Open for Registration: LeidenGlobal Course for PhD & Research Master students
Methodologies in the Social Sciences and the Humanities
Methodologies is an interdisciplinary graduate course organised by LeidenGlobal in collaboration with the Leiden University Institute for Area Studies (LIAS). It allows beginning scholars to develop a critical understanding of methodologies in the social sciences and humanities (SSH). At the end of the course, participants will be able to motivate their individual methodological choices within the broader context of methodologies in SSH. For the purpose of developing this motivation they will critically review the methodologies of their field of research in general and their respective research projects specifically.
Guest lectures by established scholars, class discussion and state-of-the-art literature help participants form a critical basis for both current and future research. Methodology refers to the logical and developed coherence between research question, theory and methods. Rather than a fixed set of rules, methodology is based in an on-going conversation among scholars in the SSH on data collection and analysis. During this course, participants engage in this conversation with their peers (peer review sessions) as well as experienced researchers in the SSH (lectures).
Throughout the course, participants become acquainted with the main epistemological debates in the SSH and the choices they need to make -and self-critically support -in their own research. This is a 10EC course; meaning participants are expected to spend approximately 280 hours on this course.
Please discuss this opportunity with your advisors, and keep an eye on the deadline.
For more information, please write to info@leidenglobal.nl or contact the person responsible for PhD or Research Master’s training in your institution.