PhD Course Observational research

Coordinator: Rianne van Dijk & Monika Donker, Utrecht University

Interested ICO PhD’s are invited to join the course Observational Research organised by Child and Adolescent Studies of Utrecht University. This course is intended for researchers who are interested or involved in coding human behavior. The aim of this course is to support researchers with conducting behavioral observations and to provide a broad overview of possible approaches. The meetings (6 meetings of 2 hours each) are intended to address questions that can arise in various phases of observational research, such as: How do you select the right setting to observe the behavior in which you are interested, how do you adopt or design a coding system, how can you train observers and determine inter-rater agreement, and what are the options for analyzing the obtained data? The meetings are intended to provide researchers opportunities to learn from each other. Before the start of the course, researchers are asked to provide topics that they would like to discuss and observation systems that they would like to explore. Researchers will also be asked to present their research or experience with observations, and to provide feedback on the presentations of other researchers. Depending upon the wishes of participating researchers, other researchers may also be invited to give a guest lecture.

When: 15 Febr, 29 Febr, 14 March, 28 March, 11 April, and 25 April 2024. All meetings are from 10-12am on location at the Utrecht Science Park.

ECTS: 2

Please contact M.H.Donker@uu.nl if you are interested!