Supplementary recruitment
Part 2
28-30 September (Wednesday – Friday)
Prof. Valentina Hlebec - Professor at University of Ljubljana, Faculty of Social Sciences. Valentina has an extensive knowledge of social methodology, especially on cognitive laboratory techniques, development and evaluation of measurement quality of survey measurement instruments. Lately she focuses on social welfare and informal/formal social care. Her research experience covers projects focused on reducing old-age social exclusion and active and healthy aging, addressing the needs of informal carers. She was leader of the research programme Quality of Life of Social Groups. In the past, she was a principal investigator in a number of national research projects focusing on social networks of older people, intergenerational solidarity, quality of social home care and community care for older people. She has (co)authored 112 scientific papers, seven monographs, and 30 chapters in the monographs and presented her work at numerous national and international conferences. She is also a member of the expert group EIGE (Working Group on the Gender Equality Index) and of EUROCARERS (European Association working for carers). She is also editor of journal Advances in Methodology and Statistics.
Day 1
Focus groups .(FG) - introductory session (2.00 PM - 5.30 PM).
Day 1 will involve description of the workshop, setting groups and distribution of workshop materials.
Day 2
Focus groups in cognitive laboratory (9.30 AM - 6.30 PM)
The session will discuss Focus groups (FG) in cognitive laboratory, what they are good for and how to approach preparation and organization. It will guide you through the process of focus groups preparation, as well as organization within the groups. It will tackle issues regarding the preparation of recruitment (participants, recruitment materials), FG setting (moderator, co-moderator, guidelines, participants), and discuss the roles and guidelines in groups (preparing the test FG).
Day3
Focus groups – test FG and the analysis (9.30-12.30)
This session will discuss the test FG, and lessons learned (moderating, recruiting, guidelines). It will provide some hints for preparation of the analysis (how to answer research questions, levels of analysis, reporting).
Successful participation in one part of the summer school: 1 ECTS.
Application process:
Application is first open for the PhD students from Jagiellonian University, with SDNS UJ being the priority group. The number of participants is limited. To apply please fill in information in Forms by August 21th. You will be informed about results of recruitment in the second half of August.
Forms: https://forms.office.com/r/qFyqUF7BPc
Plik RODO: w załączniku