Online Research Seminar 2024

A one-day online research seminar will gather first-year students and academics from all partner universities to provide extensive feedback on students’ MA research proposals on Wednesday, May 29, 2024. The event aims to make the MA research proposal as robust as possible and to make a good start on the thesis production in the 2nd-year.

The online feedback event will be held in groups with two academics and a number of students with 30-minute sessions per student.

Students will submit a pre-recorded video presentation of (min.) 6 to (max.) 8 minutes by May 22 at 10 AM to a shared folder whose link has been sent to them via email.

The pre-recorded video presentation will cover:

• literature to which the thesis contributes;
•  research gap/problem;
• research question;
• research feasibility.

A student might articulate in the pre-recorded video presentation any component of the research they are struggling with, thus indicating they would welcome an in-depth discussion
of that particular aspect or aspects.

If a student does not submit the video presentation by the set deadline, s/he is expected to participate in the feedback group discussing other research projects, but s/he has forfeited
a chance to present their MA thesis research. This measure encourages students to think about their research on time and to ensure academic staff has sufficient time to
organize the composition of the groups, create online links, etc.

Please note that the starting and ending hours of the event are preliminary and will be confirmed in upcoming weeks.