essential part of the TOD-IS-RUR training is the ESRs’ feedback on session organization and its training materials with the aim to optimise the future training provision, tailored and adapted to the needs of the ESRs and the project. The training week will offer its participants four types of training sessions: (1) lecture sessions on research design, comparative methods and the relation between theory and empirics, (2) thesis sessions centering on the individual ESR projects, (3) ESR sessions organized by the ESRs, and a (4) final wrap-up session with a brainstorm mapping relations between projects and grouping projects.
Between 31 January and 3 February 2022 our ESRs met at UAntwerpen for a winter school on research design. Between workshops and brainstorming sessions, each ESR presented their work in progress, receiving valuable feedback from their peers and supervisory network. ESRs worked towards finding common ground and spaces for collaboration between the different projects. Big thanks goes to Prof. Greet De Block, André Klaassen & Sandra La Rota at UAntwerpen for all their work organizing the winter school and helping it to run so smoothly!