Training and Research

PhD Programme Courses/classes

How to use the APA publication manual

Credits: 2

Language: Italian

Teacher:  Daniela Raccanello

Welcome to the desert of the real

Credits: 0.5

Language: Italiano.

From research design to impact in a Marie-Curie Post-doc project

Credits: 0.8

Language: Italiano e inglese

Teacher:  Ivan Traina

The empirical phenomenological method (EPM): theoretical foundation and empirical application in educational and healthcare fields

Credits: 6

Language: English

Teacher:  Marco Ubbiali, Federica Valbusa, Rosi Bombieri

How to write an abstract

Credits: 3

Language: English

Teacher:  Daniela Raccanello

Research validity and methodological rigor: reviewers perspective

Credits: 0.5

Language: Italian

Teacher:  Riccardo Sartori

Welcome to the desert of the real

Credits: 2

Language: italiano

Teacher:  Gianluca Solla, Laura Anna Macor, Alessandro Stavru

The challenge of measuring psychological constructs

Credits: 0.5

Language: English

Teacher:  Riccardo Sartori

How to write a project proposal

Credits: 2

Language: italiano

Teacher:  Marinella Majorano, Marcella Milana

How to write a research article

Credits: 4

Language: Italiano/inglese

Teacher:  Marcella Milana, Elena Florit

The development of research-based curricula addressed to people with intellectual disabilities

Credits: 0.8

Language: Italiano e inglese

Teacher:  Ivan Traina

Action research: theoretical framework and practical examples

Credits: 1

Language: English

Teacher:  Anna Maria Meneghini

Inhabiting the desert: desert methodologies

Credits: 0.5

Language: English

Teacher:  Massimiliano Badino

Surviving in the desert. How to find fundings to continue research after PhD: European calls

Credits: 1

Language: English

Teacher:  Massimo Prearo

Research design (between-subjects, within subjects and mixed designs)

Credits: 1

Language: English

Teacher:  Elena Trifiletti

Research design (two/three-waves and longitudinal designs)

Credits: 1

Language: English

Teacher:  Elena Florit

Seeing the Literature through a PRISMA: the gold-standard for systematic and scoping reviews

Credits: 1

Language: English

Teacher:  Michele Scandola

Using a PRISMA: practical exercises for a systematic review: from the pre-registration to the stars

Credits: 1

Language: English

Teacher:  Michele Scandola

The systematic review of qualitative studies

Credits: 2

Language: English

Teacher:  Paola Dusi

Metodi di Scaling Unidimensionale

Credits: 1

Language: Italiano - Inglese

Teacher:  Roberto Burro

Mastering Research Methods in Psychology: A Synthesis Workshop

Credits: 0.5

Language: English

Teacher:  Margherita Pasini

DOING INTERVIEWS IN QUALITATIVE RESEARCH

Credits: 2

Language: English

Teacher:  Chiara Sita'

Designing and conducting focus groups

Credits: 1.5

Language: English

Teacher:  Alessia Maria Aurora Bevilacqua

Design, Construction and Dissemination of an Online Empirical Study through the QUALTRICS platform

Credits: 1

Language: English

Teacher:  Marco Salvati

Qualitative data analysis

Credits: 1

Language: Italiano e inglese

Teacher:  Roberta Silva

OPEN SCIENCE: THE MIGHTY STICK AGAINST "BAD" SCIENCE

Credits: 2

Language: English

Teacher:  Michele Scandola

Mastering your path: Ph.D.’s career

Credits: 1

Language: English

Teacher:  Andrea Ceschi

AI and research ethics

Credits: 1

Language: English

Teacher:  Elena Trifiletti, Massimiliano Badino

Theoretical perspectives in sociology: The problem of common sense

Credits: 1.5

Language: English

Teacher:  Luca Mori

Mixed method research in education: design, data analysis

Credits: 1

Language: English

Teacher:  Agostino Portera

Quantitative and qualitative research methods for research and evaluation in the human sciences

Credits: 1

Language: English

Teacher:  Agostino Portera

Introduzione alla Social Network Analysis

Credits: 2

Language: Italian

Teacher:  Luigi Tronca

Ethnographic fieldwork and participant observation: an introduction

Credits: 2

Language: English

Teacher:  Stefania Pontrandolfo

La ricerca d'archivio nelle scienze umane

Credits: 1

Language: English

Teacher:  Daria Lucia Gabusi

Against genetic determinism: information and computation in the living and the machine

Credits: 1

Language: English or Italian, according to the participants' request

Teacher:  Rocco Gaudenzi

Culture and care of well-being in social policies and social work

Credits: 1.5

Language: English

Teacher:  Sandro Stanzani

Culture e cure del benessere nelle politiche e nel servizio sociale

Credits: 1.5

Language: Italian

Teacher:  Sandro Stanzani

Devising a research project: interdisciplinary perspectives

Credits: 6

Language: Italiano/Inglese

Teacher:  Marcella Milana, Giorgio Erle, Margherita Pasini

Experiencing Bibliometric Analysis: From Concepts to Visualization

Credits: 1

Language: English

Teacher:  Paola Dusi

Getting started on your teaching - TaLC meeting

Credits: 1.5

Language: English

Teacher:  Alessia Maria Aurora Bevilacqua

Inhabiting the desert: writing in the desert

Credits: 0.5

Language: Italiano.

Teacher:  Carlo Chiurco

METEOR: Methodologies for Teamworking in Eco-Outwards Research

Credits: 3

Language: Inglese/English

Teacher:  Marta Milani

Trustworthiness in qualitative research design and dissemination. A case analysis on 'rug methodology'

Credits: 1

Language: English

Teacher:  Chiara Sita'

Why simultaneous bilingual development is not easy

Credits: 0.5

Language: English

Teacher:  Marinella Majorano

Credits

2

Language

English

Class attendance

Free Choice

Location

VERONA

Learning objectives

To know the epistemological and hermeneutic bases of anthropological field research;
Ability to apply the ethnographic method in different cultural contexts.

Prerequisites and basic notions

No special prerequisites required

Program

Introduction to the eclectic methods of participant observation and anthropological fieldwork ; main techniques of ethnographic dates production; main scientific plausibility strategies of ethnography ; epistemology and hermeneutics of ethnographic research.
Methodological reflections on ethnographic research practices from the experiences of applied anthropology. Recent developments and ongoing experiments in ethnographic research methodology.

Didactic methods

Lectures with student participation

Scheduled Lessons

When Classroom Teacher topics
Friday 08 May 2026
09:00 - 13:00
Duration: 4:00 AM
Chiostro S. Maria della Vittoria - S.R. T.15 [T.15 - Terra] Stefania Pontrandolfo Introduction to the eclectic methods of participant observation and anthropological fieldwork ; main techniques of ethnographic dates production; main scientific plausibility strategies of ethnography ; epistemology and hermeneutics of ethnographic research
Friday 15 May 2026
09:00 - 13:00
Duration: 4:00 AM
Chiostro S. Maria della Vittoria - S.R. T.15 [T.15 - Terra] Stefania Pontrandolfo Methodological reflections on ethnographic research practices from the experiences of applied anthropology. Recent developments and ongoing experiments in ethnographic research methodology.

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