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INVITATION  

 

YOUNG RESEARCHERS DAY of ESPAnet Nederland-Vlaanderen (www.espanetnederland.org)

 

Wednesday 29 May 2019  - Social Faculty, KU Leuven, Belgium

 

WHO?

 

Young researchers working in The Netherlands or Belgium (PhD’s, post-docs, project workers) with a project in the broad field of social policy and social work.

Applicants can have a background in different disciplines, as economics, sociology, psychology, law, political science, public administration/policy studies, philosophy, social work, social pedagogy, …

 

WHAT?

 

Participants present and discuss their research projects, - ideas, - papers.

 

WHY?

 

ESPAnet NL-VL wants to offer young researchers an occasion to meet. This can serve multiple objectives:

• learning about different perspectives on social problems and related social policies and intervention practices
• establish and further develop professional social capital 
• get inspiration from the confrontation of research ideas and practices
• broaden the perspective on one’s project
• exchange of suggestions for improvement of projects and papers
• add to experience with academic presentation and  discussion
• experience embeddedness in the academic community of social policy and social work researchers

 

INTERESTED?

 

Are you a young researcher who wants to participate? Please send an abstract of your project or paper before 1 April 2019 to Joy Schols ([log in to unmask])

 

COSTS?

We will ask a contribution of 25,- euro to provide for beverages throughout the day and a sandwich lunch  

 

SUPERVISORS are welcome!

Supervisors of young researchers are most welcome to participate. They can join in with their expertise in discussions, but no other special tasks are expected from them. If you want to participate and contribute, please send an e-mail to Joy Schols ([log in to unmask]).

 

ORGANISATION

The ESPAnet NL-VL Young Researchers Day 2019 is organised by the Team Social Policy and Social Work of the Faculty of Social Sciences of KU Leuven (see: www.spsw.be). Contact person is Joy Schols: [log in to unmask]

 

LANGUAGE

Texts can be written in Dutch or English. Presentations and discussions are in English, but can be in Dutch in case there are only Dutch speaking participants in a particular session.

 

Yours sincerely,

 

Prof. Wim van Oorschot

Prof. Wim van Lancker

Joy Schols

(local organisers)