Training and Research
PhD Programme Courses/classes
This page shows the PhD programme's training activities for the academic year 2024/2025 held at the University of Verona. You find the complete course catalogue with all activities held both in Verona and Bolzano at the website of the PhD programme at the Free University of Bolzano:
Inflectional Morphology (Winter School)
Credits: 2.5
Language: English
Teacher: Stefan Rabanus
Linguistics and Large Language Models
Credits: 2.5
Language: English
Teacher: Andrea Padovan, Denis Delfitto, Gaetano Fiorin, Fabio d'Asaro, Andrea Padovan
Investigating linguistic variables using oral data: the AlpiLinK corpus
Credits: 0.5
Language: English
Teacher: Stefan Rabanus
Mapping linguistic variation with the REDE SprachGIS
Credits: 1.5
Language: English
Teacher: Marina Frank (Philipps-Universität Marburg), Stefan Rabanus
Phraseology and CxG
Credits: 1
Language: German (slides in English)
Teacher: Elmar Schafroth, Sibilla Cantarini
(Inter)acting Appropriately in a L2/FL: Theoretical Principles and Practical Applications
Credits: 1
Language: English
Teacher: Daniele Artoni, Victoriya Trubnikova
The abstract gets concrete: do’s, don’ts and some practice to write successful conference abstracts
Credits: 0.8
Language: English
Teacher: Sabrina Bertollo
VinKiamo as a best practice for citizen science: the example of German varieties in the Alps
Credits: 1
Language: English
Teacher: Sabrina Bertollo
VinKiamo as a best practice for citizen science: the example of German varieties in the Alps (2024/2025)
Teacher
Referent
Credits
1
Language
English
Class attendance
Free Choice
Location
VERONA
Learning objectives
On successful completion of this workshop, PhD students will be able to demonstrate to:
- be familiar with the notion of citizen science;
- be aware of the importance of involving the general public in the research;
- be able to design public outreach activities concerning their own research to make it visible and comprehensible to non specialistic audiences.
Prerequisites and basic notions
There are no prerequisites although participants are encouraged to read recommended literature in advance to properly approach the topic.
Program
VinKiamo (https://alpilink.it/vinkiamo/) is a citizen science project connected with AlpiLinK, which involves High Schools to foster the awareness on multi- and plurilingualism, collect linguistic data via crowdsourcing and analyze dialectal data as a starting point to understand the regularities of the languages. In its “classical” form VinKiamo has involved 620 students, 26 schools and 84 teachers in Veneto, Friuli Venezia Giulia, Trentino, South-Tyrol and Aosta Valley, not to mention satellite projects on linguistic autobiography, linguistic landscape and data analysis with 250 students, 11 schools, and 30 teachers. In the theoretical part of the lesson, we will discuss the notion of citizen science, its implementation in VinKiamo and case study crowdsourcing practices in German varieties in the Alps (Cimbrian, Tyrolean and Timavese). In the practical part of the lesson, PhD students will be trained to find possible declinations of their own research projects in a citizen science perspective (if applicable) and make them accessible to non-academic audiences.
Bibliography
Didactic methods
The workshop will take place in the form of a dialogue between the instructor and the participants and will include, especially in the second part, the active participation of the PhD students.
Learning assessment procedures
In class assessment.
Assessment
Extent of the demonstrated skills; clarity and (terminological) accuracy.
Criteria for the composition of the final grade
Active participation in the workshop and ability to translate one's research projects into a citizen science dimension and also to make it comprehensible for a non-academic audience.
