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Inclusive Entrepreneurship Research Methods (Seminar)

Dozent/in: Rebecca Namatovu

Inhalt: This course provides students with the opportunity to apply theoretical knowledge and research methods to practical situations addressing grand challenges. The focus is on exploring entrepreneurship related to sustainable development goals, particularly inclusive entrepreneurship. The course covers theoretical foundations that help formulate good research questions and appropriate research designs to investigate these questions. It emphasizes the importance of conducting meaningful research in unconventional entrepreneurial contexts or as initiated by unconventional actors, such as refugees, immigrants, and the disabled. Both quantitative and qualitative methodologies contribute to understanding complex entrepreneurial contexts and processes. Quantitative methods utilize big data and AI as new sources of inspiration, while qualitative methods find innovation from other fields of social science. In general, qualitative approaches enhance knowledge of entrepreneurship and are well-suited to the study of entrepreneurial processes and mechanisms. They reveal the situated nature of entrepreneurial practices, deal with complexity, engage in sensemaking, and develop socially constructed theory. Mixed methods are also seen as a creative way to gain a deeper understanding of a phenomenon. However, methods alone do not guarantee good research. The purpose of the course is to sensitize students by alerting them to the challenges of conducting inclusive entrepreneurship research and guiding them to formulate methodologically and theoretically sound questions. In so doing, the course helps students refrain from promoting misleading narratives about entrepreneurs and entrepreneurship research contributions. The course is divided into three themes: theoretical foundations, designing appropriate research projects, and becoming a responsible researcher. By the end of the course, students should be able to outline and critically reflect on a variety of methodologies and theories relevant to inclusive entrepreneurship, discuss the strengths and weaknesses of empirical results in light of research questions, methodologies, and theories, and plan a social scientific research project addressing a research question in an inclusive entrepreneurship context.

Policy Analysis and Design: An Advanced Introduction for Higher Degree Scholars (Seminar)

Dozent/in: Tobia Fattore

Termin:
Einzeltermin | Mi, 10.12.2025, 16:00 - Mi, 10.12.2025, 19:00 | Online-Veranstaltung | Online via Zoom (https://leuphana.zoom.us/j/97454950665?pwd=z0biVuvGU0kIhrtoLaa2yiEYFfwA7o.1)
Einzeltermin | Fr, 12.12.2025, 10:00 - Fr, 12.12.2025, 17:00 | C 14.027 Seminarraum
Einzeltermin | Sa, 13.12.2025, 10:00 - Sa, 13.12.2025, 17:00 | C 14.202 Seminarraum
Einzeltermin | So, 14.12.2025, 10:00 - So, 14.12.2025, 17:00 | C 14.202 Seminarraum

Inhalt: The aim of this course is to equip students with the methodological tools to undertake critical policy analysis in the following ways: i) Analysis of policy, involving the examination of policy documents and processes as an object of analysis for their research. ii) Analysis for policy, involving the identification of policy options from their research. and iii) Policy design, involving the systematic processes of translating their research into actionable policy tools and instruments. Conventionally, policy analysis involves the evaluation of different public decision-making, or policy, options to address what are considered social problems or to improve decision-making. This course draws upon and questions this definition by starting from a simple distinction between analysis of policy, analysis for policy and policy design, which provides a more systematic and differentiated approach to policy analysis. Drawing upon key literatures in the policy analysis field, students will examine how different approaches to policy analysis, regardless of the field in which one is situated, can be used firstly, as a methodological component for undertaking research; and secondly, as a means through which research findings can be used to inform policy. The course involves five sessions: Session 1 Introduction: Introduces policy analysis and provides an overview of the course. Students will be introduced to different models of the policy process, how policy is both a subject and objective of research and general questions regarding the relationship between research and policy. Session 2 Analysis of Policy: This session explores how policy processes and documents can be used as analytical objects and forms of data within research, from which we can learn about a topic of interest. Various approaches to undertaking analysis of policy will be canvassed, including those drawn from interpretive (Discourse, framing and narrative approaches), post-structural (‘What is the problem represented to be’) and analytical traditions of policy analysis (which evaluate policy in terms of its stated aims and objectives). Session 3 Analysis for policy: This session explores the process of using insights drawn from research to contribute to policy processes, whether through engaging in policy debates, developing new policy ideas or contributing to existing policy frameworks. In this section of the course, various models and of undertaking analysis for policy will be discussed, including those that emphasise the role of research within policy-cycles, and those that engage in more critical-realist perspectives of the role of research for policy. Session 4 Policy Design: This component of the course reflects on how ideas and evidence generated from research can be used to inform the development of specific tools and instruments which constitute policy design. As well as canvassing typologies of policy design this aspect of the course examines the importance of stakeholder coalitions and the politics of implementation as part of the ‘doing’ of policy design. Session 5 Application: This session involves students examining how the analytical approaches introduced in Sessions 2 to 4 can be applied to the participant’s own research. Across all sessions, emphasis will be placed on developing an understanding of frameworks and methods of analysis of and for policy and policy design. Together these will form a suite of concepts and methods participants can apply for their own research. This is the focussed on in this session where participants will be expected to select and apply some of these frameworks and tools to their own research topic. It is intended that in some sessions, ‘Question & Answer’ discussions with policy practitioners will be included, providing an opportunity for participants to discuss how research is utilised by those currently engaged in doing policy work.