Trento, 31 August – 5 September 2009
The Equalsoc and ECSR joint Summer School will be held in Trento at the Conference Centre Panorama from the 30th of August to the 5th of September 2009. It will be devoted to the analysis of both theoretical and empirical aspects of the educational inequalities and the impact of education on social inequalities.
Admission Procedures
The admission procedures will be the following:
- PhD students will be selected on the basis of an abstract of their papers and CVs.
- The abstract, CVs and applicant’s address must be submitted using the online application form on the EqualSoc website: registration form
- PhD students can present papers about any aspect related to the topic of the School. Papers can focus on any European nation, but comparative studies are also encouraged.
- ll PhD students are invited to apply to the Summer School.
- The deadline to send applications is the 15th of June 2009.
- Admitted PhD students should mail their full papers in a pdf format to s.carrossa@email.unitn.it . The full paper must be received by the 31st of July 2009.
Costs
Equalsoc and ECSR will fund, following their own rules, the Ph.D. students coming from the respective institutions. All admitted PhD students will be granted of stay expenses by EqualSoc and ECSR funds. Those coming from an EqualSoc institution will also be refunded of their travel expenses, provided that they do not exceed 350 €. Those coming from a non-EqualSoc institution should pay for their own travel expenses.
For more information and an application form visit the following link:
registration form
Schedule
The Summer school will be arranged around a set of substantive lectures and a set of methodological lectures. They are as follows:
Substantive lectures:
- 31st August 2009 – The effects of social origins and other ascriptive characteristics on educational attainment: R. Erikson, Stockholm University, Stockholm, SE
- 1st September 2009 – Mechanisms underlying class and occupational returns to education: W. Müller, MZES, University of Mannheim, Mannheim, DE
- 2nd September 2009 – Market versus meritocracy: social class and education in modern societies: J. Goldthorpe, Nuffield College, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK
- 3rd September 2009 – The effects of institutional arrangements on returns to education: H. van de Werfhorst, AIAS, University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam, NL
Methodological lectures:
- 4th September 2009 – Ordinal logistic regression models for the study of educational inequalities: R. Luijkx, Tilburg University, Tilburg, NL
- 5th September 2009 – Techniques for educational policy evaluation: E. Battistin, University of Padua, Padua, IT
Equalsoc is responsible for the substantive lectures, while ECSR will organise the methodological lectures.
TSM (Trentino School of Management) will grant the right to free use of the conference room at the Conference Centre Panorama.
For any further information on the Summer School organisation, please contact Sabrina Carrossa at the following e-mail address:
s.carrossa@email.unitn.it