Upcoming courses and activities 2024 and 2025
Gender, Development and Environmental Governance (PNG0042), 8.5 ECTS
5 August – 13 September 2024
Contact: Seema Arora Jonsson
The course will:
- Introduce you to gender issues in environmental governance, agriculture and development in a global perspective and explore interconnections between gender, environmental governance and development in multiple contexts and spaces
- Provide you with methods and tools for power and gender analysis in an increasingly interconnected and world and
- Allow you to focus on a project in course discussions that is directly related to your research and area of work
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16 September – 18 October 2024
Contact: Harry Fischer
The course will provide a foundation in political ecology as a key field of critical human-environmental analysis. The course will trace its intellectual development from the 1980s until the present day, while exploring some of the theoretical strands and analytical approaches that form the broader “political ecology” toolkit. Students will learn how political ecology analysis has been used to analyze key human-environmental challenges of the present era and gain experience in applying political ecology analysis to their own field of study. The course will also explore recent theoretical developments and identify areas for further theoretical development in the study of socio-environmental transformations.
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31 October – 22 November 2024
Contact: Örjan Bartholdson
The course offers a general introduction to philosophies of social sciences, describing and analysing distinct scientific paradigms and perspectives. The students will be introduced to the major philosophical paradigms of social science, with a specific focus on the contexts, contents, arguments, and main concepts and assumptions. There will also be a focus on how researchers position themselves in relation to the field, as well as on how distinct paradigms of philosophies of science have tackled problems related to ontology, epistemology and interpretation. Furthermore, the course will discuss the connections between philosophy of science and social theory, with a distinct focus on the development of these connections during the last decades.
October – December 2024
Contact: Jens Rommel
The course will introduce students to discrete choice experiments and their applications in Agricultural, Food, and Environmental Economics. The course will be given by Julian Sagebiel, but please reach out to Jens for organizational questions.
January – February 2025
Contact: Jens Rommel
The course will introduce students to common scientific (mal)practices and remedies. The course will be given by Felix Holzmeister, but please reach out to Jens for organizational questions.
Activities offered together with other NJ-faculty research schools:
How to become a postdoc, one day workshop
TBA
Organized together with the research schools at the NJ faculty
Career Outside the University for PhDs (seminar)
TBA
Organized together with the research schools at the NJ faculty
Thesis summary writing workshop
TBA
Organized together with the research schools at the NJ faculty
TBA
Organized together with the research schools at the NJ faculty
Want to arrange a PhD student driven activity or offer a course in our research school?
Contact: Jens Rommel and Harry Fischer