Grounded Theory

Institution: see Organisers & Supporters

Programme of study: International Research Workshop

Lecturer: Dr.Paulo Gilberto Rescher (University of Hamburg)

Date: see Workshop Programme

Max. number of participants: 20

Credit Points: 5 CP for participating in the whole IRWS

Language of instruction: English

Contents: This workshop offers a comprehensive introduction to Grounded Theory, considering its possible application in manifold fields and contexts of study and the feasibility of combining it with diverse research techniques (mainly qualitative and ethnographic ones). The focus will be on the basic methodological stance and the entire process, starting with the research design, the collection of material with an exploratory character, up to the multi-layered process of analysis, which leads to the theorisation of results with a so-called medium-range approach. The workshop is equally oriented towards “beginners” interested in learning about the basic epistemological perspective of Grounded Theory and its practice, as well as towards participants who already have a more profound knowledge of Grounded Theory or have already applied this methodology in research and wish to discuss specific aspects or questions that have arisen in research practice. Experience has shown that this diversity of participants means that all groups can benefit from each other’s experiences, questions, and doubts. Accordingly, the workshop will be adjusted to participants’ needs.

Hence, we will first discuss basic concepts and procedures such as research design, data collection, coding, categorisation, memo writing, theoretical sampling and theoretical saturation. Afterwards, these concepts will be clarified through practical exercises using examples, ideally provided by the participants. Therefore, participants with concrete research projects (be they planned or already put into practice) are invited to share their ideas, design and material to (further) develop the research practice among the group. If you are interested in presenting examples, please get in touch with Gilberto Rescher in English, German, Spanish or Portuguese (gilberto.rescher@uni-hamburg.de).

Gilberto Rescher will also highlight his own research experiences in areas such as diversity, politics, migration, and gender, with a focus on Latin America, to demonstrate how grounded theory can serve as an important guideline for research and analysis within a broader methodological framework. Accordingly, exemplary cases from the literature will also be drawn upon.

For successful participation, engaging in a qualitative, exploratory paradigm and discussing the cases presented in the workshop is necessary.

In addition to your registration, please answer the following questions (English or German):

  • What is your current status (e.g. PhD student)?
  • What is the focus of your interest in Grounded Theory?
  • What sort of content and feedback do you expect?

As a brief preparation for the workshop, the short text on Anselm Strauss or Grounded Theory can be read in one of the editions of “Qualitative Forschung: Ein Handbuch” by Flick et al.

You must register for the International Research Workshop to participate in this course.

Qualitative Research Methods

Institution: see Organisers & Supporters

Programme of study: International Research Workshop

Lecturer: Prof. Dr. Fabian Hattke (University of Bergen, Norway)

Date: see Workshop Programme

Max. number of participants: 20

Credit Points: 5 CP for participating in the whole IRWS

Language of instruction: English

Contents: The purpose of this course is to familiarise participants with the basic characteristics of qualitative research. The course introduces the methodological and practical aspects of various forms of qualitative research, including case studies, discourse analyses, interviews, observations, qualitative meta-synthesis, theory building and sampling strategies. It also addresses practical challenges, including the development of research questions, the application of various coding approaches, the use of technical tools, and ethical considerations.

Recommended literature and pre-readings:

  • Adler, P. S., Forbes, L. C., & Willmott, H. (2007). Critical management studies. Academy of Management Annals, 1(1), 119-179.
  • Alvesson, M., & Karreman, D. (2000). Varieties of discourse: On the study of organizations through discourse analysis. Human Relations, 53(9), 1125-1149.
  • Corbin, J., & Strauss, A. (2014). Basics of qualitative research: Techniques and procedures for developing grounded theory. Sage Publications.
  • Eisenhardt, K. M. (1989). Building theories from case study research. Academy of Management Review, 14(4), 532-550.
  • Flick, U., von Kardoff, E., & Steinke, I. (Eds.). (2004). A companion to qualitative research. Sage.
  • Hoon, C. (2013). Meta-synthesis of qualitative case studies: An approach to theory building. Organizational Research Methods, 16(4), 522-556.
  • Mayring, P. (2004). Qualitative content analysis. A companion to qualitative research. Forum: Qualitative Social Research, 1, 159-176.
  • Sandelowski, M., & Barroso, J. (2006). Handbook for synthesizing qualitative research. Springer Publishing.
  • Wodak, R., & Meyer, M. (Eds.). (2015). Methods of critical discourse studies. Sage.
  • Yin, R. K. (2017). Case study research and applications: Design and methods. Sage Publications.

You must register for the International Research Workshop to participate in this course.

