Now the agenda has moved on to looking more carefully in
depth at the European benchmark and scientific and technological
competencies are built, mobilised, replicated and integrated.
Based on scientific discussions on papers from Portuguese
research scholars with leading academics as it has been done in
the Netherlands and in Sweden during the 90's, the aims of the
workshop is to stimulate scientific research on science and
higher education policies with a view to exchange best practices
and policies amongst European researchers and to improve the
overall quality of PhD research.
So, this seminar aims
at:
1. Discussing and presenting ways to improve post-graduate
education for both academia and industry;
2. Debating key difficulties which appear during the PhD
preparation and which are mostly related to different types of
organizing research in universities;
3. Addressing the desirable relation between research planning at
organizational level and research done by post-graduates;
3. Sharing and discussing PhD stories/cases analysing them in a
way they may effectively contribute to clarify doubts and to
reduce uncertainties which normally spring up during the pursuing
of the PhD degree.
It seems that some of the most exciting research welds conceptual
thinking with highly contextual empirical work. We are therefore
organising a two day-long workshop to look at work done in
research and higher education policies to deepen understanding
and gain insights into the broader knowledge society agenda. The
meeting will involve young and more mature scholars from several
countries and several leading institutions presenting papers
and/or discussing streams of thinking in a highly interactive
manner. There will be plenty of time for interactions as we
allocate 45 minutes to discuss each formal paper. Papers will be
made available in advance so that formal presentations are kept
to a minimum and to stimulate lengthy debates.
Call
for papers
The organization encourages researchers to interpret the
conference themes in original ways. Presentation/paper proposals
are called from all fields of scholarly investigation and diverse
forms of creative expression. All work will be
presented in English, and should strike a balance between area of
specialization and accessibility to a general intellectual
audience.
Proposals should be approximately 300 words in length, and
include the presenter's field of specialization and
academic/professional affiliation.
Proposals should be submitted electronically to apetseventos@gmail.com
, with the author's
name as file name.
The
deadline for submission is February 15,
2007
.
Preliminary Programme
26 March
9:00 h - Opening session
9:30 - 11:00 - Seminar
11:15 - Coffee Break
11:30 - 13:00 - Parallel Sessions
13:00 - 14:30 - Lunch
14:30 - 16:15 - Parallel Sessions
16:15 - 16:30 - Coffee Break
16:30 - 18:00 Parallel Sessions
27 March
9:30 - Plenary Session
12:00 - Closing Session and Remarks
Timeline/deadlines
15th
February 2007: Deadline for abstracts'
submission
28th
February 2007: Early registration
22th
March 2007: Final registration
deadline
23th
March 2007: Programme finalised (subject to late
changes)
[1] Research centre in Sociology - is a research centre
belonging to the School of Social Sciences/ University of Minho
(UM)
[2] Research Centre in Economic Sociology and the Sociology of
Organisations - is a research centre belonging to the School of
Economics and Management (ISEG) / Technical University of Lisbon
(UTL).