Brussels seminar
In June we are organizing a Brussels seminar for 12 DIGIT postdoc and PhD candidate participants. Apply for a place in the registration link below.
Brussels seminar
When: 12 -14 June 2023
Registration: https://nettskjema.no/a/308270
Registration deadline: 15 March
The seminar is open for DIGIT members only. All reasonable travel costs will be reimbursed. The hotel rooms are pre-booked and paid for by DIGIT directly.
Please note that the your place is not confirmed until you hear back from us.
Content
In the seminar you will meet invited speakers from the EU institutions, researchers and Brussel-based NGOs that work with EU's digital strategy. You will learn about the research and policy agendas these actors work with, and how researchers and European stakeholders can work together to increase the impact of the research. You will also learn about the funding opportunities in the Horizon Europe program, especially European Research Council starting grants and Marie Skłodowska-Curie Postdoctoral Fellowships.
View final program here.
Organizer
Rune Halvorsen is a Sociology professor of social policy at OsloMet and the co-director of the Centre for the study of digitalization of public services and citizenship (CEDIC) and DIGIT.
Halvorsen has contributed to theorisation of changes in social citizenship, welfare governance and structure/agency dynamics in mature welfare states. Empirically, his research has focused on labour market inclusion policies, disability policy, poverty, youth transitions, self-organisation and social mobilisation among marginalised population groups, and eInclusion for persons with disabilities. He has coordinated and participated in several cross-national and cross-disciplinary research projects funded by the EU (FP7 and Horizon 2020 collaborative projects, Marie Curie ITN and IF), the Nordic Council and the Research Council of Norway. In 2020-2023 he is the Scientific Coordinator of EUROSHIP - Closing gaps in social citizenship. New tools to foster social resilience in Europe.
Organizer
Marit Haldar is professor of sociology at OsloMet and the director of DIGIT. Throughout her research-career she has been concerned with ideology and cultural analysis of childhood, old age, gender, family and (social) technology. She has also studied marginalized subjects in the welfare state and inequalities in treatment in the health care system from an ideological perspective. Haldar has broad and long experience with most qualitative methods and has developed new methods that are discussed in highly regarded international method literature (see Silverman, D. 2011, "Interpreting qualitative data", 4th ed. London: Sage). Haldar has led courses in qualitative methods and writing courses at least once a year since 2011. She has extensive experience in providing feedback on texts in both the humanities and social sciences.
Please feel free to contact the DIGIT coordinator should you have any questions.