DSh Doctoral School

Would you like to compete with fellow-researchers for the VUB PhD Cup 2019? Then be sure to reserve a spot on the pre-selections taking place during the PhD days of the Doctoral Schools and bring along your colleagues! You not only can win a spot during the finals in May, but will...

Op dinsdag  26 maart 2019 organiseert de Vereniging Voor Demografie (VVD) de derde Dag van de Demografie aan de Vrije Universiteit Brussel. Deze dag staat in teken van recente ontwikkelingen in de demografie en geeft ervaren én jonge onderzoekers de kans hun werk voor te stellen...

Maybe you never questioned your salary or compensation package as a PhD-candidate, but when you consider venturing out of academia after completing your PhD, you will want to be informed about what to expect and how to negotiate for what you want/deserve, because the question ‘What...

Activity type: Content Seminar / Workshop...

A global movement where people share stories of professional failure. During this edition no professors will tell you about their fuck-ups, but fellow brave PhD candidates and doctorate holders now working outside academia. They will tell their story in 7 minutes using 10 images....

Young researchers are almost inevitably confronted with questions and...

This masterclass invites PhD-researchers with interests in studying dynamics of gender, religion and secularism in Western public spaces in disciplines like sociology, urban studies, gender studies, anthropology, social geography or philosophy. Participants can receive feedback and...

Statistics for research and data analysis2018-2019...

Usually logical methods are seen as part and parcel of mathematical methods, but that view is too limited. Logic deals with an evaluation of the quality, including correctness, of all kinds of reasonings and argumentations, including as a borderline case, proof. Many examples will...

During a 12-hour course (4 modules of each 3 hours, divided over 2 days)  I will provide an introduction into Confirmatory Factor Analysis (CFA), the Mplus-language, and the application of CFA in Mplus.

A space to build qualitative research expertise by sharing and learning from each other.

This seminar (based on a combination of lecture and Q&A) focusses on the use of expert interviews in the humanities and social sciences. Although expert interviews are often used, there is little methodological work setting them apart of other interview techniques. This seminar...

Name of lecturer: Prof dr Leo Van Audenhove...

The course aims at familiarizing PhD students of ‘dead’ languages (e.g. Latin, Ancient Greek) or previous stages of modern languages (e.g. Old Dutch, Old/Middle English, Bantu-languages) with modern linguistic frameworks (corpus linguistics, functional linguistics, cognitive...

This seminar is intended for doctoral students and other researchers who are on the verge of or recently started writing qualitative research papers for publication in academic journals. Hence, researchers who have published academic papers successfully might find (parts of) this...

Are you eager to use R for your statistical analyses, but don’t know where and how to start? Then this short workshop is ideal for you!...

Qualtrics is an online platform that researchers can use to collect data online and build surveys and experiments. This practical workshop aims to get you started with Qualtrics. First, the basic features of Qualtrics are discussed, such as types of questions. Secondly, we will...

The XXV EURO Working Group on Locational Analysis meeting (EWGLA 2019) will be held in Brussels (Belgium) on June 5-7, 2019. This meeting intends to gather the operational research community from different parts of the world to share experiences in the field of locational analysis....

The XXVth Annual Forum of the Young Legal Historians aims to shed light on these questions by looking at the legal history of the closely intertwined concepts of citizenship and legal history. Throughout history, citizenship and identity has been defined in different ways and at...

Textbook definitions of discourse analysis generally characterize the field as heterogeneous and constituted of a wide range of assumptions, approaches and methodologies. Reflecting the rising popularity of discourse analysis within social sciences, definitions of ‘discourse’...

It’s time to take a closer look at the “epistemic subject” as an explanatory concept and how it may fare in explaining entities beyond individuals.

The goal of this workshop is to get a better understanding of the causes and effects of energy transitions in early modern Europe seen from a household perspective. It welcomes papers tackling the relation between energy and material culture from a wide range of approaches:...

This hands-on workshop aims to expand your communications skillset to get the most out of your relationship with your PhD promotor(s). This workshop will discuss tips and tricks on how to communicate better in general (e.g., active listening, perspective taking, personal conflict...

The two masterclasses are organized in collaboration between the Vrije Universiteit Brussel, and Ghent University with support from ECREA sections International and Intercultural Communication (IIC) and Diaspora, migration and the media (DMM). The two masterclasses precede and will...