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What is Unique about the Intensive Graduate Activities |
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The Intensive Graduate Activities at Venice International University include PhD Academies, Graduate Seminars, and Summer Schools. They are an opportunity for students and professors of the member universities and research institutions to experiment with interdisciplinary approaches, to collaborate with peers from around the world, to tackle transversal topics, and to undertake scientific challenges in innovative ways.
This issue is dedicated entirely to the Calls for Application for VIU Intensive Graduate Activities in 2025.
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Communicating research to public and policy audiences is becoming a key element of researchers’ work, but can be challenging when researchers lack the required skills and have little experience of engaging with audiences outside the academic arena.
It is essential to make researchers more aware of the importance of public science communication and engagement, especially since these activities are increasingly demanded by research funders and policymakers as a pathway towards societal impact of research. But, to be effective public communicators, researchers need training to equip them with the key competencies and the confidence to communicate strategically using a wide range of tools and channels, and evaluating impact along the way.
The School draws upon the state-of-the-art of science communication literature as well as on relevant best practice in the field, combining lectures, exercises, simulations, discussions, case studies, and site visits. All participants will also have an opportunity to present their own research.
Suitable for: researchers and graduate students from all research disciplines across Natural and Social Sciences, Engineering and Humanities.
Application Deadline: January 15, 2025
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Rural communities are particularly vulnerable to the effects of climate change, having long relied on farming, fishing, and the natural environment for their livelihoods. Strategies to enhance climate resilience and to support rural flourishing will need to be multi-pronged, including institutional support and investments in in-situ adaptation, ‘migration as adaptation’, and more sustainable agricultural practices and food systems. Transitioning to sustainable agri-food systems is critical to averting food insecurity and climate-driven social and ecological disasters, yet this transition requires more than technical solutions. It calls for a new vision of rural transformation and rural thriving.
This PhD Academy invites participants to learn from leading thinkers working in the fields of rural development, migration studies, climate adaptation, and sustainable food systems.
Suitable for: PhD students, post-docs, and early career researchers working in the interdisciplinary fields of rural development, climate adaptation, sustainable food systems, and/or migration studies. This includes (but is not limited to) researchers from the natural and social sciences (e.g., geography, sociology, economics, anthropology, environmental sciences, agricultural sciences, health, regional planning among others).
Application Deadline: January 31, 2025
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Phenomenology has gained significant traction in recent decades, particularly due to a scientific rehabilitation of the first-person perspective and the realization of the cultural and bodily conditionality of experience. Critical Phenomenology embosses the contemporary relevance of phenomenology, concentrating particularly on the interdisciplinary nature of critical discourse, encompassing philosophy, and social, political, and psychological sciences. It is an “ameliorative phenomenology” (Weiss, Murphy, and Salamon 2019), that expands the conceptual framework and theoretical analyses of the tradition with the aim of denaturalizing the taken-for-granted assumptions and presuppositions embedded in the natural attitude. By integrating and revising concepts from classical and existentialist phenomenological traditions, it seeks to develop a more inclusive and intersectional phenomenological analysis.
The "Critical Phenomenology" Graduate Seminar is dedicated to an emerging branch of philosophy that engages with crucial global debates, focusing on pressing topics like health, gender, and discrimination, making it engaging to a community that extends beyond the ranks of philosophers.
Suitable for: advanced Master, PhD students and junior researchers in Humanities (Philosophy, Medical Humanities, Gender Studies, Critical Theory), Political Sciences, Social Sciences, and Health Sciences.
Application Deadline: February 2, 2025
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During this fourth edition, the course will focus on the myriad of ethical issues presented by end-of-life care. These dilemmas often involve deeply personal and culturally sensitive decisions, reflecting the profound significance of death and dying in human life. The purpose of the summer school is to explore several key ethical issues associated with end-of-life care, including social inequalities at the end of life, the role of ethics consultation, the patient’s right to make decisions about their own body and treatment, assisted dying and euthanasia, and ethics of palliative care.
The Summer School allows students, researchers and professionals from various fields to hone important skills that are located in an interdisciplinary terrain. Professional ethics and deontology are in fact transversal sectors, useful and necessary in the most diverse professional contexts. Physicians, jurists, philosophers, economists, sociologists and political scientists will have the opportunity to test different perspectives of thought and different theoretical systems in the light of extremely important and current case studies. Healthcare professionals will be able to reflect on the various implications that their decisions entail and which often go beyond the strictly sanitary sphere.
Suitable for: Professionals in the health care sector, PhD students, post-doc scholars, graduates and undergraduates in medicine, philosophy, political sciences, sociology, social work, economics, statistics sciences.