Data Analysis with Stata

Institution: see Organisers & Supporters

Programme of study: International Research Workshop

Lecturer: Jenny Hahs (University of Duisburg-Essen)

Date: see Workshop Programme

Max. number of participants: 20

Credit Points: 5 CP for participating in the whole IRWS

Language of instruction: English

Contents: Stata is a statistical program package widely used (not only) in the social and economic sciences; it is used for data management, statistical graphics, and quantitative data analysis. Statistical concepts will not be covered in the course, so participants should have a basic understanding of statistics. The course should enable participants to prepare their data for analysis, perform adequate analysis using a statistical computer program, and document these tasks to ensure reproducibility.

For Beginners with no or very little Stata knowledge!

Course topics cover:

  • “What You Type Is What You Get”: Basic Stata Command Syntax
  • Getting (and Understanding) Help within Stata: Stata Built-in Help System
  • Basic Data Management: Load and Save Stata Datasets, Generate and Manipulate Variables, Describe and Label Data and Variables, Perform Basic uni- and bivariate Analyses, and Change the Structure of your Data.
  • Basic Stata Graphics: Scatterplot, Histogram, Bar Chart
  • Working with “Do-” and “Log-” Files

A prerequisite for students: Statistical concepts will not be covered in the course, so participants should have a basic understanding of statistics.

Recommended literature and pre-readings: None.

You must register for the International Research Workshop to participate in this course.

2 DAAD GSSP Scholarships for Doctoral Candidates

DAAD GSSP Scholarship

The scholarships are available from 1 October 2025 for up to four years.

We welcome applications from candidates aiming to write their doctoral thesis at the Bamberg Graduate School of Social Sciences. The school supports scholarship holders through personal mentoring, workshops and support services.

The Bamberg Graduate School of Social Sciences is a multidisciplinary Graduate School funded by the Bavarian State. We seek to stimulate and guide cutting-edge doctoral research on some of the most crucial challenges modern knowledge-based societies are facing.

Specialised research agendas have been grouped into four thematic pillars:
PILLAR 1: Education, personal development and learning from early childhood to adulthood
PILLAR 2: Educational and social inequality across the entire life course
PILLAR 3: Changes in human capital, labour markets and demographic structures and their relation to social structures in modern societies
PILLAR 4: Governance, institutional change and political behaviour

// QUALIFICATION AND REQUIREMENTS:
Requirements
We invite applications by highly qualified graduates from the fields of Sociology, Psychology, Educational Science, Political Science, Labour and Educational Economics, Demography and Statistics. Candidates must hold a Master’s degree (or equivalent) in one of the aforementioned subjects or be very close to completion and should not have lived in Germany for more than 15 months by the start of the membership.

Successful applicants will be required to take up their residence in Bamberg, a city noted for its high quality of life and great conditions for research and study. DAAD Scholarships amount to a monthly stipend of 1,300 EUR, plus other allowances according to the DAAD guidelines.

The Graduate School is committed to diversity, equal opportunities and the compatibility of family and career.

For further information about the Bamberg Graduate School of Social Sciences, the application process and the required documents, please visit our website at
https://www.uni-bamberg.de/en/bagss/application/daad-scholarship/

The deadline for the submission of your application is Monday, 10 March 2025.

GIGA Training Programm – Winter Term 2024/2025

We are happy to announce the GIGA Training Programme for this winter term. Check below a list of all the courses available.

An Introduction to Critical Discourse Studies: Texts, Contexts and Power
Date and time: 23-24 October 2024, 9: 00 – 17:00 (23.10) and 9:00 – 14:00 (24.10)
Place: GIGA, in person
Register here

Qualitative Comparative Analysis (QCA): Performing Basic Analyses using R
Date and time: 28-29 October 2024, 10:00 – 17:00
Place: GIGA, in person
Register here

Introduction to Process Tracing Methods
Date and time: 16-17 December 2024, 10:00 – 17:00
Place: GIGA, in person
Register here

The registration deadline is Friday, 4 October. Please note that you will be informed only afterwards about successful registrations. If you have any related questions, you can contact Maren Wagner at maren.wagner@giga-hamburg.de

GIGA German Institute of Global and Area Studies
Neuer Jungfernstieg 21
20354 Hamburg

Grant Writing Stipend for Postdoctoral Researchers

The BAGSS Grant Writing Stipend for Postdoctoral Researchers is awarded for twelve months with the option of a six-month extension, starting from 01 April 2025. In individual cases, the starting date may be up to three months after that if necessary. The stipend amounts to 2,500 EUR per month. In addition, grant recipients are provided with office space and necessary equipment at BAGSS.

