The Sustainability Transitions Research Network (STRN) and Network of Early Career Researchers in Sustainability Transitions (NEST) jointly invite PhD students and early career researchers to the 2023 STRN/NEST School on Methodologies and Methods for Sustainability Transitions Research. The school will take place at the ZHAW Zurich School of Applied Sciences in Winterthur, Switzerland from Monday, June 5th to Friday, June 9th 2023, starting in the early afternoon of June 5th and ending on June 9th around midday. Participants will take part in a series of lectures, workshops and discussions organised by leading transitions scholars, with ample opportunities to network and exchange knowledge with other participants and the school lecturers present in person. The planned total workload for the school will be approximately 80 hours, including preparation and attendance and participants will receive a participation certificate for the school. The focus of this year’s school will be on urban (sustainable) transition processes, in collaboration with the Smart City Office of the City of Winterthur.
Confirmed speakers for the Methods School, as well as their broad topical foci within the school’s programme , include:
- Floor Alkemade (Eindhoven University of Technology) – Basics of quantitative research in STR
- Saurabh Arora (University of Sussex) – Knowing with communities and movements of the South
- Lars Coenen (Western Norway University of Applied Sciences) – Spatial focus on urban transitions
- Lea Fünfschilling (Lund University) – Basics of qualitative research in STR
- Frank Geels (University of Manchester) – Epistemological and ontological foundations of STR
- Bipashyee Ghosh (University of Sussex) – Urban transitions in cities of the Global South
- Rene Kemp (Maastricht University) – Mixed Methods in STR
- Jonathan Köhler (Fraunhofer ISI) – Quantitative methods and modelling
- Jochen Markard (ZHAW, ETH Zurich) – Characteristics of sustainable transitions
- Bonno Pel (Université libre de Bruxelles) – Transdisciplinary research
- Bernhard Truffer (Eawag/Utrecht University) – Socio-technical configuration analysis
- Timo von Wirth (DRIFT, Frankfurt University of Applied Sciences) – Urban transitions
- Julia Wittmayer (Drift, Erasmus University Rotterdam) – TD research, experimentation, living labs
A complete programme including more detailed information on the speaker’s inputs will be communicated to successful applicants following the end of the review process.
The call for applications is now open – interested participants are invited to send the filled in 2023 STRN NEST Methodology School Application Form via e-mail to methodsschool2023@zhaw.ch (please use STRN/NEST Methods School application as the e-mail subject) by 12:00 CEST on Monday, March 27th 2023.
Successful applicants will be notified no later than April 17th 2023. Participation in the school is free of charge, but participants are expected to arrange their own accommodation and most meals.
In case of any questions regarding the Methods School, please contact Jonathan Köhler (Jonathan.Koehler@isi.fraunhofer.de) or Anton Sentic (sent@zhaw.ch).