Scholarships 2021 – 2025
In 2020, Maastricht University (UM) and the China Scholarship Council (CSC) signed a five-year Cooperative Agreement. Within this framework, UM annually provides 30 high quality research scholarships to qualified Master students from Chinese universities or research institutions.
28 & 29 January 2021 | VU University Amsterdam
This Winter School will feature different types of sessions: 1) sessions for presenting your work to peers 2) lectures by RMeS staff members and 3) a workshop on Academic Career outside Academia.
THIS WORKSHOP IS POSTPONED. Expected new date: Fall 2020 | Erasmus University Rotterdam
March – April 2021 | Online
Urban culture is increasingly shaped by various media technologies. