DSh Doctoral School

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 one-day symposium on hot topics in the field of statistics and methodology with prominent speakers from academia, non-profit and industry, as well as policy makers. Topics from previous meetings included privacy (GDPR) legislation (2018), social media (2017) and the use of p...

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...

The rights to privacy and the right to data protection play a crucial role in EU policy-making, as well as in the case law of the CJEU, and have acquired an increasingly significant importance. There is, however, a persistent lack of clarity on what these fundamental rights...

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...

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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!...

On May 27th 2019, the faculty of Arts and Philosophy, with the support of the Doctoral School of the Human Sciences, will organize the third edition of its yearly PhD event

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...

Action is a key dimension of the human being. Situated beyond the mere adaptive or instinctive behavior characteristic of most animals, human action is crucially mediated by language. In this regard, the question on action can be formulated as follows: are the main reasons that...

Company visit D-sense: where research skills are valued...

This seminar is intended for researchers who seek a general introduction in developing interview questions, and conducting qualitative interviews. Through lecturing, practical exercises in small groups and discussion of specific examples of qualitative interviews, participants will...

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...