SGH Doctoral Summer School on contemporary challenges in politics, business and economy

2024-07-08

PROGRAM & CALL FOR APPLICATIONS

Event date: 08-12.07.2024

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.

VENUE & DATE

The SGH Doctoral Summer School on contemporary challenges in politics, business, and economy, will be held in the SGH Warsaw School of Economics, Warsaw, Poland, on July 8-12, 2024.

STRUCTURE

The event will consist of seminars and workshops (overall 30 teaching hours).

SGH Doctoral Summer School on contemporary challenges in politics, business, and economy

08-12.07.2023

Venue: SGH Warsaw School of Economics, building “G”, Al. Niepodległości 162, 02-554 Warsaw, Poland

PROGRAM

Day 1: 08.07.2024 \| room: 152
12:00-12:30	Registration
12:30-13:00	Opening session: house rules, program, introduction
13:00-14:00	Icebreaker session
14:00-14:30	coffee break
14:30-16:00	prof. Annika Bergman-Rosamond \|Mapping, understanding, and explaining contemporary challenges in politics, international relations, and development
16:00-16:15	break
16:15-17:45	prof. Annika Bergman-Rosamond \| Feminist foreign policy: issues and developments
Day 2: 09.07.2024 \| room: 152
9:00-10:30	prof. Annika Bergman-Rosamond \| Discursive approaches and the ethics of doing discourse analysis
10:30-11:00	coffee break
11:00-12:30	prof. Annika Bergman-Rosamond \| Workshop on methods: Narrative analysis: feminist and strategic narratives
12:30-13:15	lunch
13:15-14.45	prof. Daniel Beland \| How ideas shape policy and policies?
14:45-15:00	break
15:00-16:30	prof. Daniel Beland \| Policy feedback: How policies shape politics?
16:30-17:00	POSTER SESSION
Day 3: 10.07.2024 \| room: 152
09.00-10:30	prof. Daniel Beland \|Social policy responses to global emergencies
10:30-11:00	coffee break
11:00-12:30	prof. Daniel Beland \| Workshop on methods: The policy feedback approach
12:30-13:15	lunch
13:15-14:45	prof. Elias Tsakas \| How expectations matter and how to measure them?
14:45-15:00	break
15:00-16:30	prof. Elias Tsakas \|How expectations matter and how to measure them?
16:30-17:00	POSTER SESSION
Day 4: 11.07.2024 \| room: 152
09:00-10:30	prof. Elias Tsakas \|Workshop on methods: Measuring expectations in social science research
10:30-11:00	coffee break
11:00-12:30	prof. Elias Tsakas \| Workshop on methods (cntd): How expectations matter and how to measure them?
12:30-13:15	lunch
13:15-14:45	prof. Marek Naczyk\| Comparative political economy: From varieties of capitalism to growth models
14:45-15:00	break
15:00-16:30	prof. Marek Naczyk\| Comparative political economy: A variety of theoretical approaches
Day 5. 12.07.2023 \| room: 152
9:00-10:30	prof. Marek Naczyk\| Workshop on methods: Process tracing: A qualitative method for studying causal mechanisms
10:30-10:45	break
10:45-12:15	prof. Marek Naczyk\| Workshop on methods: Data collection for process tracing
12:15-12:45	Closing Session
12:45-13:15	Lunch

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

Annika Bergman Rosamond is a Senior Lecturer in International Relations and Gender at the University of Edinburgh.
She is an international relations and gender scholar whose work stretches across a range of fields including feminist foreign policy, feminist security studies, gender cosmopolitanism and care ethics, feminist peace and digital diplomacy, critical military studies, the study of crisis, populism and gendered nationalism, human rights and environmental justice as well as intersectionality. She also works on celebrity humanitarianism, pop culture and world politics, with focus on the ethical, gendered, neoliberal and colonial underpinnings of celebrity politics and activism.
Daniel Béland, Ph.D., McGill University

Daniel Béland is Director of the McGill Institute for the Study of Canada and James McGill Professor, Department of Political Science, McGill University. A student of politics and public policy, Professor Béland has published more than 20 books and 180 articles in peer-reviewed journals and his work has been cited more than 13,000 times, according to Google Scholar.

To support his research, he has been awarded six SSHRC (Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada) standard research/Insight grants and two Canada Research Chairs (a Tier 2 followed by a Tier 1).

In addition to his academic work, Professor Béland has participated in numerous training sessions for civil servants, provided policy advice to federal and provincial officials, and testified in front of the Saskatchewan Federal Electoral Boundaries Commission, Standing Senate Committee on National Finance, and the Standing Committee on Finance of the House of Commons (Canada). Moreover, he is very frequently asked to comment on key policy and political issues by Canadian and international media outlets.
Marek Naczyk, Ph.D., University of Oxford

Marek Naczyk, Ph.D., is an Associate Professor of Comparative Social Policy at the Department of Social Policy and Intervention, University of Oxford, UK. In 2023-24, he has been a Visiting Scholar at the Minda de Gunzburg Center for European Studies, Harvard University. His research focuses on the influence of interest groups and state actors in the politics of social policy and industrial policy in OECD countries, including in post-communist countries.
Elias Tsakas, Ph.D., Maastricht University

Elias Tsakas is an Associate Professor in the Department of Microeconomics and Public Economics (MPE) and PhD Director within the Graduate School of Business and Economics (GSBE) at Maastricht University.

He serves as an Associate Editor in the Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, and Coordinating Editor in Theory and Decision.

His research expertise lies on Game Theory, Decision Theory and Behavioral Economics. My current research focuses on the relationship among beliefs, information and behavior (e.g., how to measure beliefs, how beliefs are affected by information, how beliefs affect behavior, etc). He is also working on interesting applications within political science and sports. In the past, Professor has also worked on cooperation, risk preferences, epistemic game theory and evolutionary game theory, and occasionally on interesting mathematical problems within other fields.

APPLICATION DEADLINE

The application deadline is June 10, 2024.
In case of questions, please, contact the Office of the SGH Doctoral School at: bsd@sgh.waw.pl

>THE APPLICATION FORM<

The event is organized as part of the project “Strengthening the SGH Doctoral School’s Position Within the Framework of the International Area of Doctoral Education” funded by the Polish National Agency for Academic Exchange (NAWA) within the program STER - Internationalization of Doctoral Schools”. 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. Participants must, however, cover their travel and accommodation expenses.

Type of event:

Summer School

Category:

student

Location:

SGH Warsaw School of Economics

Organiser:

SGH Doctoral School

Members of the Organizing Committee

Head:

Prof. dr hab. Marzanna K. Witek-Hajduk

Deputy Dean of the SGH Doctoral School