EU Specialisation Course

Meeting 3

Overview

• Q&A on the readings
• Keywords & thinking of a story
• Q&A on the template

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Q&A

Questions

• Disparity between policies as written on paper and their implementation in practice

  • formulation (national) vs implementation (local)

•  Why should we care about (quasi)natural experiments
  • What seems to make a difference (and what not)?
• Are preferences in respect to background of refugees stable?
  • What kind of hypotheses can we think of?
  • types of immigrants match up to preferences about their location?
• What is 'Promising Victimhood'? How does it relate out what we know from other research?
  • Studying practice vs studying discourse (and back to Q1 above

Keywords

• Let's look at the g-drive file and type out some keywords
• Let's try to group them into stories
• Let's think of a problem statement / abstract
• Let's try to sketch out a research plan

Q&A on the template

• Form pairs
• Tell you peer what you the IRC will learn from your work
• Is your work descriptive or causal?
• How long is your draft?
• Can you prove yourself wrong?

Q&A on the template

• Tell me what your pair said about their research
• Let's look again at the sketches of the research plans
• Let's look again into teams and RQs

• Send me the Team list, main RQ and Sub-RQs (or individual RQ) and type of final submission (academic vs policy) by Thursday 12th December
• Be explicit in your template about the overarching RQ and your individual work (at the very top, 1-2 sentences)
• Also update the G-Drive

Thank you and see you on March 6th!