Semester 2, 2024-2025
Type of courseResearch Group Meetings
DateMarch 24, 2025
LocationUniversity of Groningen, Grote Kruisstraat 2/1 Heymans Building, Room Hv.0406
1 day
Maximum number of participants20
ECTS0.5 EC will be appointed for participation in the complete course
StaffHanneke Grutterink (UvA), Antje Schmitt (RUG), Claudia C. Kitz (RUG)
The focus of the second track meeting in the academic year 2024/25 is twofold. In the morning, PhD students get the opportunity to present their own research or research ideas and receive and provide feedback on each other’s research presentations and papers. We are open to all sorts of presentations depending on students’ needs (e.g., practicing a conference talk; short presentation on current challenges and struggles in one’s research, a full or partial paper in progress; a research idea etc.).
If you want to seize this opportunity, send a (partial) paper draft OR a title and short abstract (max 250 words) in case of a conference presentation or a study idea presentation before March 16th to Antje Schmitt and Hanneke Grutterink (a.schmitt@rug.nl; h.grutterink@uva.nl). Please let us also know about the expected duration of your presentation. In addition, feel free to send us any ideas or questions that you would like to bring into the interactive discussion and Q&A.
In the afternoon, Claudia C. Kitz (https://www.linkedin.com/in/claudia-kitz-700180165/ ; https://www.rug.nl/staff/c.c.kitz/ ) from the RUG will join us. Among other topics, Claudia’s research focuses on the delivery of negative news in the work context (e.g., announcement of layoffs, denied promotions). She investigates how communicating bad news impacts employees’ reactions and interpersonal relationships at work. Her methodological approaches include (natural) experiments, as well as advanced analytical techniques, such as web scraping and natural language processing (e.g., sentiment analysis and topic modeling). Claudia will introduce some of these methods and statistical approaches. The students are invited to reflect on how they could apply such approaches and methods in their own research.
Preliminary program:
10:30 Welcome with coffee and tea
10:45 Program starts
17:00 – 18:00: Drinks (optional)
The final program will be communicated some weeks before the meeting.
If there are more PhDs interested in participating than available places, distribution will be based on seniority for this course. This means that we look at how long someone has been a KLI member.