Intensive seminar on Critical Discourse Studies

Intensive seminar on Critical Discourse Studies

The Greek Politics Specialist Group (GPSG) of the UK’s Political Studies Association and the Centre for Political Research, Panteion University are co-organising a two-day intensive seminar from 30th November – 1st December on research methods. The course is designed to help doctoral and advanced postgraduate students to develop their research skills in research methods and more specifically on critical discourse analysis.

 

Seminar: Analysing text and discourse

Athens, 8-10 January 2020

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The Greek Politics Specialist Group (GPSG) of the UK’s Political Studies Association and the Centre for Political Research, Panteion University are co-organising a three-day intensive seminar from the 8th until the 10th of January on research methods. The course is designed to help doctoral and advanced postgraduate students to develop their research skills in research methods and more specifically on analysing text and discourse. The course will follow an analytical approach in order to explore political issues and help participants interested in language and discourse to develop a clear understanding on how to implement key approaches and tools in order to extrapolate the role language plays in social reality. More specifically methods that will be explored are content and discourse analysis. Because much is learned by doing, this course has a significant ‘hands-on’ component. The required readings of the course consist of peer-reviewed journal articles and selected chapters from the textbook. We will read both theoretical articles on qualitative methodology and empirical articles in which such methods are employed.

At the end of the course, students should have improved their understanding of and ability to assess the debate over the appropriate use of text analysis in political science, as well as their ability to carry out qualitative research.

 Applicants should email the following material to Vassiliki Georgiadou (This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.) and Stella Ladi (This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.) no later than 29/11/2019.

·       A short Curriculum Vitae (max two pages)

·       A short cover letter (max one page) in which applicants explain how their participation in the seminar benefits their research.

Successful applicants will be notified by email only by 13/12/19. Selected applicants must be able to confirm their participation within a week of acceptance. The seminar will accommodate about 15 participants. 

The working language will be Greek and English. Participants are required to bring their own laptop. The seminar will take place at the venue of the Centre for Political Research at Panteion University.

Deadline extended to December 6, 2019

The full seminar programme will be made available shortly.  

 

 

 

Seminar: Using Experiments in Social Sciences

Athens, 16-17 May 2019

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Τhe Centre for Political Research of Panteion University in collaboration with the Greek Politics Specialist Group (GPSG) of the UK's Political Studies Association are co-organizing a two-day intensive seminar delving into theory, methods and techniques of experimental research in Social Sciences. During the last years, experiments have been developing into a fundamental and innovative methodological tool in Social Sciences. This seminar will offer the opportunity to doctoral students and advanced postgraduate students to acquire or deepen their knowledge of conceptual and empirical perspectives related to experimental research by focusing particularly on the field of Political Science. Which steps should be followed in order to create an experimental research design? Why are the concepts of causality and validity significant for an experimental design? Are there different kinds of experiments? These are a few of the substantive queries which will be covered and discussed through the theoretical and lab sessions of this seminar.

Confirmed seminar speakers include:

Tereza Capelos (keynote speaker), Senior Lecturer, University of Birmingham

Yannis Tsirbas, Lecturer, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens

Eleni Georgakakou, Researcher and Project Manager, Associate of the National Centre for Social Research

 

Applicants should email the following material to Vassiliki Georgiadou (This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.) and Stella Ladi (This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.) no later than 12 April 2019.

·      A short Curriculum Vitae (max two pages)

·      A short cover letter (max one page) in which applicants explain how their participation in the seminar benefits their research.

Successful applicants will be notified by email only by 19 April 2019. Selected applicants must be able to confirm their participation within a week of acceptance. The seminar will accommodate about 15 participants. 

The working language will be Greek and English. Participants are required to bring their own laptop. The seminar will take place at the venue of the Centre for Political Research at Panteion University.

The full seminar programme will be made available shortly.

 

QoG Expert Survey Data

The Quality of Government Institute at the University of Gothenburg, Sweden, seeks to enhance research on quality of government -- how it is created and how it influences public policy. As part of this endeavor, during the 2014-2015 years the Institute was conducting a web survey of a global panel of experts on the quality of government in various countries. 
  
We are grateful to all local experts for your contribution and time which you spent for the survey.  All replies have been treated with strictest confidentiality, and your personal information will in no way be publicly revealed. 
  
The results of the survey are released and you can find it by going to the webpage at: http://qog.pol.gu.se/data/datadownloads/qogexpertsurveydata 
  
The data is presented in Individual-Level and in aggregated Country-Level. You can download it in two different formats (.dta for Stata and .sav for SPSS), as well as in common data exchange format .csv. The codebook  provides detailed descriptions of questions. The report  provides information on the questionnaire design and data collection, summary of the data, including some basic facts about the respondents, evaluations of potential respondent perception bias, and the results of the data validation through the data from the QoG expert Survey I and external data. 
  
Feel free to share results of the survey with your colleagues and people, who can be interested in it. 
  
We would like to thank all local experts for their input to the survey. The survey provided vital data set with information on the structure and behaviour of public administration in a range of different countries. It opens new perspectives for researchers to study urgent issues in political science. 
  
For more information about the Quality of Government Institute at the University of Gothenburg, Sweden, see our web page: www.qog.pol.gu.se 
 

Lecturer in Social Science/History of Modern Greece

Yale University,

The Hellenic Studies Program, European Studies Council,
The Whitney and Betty and MacMillan Center for International and Area Studies,


The Hellenic Studies Program (HSP) at The MacMillan Center of Yale University, seeks a Lecturer with expertise in any field of the social sciences and history, for a three year appointment, renewable for a second three-year term, beginning on July 1, 2015.