9 – 28 April 2024 • Marco Biagi Foundation
Cycle of seminars organised as part of the PhD Course in Labour, Development and Innovation, Unimore – Marco Biagi Foundation
Visiting professor: Dr Tiziana C. Callari
Senior Research Fellow
Loughborough University, Leicestershire, UK
Senior Research Associate in Systems Ergonomics for Collaborative Robotics
April 09, 2024 (Tuesday) 9.30-12:30 – Room 32, Marco Biagi Foundation
SEMINAR 1 – Designing a qualitative research design study
This seminar provides an overview of the strategic understanding and applied skills in planning, conducting, and reporting the process of qualitative research studies. The seminar combines theory and applied exercises to appreciate the influence that epistemology and research design has on choosing a qualitative method. Qualitative methods (such as: Interviews, Observations, Focus Groups, etc.) will be critically reviewed. The seminar also reviews the role of reflexivity in shaping the data collection and analysis processes.
April 10, 2024 (Wednesday) 9.30-12:30 – Room 32, Marco Biagi Foundation
SEMINAR 2 – Case study
The Case Study methods are a well-known approach in management studies. This seminar introduces to the logic of case study thinking, from a plurality of epistemological standpoints ranging from the positivist to the interpretivist. For each paradigmatic assumption, the core features of the method will be presented, with a critical review of the leading scholars’ work and arguments.
April 16, 2024 (Tuesday) 9.30-12:30 – Room 32, Marco Biagi Foundation
SEMINAR 3 – Thematic analysis as a Family of approaches (I)
Thematic Analysis (TA) is a method for identifying, analysing and reporting patterns (themes) within data. Thematic analysis is a well-known method in the social sciences that can be used for examining the perspectives of different research participants, highlighting similarities and differences, and for summarizing key features of a large data set. The different approaches to TA are presented, which encompass the so-called small-q TA and Big-Q TA. In this seminar, the following approaches are explained: Thematic/Template Analysis, Content Analysis, Framework Analysis.
April 17, 2024 (Wednesday) 9.30-12:30 – Room 32, Marco Biagi Foundation
SEMINAR 4 – Thematic analysis as a Family of approaches (II)
Thematic Analysis (TA) is a method for identifying, analysing and reporting patterns (themes) within data. Thematic analysis is a well-known method in the social sciences that can be used for examining the perspectives of different research participants, highlighting similarities and differences, and for summarizing key features of a large data set. The different approaches to TA are presented, which encompass the so-called small-q TA and Big-Q TA. In this seminar, the following approach is presented: Reflexive Thematic Analysis.
April 05, 2024 (Friday) 9.30-12:00 – Teams
ONLINE SEMINAR – Performing a literature review
The focus of this seminar is to present the process of performing a literature review. The suggested steps will be presented, and how to make sense of the document analysis to present a critical and integrative review.
The cycle of seminars will be taught in Italian
Coordinator of the cycle of seminars
Tindara Addabbo, Full Professor of Economic Policy,
University of Modena and Reggio Emilia,
“Marco Biagi” Department of Economics