THE INAUGURAL GIREP SUMMER SCHOOL
LEIDEN, THE NETHERLANDS, June 28th to June 29th, 2025
The inaugural GIREP SUMMER SCHOOL will be held from June 28th to June 29th, 2025 in Leiden, The Netherlands, just before the GIREP-EPEC 2025 conference. It is organized by the International Research Group on Physics Teaching – GIREP (Groupe International de Recherche sur l’Enseignement de la Physique), the Leiden Institute of Physics, and the Leiden University Graduate School of Teaching.
The GIREP 2025 SUMMER SCHOOL is a PER-specific venue that aims to open opportunities for developing community among researchers. The programme is planned from Saturday lunchtime until Sunday evening.
The summer school will consist of the following types of sessions:
- Five 90-min working-group sessions in each of which a PhD student, in turns, presents their work-in-progress, either in the form of a 45-minute presentation, or in the form of a 15-minute presentation followed by 30 minutes of workshop activities anchored in participant artifacts (e.g., bottom-up analysis of interview transcripts; analysis of respondents’ data with a coding scheme, etc.). The remainder of each 90-minute session will be devoted to discussion with junior and expert researchers focused on presenters’ dilemmas. Working groups will include 5 PhD students in the middle of their studies (after proposal, before final defence) and more senior researchers. Ground rules and norms will serve to ensure a safe place to discuss dilemmas of PER practice.
- A synthesis session in which participants from different groups will meet in roundtables to reflect on their experience
- A plenary workshop focused on educational research practices
- An invited session
The approximate cost per participant is estimated to be about 200-250 Euro. Breakfast, lunch and dinner will be provided.
This is the inaugural Summer School in PER. All PhD student applicants will be guaranteed admission as long as they a) have at least second-year standing in their PhD studies and have passed the PhD proposal stage; b) are no closer than nine months away from submitting PhD dissertation; c) submit the application materials which are described below; and d) meet the application deadline.
Acceptance for non-student attendees is not automatic. Confirmation of acceptance will be emailed in early March.
16 February 2025: Deadline for submission of applications.
The Summer School site is https://indico.cern.ch/event/1491895/
There you will submit an extended abstract. In addition, you will need to upload a signed letter from your PhD supervisor, which you will do at link.
Organizing Committee:
Stamatis Vokos, California Polytechnic State University, USA.
Edit Yerushalmi, Weizmann Institute of Science, Israel.
Paul Logman, Leiden University, The Netherlands.
Eillish McLoughlin, Dublin City University, Ireland
Dagmara Sokolowska, Jagiellonian University, Krakow, Poland
Claudio Fazio, University of Palermo, Palermo, Italy
David Sands, UK
Note: This is the first time that the Summer School is planned to take place. If the number of applicants does not reach a minimum of twenty PhD students, the Summer School will be postponed to the following year. In such a case, applicants will be informed by 14 March 2025.
Please, note that all participants need to be GIREP members. You can register to become a member of GIREP here.