During the initial twelve-month period, recipients are expected to develop an excellent project proposal and submit it to an external funding body, e.g. the German Research Foundation (DFG). The grant proposal must include funding for the applicant’s own position afterwards, e.g. via an Emmy Noether Junior Research Group (DFG), an ERC Starting Grant, or a Temporary Position for Principal Investigators (“Eigene Stelle”, DFG). The Stipend is automatically extended for six months if the proposal has been submitted to an external funding body within the initial funding period.

//REQUIREMENTS & QUALIFICATINS

The Bamberg Graduate School welcomes applications from postdoctoral researchers who hold a doctoral degree in the fields of Sociology, Psychology, Education, Political Science, Labour and Educational Economics and Demography. Qualified postdoctoral researchers of related subjects with a strong Social Science background are also encouraged to apply. We invite researchers whose research project fits into the research profile of at least one of our School’s four Pillars. Projects cutting across two (or more) Pillars are equally welcomed.

Specialised research agendas have been grouped into four thematic pillars:
PILLAR 1: Education, personal development and learning from early childhood to adulthood
PILLAR 2: Educational and social inequality across the entire life course
PILLAR 3: Changes in human capital, labour markets and demographic structures and their impact on social structures in modern societies
PILLAR 4: Governance, institutional change and political behaviour

A detailed list of topics that will be supervised by professors in our four pillars can be found here:
www.uni-bamberg.de/bagss/application/topics

The Graduate School is committed to diversity, equal opportunities and the compatibility of family and career within its statutory obligations.

For further information about the Bamberg Graduate School of Social Sciences, the application process and the required documents, please visit our website at
https://www.uni-bamberg.de/en/bagss/application/grant-writing-stipend-for-postdoctoral-researchers/

The deadline for the submission of your application is Friday, 1 November 2024.

ReMaT – Research Management Training for Early-Stage Scientists on 14 & 15 November 2024 – online event

ReMaT is an intensive, interactive workshop, providing an introduction to a number of key topics relating to research management including project management, grant acquisition, and science and technology related entrepreneurship. ReMaT is especially tailored to meet the needs of early-stage researchers especially from the 2nd year of PhD studies onwards, but is also suitable for others involved in research, or in directing research. ReMaT delivers hands-on practical training in an intensive, yet effective workshop form over two days. There is a strong emphasis on European networking in the way the workshop is delivered: we encourage participation from many different countries and disciplines.

Tutech Innovation which is organising the workshop was founded in 1992 as the technology transfer institute for the Hamburg University of Technology. TUTECH ACADEMY workshops on technology transfer and innovation and research management are designed to equip participants with practical skills for taking on these roles.

More information and registration

ReMaT – research management training for early-career researchers

ReMaT – Research Management Training for Early-Stage Scientists on 14 & 15 November 2024 – online event

ReMaT is an intensive, interactive workshop, providing an introduction to a number of key topics relating to research management including project management, grant acquisition, and science and technology related entrepreneurship. ReMaT is especially tailored to meet the needs of early-stage researchers especially from the 2nd year of PhD studies onwards, but is also suitable for others involved in research, or in directing research. ReMaT delivers hands-on practical training in an intensive, yet effective workshop form over two days. There is a strong emphasis on European networking in the way the workshop is delivered: we encourage participation from many different countries and disciplines.

Tutech Innovation which is organising the workshop was founded in 1992 as the technology transfer institute for the Hamburg University of Technology.
TUTECH ACADEMY workshops on technology transfer and innovation and research management are designed to equip participants with practical skills for taking on these roles.

More information and registration

VHB ProDok Kurse

Philosophy of Science –

Foundations and Implications for Research Designs and Research Methods

Die wissenschaftstheoretische Analyse ist eine Grundlage für die Beurteilung eigener und fremder Forschungsleistungen. Während jedoch bei der Lektüre eines wissenschaftlichen Aufsatzes oder Monographie die eingesetzten Methoden, wie z.B. ein Fragebogen zur Erhebung von Daten oder eine Regressionsanalyse zur Auswertung von Daten, zu dokumentieren sind, wird die zugrunde liegende wissenschaftstheoretische Position häufig nicht einmal erwähnt. Wer sich jedoch mit Begründungsansprüchen wissenschaftlicher Forschung und ihrer Methoden auseinandersetzen will, kommt um eine Beschäftigung mit eben diesen Positionen nicht herum. Insbesondere bei mixed-method-Studien werden zudem solche Expositionen auch von Gutachtern und Journal-Editoren zunehmend eingefordert.

