1st Spring School in Research Methodology
14 – 15 – 16 march 2024
Lecce, Italy
School overview
The school offers PhD students and young academics in different research fields the opportunity to interactively build their learning and training paths in research, with a specific focus on pre-methodological and methodological issues.
The school is organized around the following main phases:
Bases
How to write an academic article and how to publish in international scientific journals.
Design
How to effectively address the research problem, what research design is and what it is not, how to make sure everything is properly structured before focusing and addressing the study writing.
Approaches and Methods
How to choose between methods of qualitative and quantitative research and between different research-action approaches, how to face the challenge of working with integrated/combined approaches beyond the stereotyped research ‘divide’ which characterizes most scientific studies. Based on the participants’ background, trending topics in different fields of research will be addressed through talks by leading scholars through a methodological perspective.
Publish your study
“Publish your study” is an opportunity to meet skilled researchers in an interesting, engaging and approachable environment in order to be supported and accompanied in the process of submitting, revising and publishing a study in international indexed journals.
School happy hour
The “school happy hour” is thought of as a free peer-to-peer conversation among young scholars, held by the school participant, which runs during the breaks between the morning and afternoon sessions, while drinking coffee and snacks.
Scientific Committee
Pier Paolo Miglietta
University of Salento (Italy)
Maria Grazia Gnoni
University of Salento (Italy)
Mladen Dragan Krstić
University of Belgrade (Serbia)
Mariantonietta Fiore
University of Foggia (Italy)
Deborah Bentivoglio
University Politecnica delle Marche (Italy)
Maria Antonietta Sbordone
University of Campania "L. Vanvitelli" (Italy)
Tomas Baležentis
Vilnius Gediminas Technical University (Lithuania)
Giulio Paolo Agnusdei
University of Bologna (Italy)
Giovanni Schiuma
University LUM 'G. Degennaro' (Italy)
Fabiana Tornese
University of Salento (Italy)
Programme
14 march 2024
Registration of the participants / 14:00 – 14:30
Institutional greetings and Opening of the 1st Spring School in Research Methodology / 14:30 – 15.00
1st Session / 15:00 – 18:00
How to start: writing an introduction
Writing a theoretical framework/background
Coffee break
Qualitative research methods
Quantitative research methods
15 march 2024
1st Session / 9:00 – 13:00
Learn the basics of MCDM theory
Coffee break
Implement AHP, ANP and TOPSIS methods to a real-life problem and apply the method in practice
Lunch break at Gusto Liberrima / 13:00 – 14:00
2nd Session / 14:00 – 17:00
Design the problem structure and questionnaire (student project)
Coffee break
Make comparisons and evaluations (student project)
Social dinner at Scante – Trattoria con Aperitivo / 20:00 – 23:00
16 march 2024
1st Session / 9:00 – 13:00
Use the computer programs (SuperDecision and Excel) to build the problem solving model (student project)
Coffee break
Apply the MCDM model to your research problem (student project)
Lunch break at Gusto Liberrima / 13:00 – 14:00
2nd Session / 14:00 – 17:00
Individual project presentations (comments for improvement, corrections, etc.)
Awarding of the certificates to the school participants
17:00 – 17:30 Closing of the 1st Spring School in Research Methodology
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