Doctoral Spring School 2020

Host: Univerisity of the Punjab, Lahore, Pakistan

Organizer: Association of Media & Communication Academic Professionals (AMCAP)

Dates: Feb 28 - March 8, 2020

The first AMCAP Doctoral Spring School 2020, hosted at the University of the Punjab in Lahore, Pakistan, was a collaborative effort of the Association of Media & Communication Academic Professionals (AMCAP), University of the Punjab, Lahore, Pakistan and the European Communication Research and Education Association (ECREA). The 10-day event, running from February 28 to March 8, gathered distinguished European and Pakistani academics to provide support to young scholars undertaking Ph.D. projects in Communication and Media Studies. It offered a unique platform for 24 national and international students to refine their scientific research skills within the emerging digital landscape through Ph.D. feedback panels, workshops, lectures, interaction with media practitioners and panel discussions.

Names

Lectures and Workshops

1.

Prof. Dr. Nico Carpentier

Poster Workshop
Writing Abstracts for International Conferences
Participation Theory
Discourse Theory
Arts-based Research

2.

Prof. Dr. Pille Pruulmann Vengerfeldt

Auto-ethnography
Action Research
Audiences in the age of Datafication
Making Good Presentation

3.

Prof. Dr. Bushra H. Rahman

Critical Discourse Analysis

4.

Dr. Altaafullah Khan

Symbolic Interationism
Mead & Blumer: The Use of Story-Telling Research to Tell the Story of Marginalized Groups in Pakistan

5.

Dr. Saadia Ishtiaq Nauman

Logically Linking Literature Review with Methodology

6.

Dr. Hakeem-ur-Rahman

Big Data Analytics using Python

7.

Dr. Saima Ghazal

Linking Hypothesis with Research Design and Analysis

8.

Dr. Syeda Hina Batool

Managing Citations: An Introduction to Mendeley Software

9.

Dr. Firasat Jabeen

Getting Yourself Published

10.

Dr. Ahmad Usman

Philosophical Foundations, Planning, and Designing Qualitative Data Collection and Analysis