Ziel des Kurses ist es daher, die Teilnehmer und Teilnehmerinnen mit den wesentlichen wissenschaftstheoretischen Strömungen und ihren für die Wissenschaft wesentlichen ontologischen und epistemologischen Positionen vertraut zu machen. Der Einstieg ins Thema erfolgt auf der Basis dreier Leitfragen im Rahmen eines „World Cafés“, die den Verlauf des Kurses strukturieren. Die Grundlagen der Wissenschaftstheorie werden von einem Dozenten vorgestellt und dienen einer gemeinsamen Diskussionsbasis für die verschiedenen Positionen. Anschließend werden die verschiedenen Strömungen der Wissenschaftstheorie und ihre wesentlichen Implikationen für die Forschungsmethoden und das Forschungsdesign durch die Teilnehmenden präsentiert, wobei jeweils Themenschwerpunkte gebildet werden. Die individuellen Präsentationen dienen dann als Grundlage für die anschließende gemeinsame Diskussion und ggf. thematische Erweiterung durch die Dozenten.

Eine wesentliche Zielsetzung des Kurses ist es, für die verschiedenen Strömungen der Wissenschaftstheorie zu sensibilisieren und grundlegende Kenntnisse über verschiedene wissenschaftstheoretische Begründungsstrategien zu vermitteln, um eine kritische Reflektion über die eigene wissenschaftliche Forschung zu ermöglichen. Obwohl der Schwerpunkt des Kurses auf der Diskussion philosophischer (wissenschaftstheoretischer) Positionen liegt, ist es ein weiteres Anliegen des Kurses, deren Bedeutung für die wissenschaftliche Praxis zu thematisieren und anhand praktischer Beispiele zu analysieren.

 

Für diesen Kurs ist eine 18- bis 20-seitige schriftliche Ausarbeitung, eine 30-minütige Präsentation sowie leitende Fragen für die anschließende Diskussion vorzubereiten, die von den Vortragenden moderiert wird.

Zeitnah nach der Anmeldefrist werden die Themen verteilt.

 

Datum:

05. – 08. November 2024

Ort:

Harnack-Haus Tagungsstätte der Max-Planck-Gesellschaft
Ihnestr. 16-20
14195 Berlin

 

Kurssprache:

Deutsch

Referenten:

Prof. Dr. Rolf Brühl,

Lehrstuhl für Unternehmensethik und Controlling, ESCP Business School Berlin,
rbruehl@escp.eu

Prof. Dr. Thomas Wrona,
Institut für Strategisches & Internationales Management, Technische Universität Hamburg,
thomas.wrona@tuhh.de

Anmeldefrist:

Klicken Sie hier für Informationen zu Gebühren, Zahlung und Anmeldung,
oder schreiben Sie uns eine E-Mail: prodok@vhbonline.org.,

 

Anmeldefrist: 31. Juli 2024

VHB ProDok Kurse

Advanced Topics and Experimental Methods in Consumer Research

This course provides an overview of research methods and theories in consumer behavior. The topics covered in this seminar should be of interest to doctoral students studying Business, Psychology, Organization Behavior, and Marketing.

The course has two major goals:

  1. To expose students to research in specific areas of consumer research and marketing and to familiarize them with findings in these areas. These broad areas are emotions, sustainable consumer behavior, and human-computer interactions.
  2. To equip students with abilities to conceptualize, design and implement original consumer behavior research, particularly experimental research.

Students will read a set of core readings in order to gain knowledge of relevant theoretical foundations, methodological norms, and most recent findings. We will discuss papers published at top journals in consumer behavior, marketing, management, and psychology. One of the best ways for doctoral candidates to understand a research area is to critically review articles describing research in that area. The course will challenge students to adopt a critical stance when reading papers. This approach provides a deeper understanding of specific issues, a better appreciation of the research process, and training in research skills. During the discussion of the key articles on each topic, students will be challenged to review these articles. The class discussion will evaluate the articles and the reviews.

Students will learn to identify gaps in the literature or to apply a research problem to unexplored related phenomena.

Moreover, the second aim of this course is that students develop their own actionable research question and methodological plan. For this, they will be able to collect first data in the lab (BreLab) for their idea(s) (if physical course is possible), with the group and recruited students serving as participants in the respective experiments. If time-wise not possible, an online data collection will be done. Students will present their idea and potential results and give one another feedback on these ideas.

After completing this course, students will be able to define research questions in various domains of consumer behavior and in different empirical settings, they will know how to implement their research questions into an actionable experimental design, and they will be aware of potential problems and (dis)advantages in their research design.

Date:

25. – 27. September 2024 (Präsenz)

7. Oktober 2024 (Online)

 

Location:

Universität Bremen
WiWi2 F3290
Enrique-Schmidt-Str. 1
28359 Bremen

Language:

English

Lecturer:

Prof. Dr. Kristina Klein

University of Bremen

Registration:

Click for information on fees, payment and registration,
or email us: prodok@vhbonline.org.

Registration Deadline: 25. August 2024