Research Seminar 2: Analysis, Results, Report

Course goals

The aim of the course is to guide second-year MERM students through timely executing the empirical part of their thesis. Students and lecturers will weekly discuss the progress of their thesis, and provide feedback on others.

Content

The weekly meetings are used to support measurement construction, hypotheses testing and writing the empirical parts (data and methods, results) and the discussion and conclusion part of the thesis. An open atmosphere is demanded to discuss problems students face in their research. Students have to present their work; write drafts of sections, review/discuss presentations and drafts from other students, collect comments during meetings, critically review their own work, and chair/organize meetings. With these multiple roles, students learn to reflect on the progress they make in their thesis, to discuss problems they face frankly, to discuss others' work critically but constructively, and to formulate and organize constructive feedback.