Магистратура 2020/2021

Научно-исследовательский семинар "Население и развитие"

Лучший по критерию «Полезность курса для расширения кругозора и разностороннего развития»

Лучший по критерию «Новизна полученных знаний»

Статус: Курс обязательный (Население и развитие / Population and development)

Направление: 38.04.04. Государственное и муниципальное управление

Кто читает: Кафедра демографии

Где читается: Факультет социальных наук

Когда читается: 2-й курс, 1-4 модуль

Формат изучения: без онлайн-курса

Преподаватели: Аникин Василий Александрович, Жданов Дмитрий Александрович, Казенин Константин Игоревич, Козлов Владимир Александрович, Школьников Владимир Михайлович

Прогр. обучения: Население и развитие

Язык: английский

Кредиты: 6

Контактные часы: 72

Course Syllabus

Abstract

Research Seminar (RS) is a "playground" for academic communication between the students and the staff of the Institute of Demography and Department of Social Sciences, visiting scholars and the staff of other departments at HSE. A guided development of research pa-pers within the seminar environment provides a foundation to shape basic academic skills: critical reading and reviewing, academic writing and ethics, mutual learning, widening of sci-entific specialization, team-working, collaborative implementation of research projects. There-fore, the purpose of the RS is to develop research skills and apply these skills to conduct own research and write the thesis.

Learning Objectives

• The objectives of the seminar are: • to provide a smooth transition from learning to conducting own research; • to guide students in choosing appropriate research directions and topics; • to form understanding of professional activity perspectives and possible directions of pro-fessional implementation; • to enlighten related research fields; • to deepen understanding of the academic activity: well-organized process of searching and re-viewing theoretical and methodological literature, justifying the goal, research questions, meth-ods, stating the hypotheses, selection of relevant methodology and evaluation of its con-straints; • To develop academic writing skills and text reviewing; • to advance presentation skills for further reporting within thesis defence procedure, con-ference talks or poster-reports; • to enhance skills of analytical work in small groups, group- discussions; • to practice academic discussion, moderation, constructive criticism of others' opinions and pro-vision of extensive written and verbal feedback to one’s assignments; adequate self-evaluation; • to form skills of elaboration and writing of the term paper and qualification thesis – i.e. the de-sign of the structure, the style of presentation, the ways of presenting statistical infor-mation and research results etc.

Expected Learning Outcomes

• The student knows strategies of an application
• The student knows additional methods useful for demography and development studies
• the student knows how to present data or results in visual manner
• the student knows how to ground a policy recommendation, outline of a policy paper
• The student knows how to use and summarize the empirical results of the paper
• The student can organize the predefence of the paper as a public presentation

Course Contents

• Predefences
  The practical defence of the preliminary version of the presentation and predefence of the thesis
• Advanced data analysis and empirical results
  Additional models for quntitative analysis and methods of qualitative analysis, and interpretation of the results
• Interpretation of results in an academic study
  Discussion chapter, theoretical implications, Conclusion Policy recommendations
• Data and empirical results presentation
  Map-making (QGIS), visualisation (with different packages: Excel, SPSS, Stata)
• Advanced methods and topic in P&D studies
  Non-government organizations, Demographic methods in Stata, Data quality
• Application as an academic genre
  Applications to the academic grants, scholarships, PhD programmes, internships

Assessment Elements

• Abstract
  50% for presentation and 50% for the abstract itself
• Map-making task
• Empirical part essay
• Participation
• Predefense (Oral presentation 10-15 minutes and questions from the jury)
  Не является экзаменом
• Review of a group-mate predefence
• Visualization task
• Map-making task
• Empirical part essay
• Conclusion and discussion task
• Predefense (Oral presentation 10-15 minutes and questions from the jury)
  Не является экзаменом
• Review of a group-mate predefence

Interim Assessment

• Interim assessment (1 module)
  0.5 * Abstract + 0.5 * Map-making task
• Interim assessment (4 module)
  0.1 * Abstract + 0.25 * Empirical part essay + 0.1 * Map-making task + 0.1 * Participation + 0.35 * Predefense (Oral presentation 10-15 minutes and questions from the jury) + 0.1 * Review of a group-mate predefence

Bibliography

Recommended Core Bibliography

• 6, P., & Bellamy, C. (2012). Principles of Methodology : Research Design in Social Science. Los Angeles: SAGE Publications Ltd. Retrieved from http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&site=eds-live&db=edsebk&AN=595703

Recommended Additional Bibliography

• Theobald, T. (2019). Develop Your Presentation Skills : How to Inspire and Inform with Clarity and Confidence (Vol. Fourth edition). London: Kogan Page. Retrieved from http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&site=eds-live&db=edsebk&AN=2175100