SGH Doctoral Summer School

OBJECTIVES

The objective of the SGH Doctoral Summer School on contemporary challenges in politics, business, and economy is to offer doctoral students an in-depth insight into key issues, challenges and approaches pertaining to research in politics, business and economy today. Apart from seminars, the SGH Doctoral Summer School will feature also workshops on selected research methods. The participants will have the opportunity to receive feedback on their research proposals too.

STRUCTURE

The event will consist of seminars and workshops (overall 30 teaching hours) addressing such issues and topics as:

Seminars:
• Feminist foreign policy: issues and developments
• Discursive approaches and the ethics of doing discourse analysis
• How ideas shape policy and policies?
• Social policy responses to global emergencies
• How expectations matter and how to measure them?
• Comparative political economy: From varieties of capitalism to growth models
• Comparative political economy: A variety of theoretical approaches

Workshops on methods:
• Narrative analysis: feminist and strategic narratives
• The policy feedback approach
• Measuring expectations in social science research
• How expectations matter and how to measure them?
• Process tracing: A qualitative method for studying causal mechanisms
• Data collection for process tracing

SPEAKERS

The seminars and workshops will be delivered by distinguished and highly respected scholars, including (in alphabetical order):
• Annika Bergman-Rosamond, Ph.D., University of Edinburgh
• Daniel Béland, Ph.D., McGill University
• Marek Naczyk, Ph.D., University of Oxford
• Elias Tsakas, Ph.D., Maastricht University

APPLICATION DEADLINE

The application deadline is June 10, 2024.

FEES (no fees)

Thanks to the funding from the Polish National Agency for Academic Exchange’s (NAWA) project STER, participation in the Summer Doctoral School is free of charge. The participants must, however, cover their travel and accommodation expenses.

ADMISSIONS

Interested PhD students are asked to fill in the online application form (available here). Following the initial screening, selected candidates will be asked to submit their doctoral research proposals, outlining the focus of their planned research and intended methods. We accept a broad range of topics from the disciplines of politics, economics, and business. Research proposals should be written in English and should be no longer than 5 000
characters (ca 3 pages), including spaces. Admission decisions will be made based on the quality of the received research proposals.

Typically, the research proposal will cover the following points:
• the research problem the candidate wishes to address,
• theoretical and practical reasons for selecting the problem,
• the problem’s background in the literature – what gaps in scientific knowledge the candidate intends to fill with his/her research project,
• a tentative set of research hypotheses,
• optionally – a graphical model illustrating the variables included in the study, their relationships and research hypotheses (similar to what is usually included in good empirical papers),
• research methods proposed for testing the research hypotheses.

REGISTRATION FORM:

https://forms.office.com/e/8NvGPZMkxP CONTACT doctoral-summer-school-2024@sgh.waw.pl

More information can be found at:

https://doctoral-internationalisation.sgh.waw.pl/sgh-doctoral-summer-school-contemporary-challenges-politics-business-and-economy

Looking forward to receiving your submissions,

Very kind regards,

prof. dr hab. Marzanna Witek-Hajduk

Prodziekan Szkoły Doktorskiej

Kierownik Katedry Biznesu Międzynarodowego

Kierownik Podyplomowych Studiów Zarządzania Marką

Deputy dean of the Doctoral School

Chair of the International Business Department