EU Specialisation Course
Meeting 3
Overview
- Q&A on the readings
- Keywords & thinking of a story
- Q&A on the template
Q&A
Questions
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Disparity between policies as written on paper and their implementation in practice
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formulation (national) vs implementation (local)
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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