Application Deadline: January 31, 2025
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Now in its ninth edition, the summer school aims to foster ideas that promote a more sustainable future by bringing together young scholars from around the world to discuss their perspectives on the Grand Transition of our society from the microlevel of individual decision-making to the organizational and the societal level.
This year the summer school will be jointly organized with the Horizon Europe-UKRI “Rebalance” project on the relationship between capitalism and democracy (GA 101061342).
The school will give young scholars the opportunity to discuss with eminent scholars in management theory and to test their ideas and present their work. Participants will become familiar with recent research from a broad set of disciplines.
They will work on their ability to engage in the transdisciplinary discourse that is required in order to develop innovative answers to grand sustainability challenges.
Suitable for: current PhD students, post-doc scholars and young researchers in Management, Strategy, Organization Theory, Finance, Economic Sociology, Political Science, Philosophy, Psychology, and related disciplines from universities worldwide.
Application Deadline: February 20, 2025
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The 2025 edition of this Summer School will take place at Stellenbosch University, South Africa.
The program develops an original comprehensive approach, bringing into focus the need for synergic engagement among policy-makers, planners, and private and public actors in transport, logistics and supply chain management.
The participants will explore the latest innovations in technology, business models, and policy-making. Through rigorous and non-conventional empirical and theoretical approaches we will explore emerging trends, strategic scenarios, IT and modelling tools (including demo labs), methods, case studies, and applied projects, and discuss how these can support business and policy-makers, achieve environmental sustainability, and socio-economic efficiency. Disruptive digital trends will be confronted with the physical impacts on the territory (“bits vs bricks” perspective).
Suitable for: graduates who have completed an undergraduate degree in Planning, Engineering, Geography, Economics, IT, Design, and Political Science.
Application Deadline: March 2, 2025
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This course focuses on the growing interdisciplinary field of Linguistic Landscapes (LL), which traditionally analyses the “language of public road signs, advertising billboards, street names, place names, commercial shop signs, and public signs on government buildings”, usually as they occur in urban spaces.
More recently, LL research has evolved beyond studying only verbal signs into the realm of semiotics, thus extending the analytical scope into the multimodal domain of images, sounds, drawings, movements, visuals, graffiti, tattoos, colours, smells as well as people.
Students will be informed about multiple aspects of modern LL research including an overview of different types of signs, their formal features as well as their functions.
Suitable for: current final year Undergraduates (finalists, BA3), MA and MPhil/PhD Students in Linguistics, Sociology, Classical Studies, Business Communication Studies, History, Cultural Studies, Political Studies, Translation Studies or any other related discipline.
Application Deadline: March 2, 2025
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The performing arts contribute to the environmental humanities, foregrounding their role in understanding and tackling the environmental crisis. In this PhD Academy, this relation will be interrogated from the viewpoint of the city of Venice.
The Academy includes a program of problem-based learning activities consisting of seminars and workshops, concluding in show-and-tell and dissemination activities. As self-documentation will form part of the learning process, students will be encouraged to create archivable resources that will be available to VIU students further afield as well as future VIU students.
The seminars and workshops aim to transfer skills and methods to students from a range of disciplinary backgrounds. The broader field of study, environmental humanities, will underpin all activities which will focus on the impact of environmental crisis and climate change on the city of Venice, looking, specifically, at the role of waste in society and the ways in which theorists and artists have engaged with this concept and related labour practices in Venice and beyond.
The focus is deliberatively placed on the performing arts, though methods and scholarship will draw, characteristically for the performing arts, from a range of disciplines, empowering students to use innovative practices and explore strategies for knowledge production.
Suitable for: PhD students, post-docs, and junior researchers within all disciplines. It may be of particular interest to anyone with an interest in addressing the challenge of climate change and to those students who are considering a career in environmental humanities
Application Deadline: March 10, 2025
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The Summer School on "Global Mental Health and Human Rights: Decolonial Perspectives on Structural Violence and War" aims to strengthen knowledge in order to foster a psychology of liberation. It will provide theoretical insights and practical participatory tools to support the development and implementation of indigenous, self-determined models for understanding mental health in low- and middle-income countries that are experiencing or coming to terms with political turbulence, war, and social upheaval.
Suitable for: PhD students and practitioners working in mental health, international relations, law, gender and race studies, social work, education, psychology, psychiatry, environmental and climate studies, political science, public health, nursing, global health, and mental health. The school is also open to activist individuals and groups, policy and decision-makers, NGOs and CBOs, stakeholders and influencers seeking to strengthen their knowledge and know-how on global mental health, human rights, and allied disciplines.
Application Deadline: March 20, 2025
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