PhD Midwinter Seminar @ University College Ghent
In March 2011 GaPS hosted the yearly session of the PhD-Mid-Winter Seminar at the University College Ghent. This PhD seminar is a cooperation between the Police Academy of the Netherlands, the Department of Governance Studies of the VU University, the Defence Academy of the Netherlands, and the Research Group ‘Governing & Policing Security’ (GaPS) of the Department of Public Administration of University College Ghent. Under the supervision of Prof. dr. Monica den Boer and Prof. dr. Marleen Easton, PhD students of the respective institutions were invited to give a presentation about their research and explain the current stage the PhD project was in. Fien Gilleir, Arne Dormaels and Lieselot Bisschop were the participating PhD students for University College Ghent. Based on the papers and presentations of the PhD students, professors and doctors from different disciplines raised challenging questions and provided interesting feedback. Also the exchange of research experience was encouraged and discussions about content-wise, methodological as well as ethical difficulties were stimulated. This resulted in an overall very instructive international meeting, which has hopefully come to stay.
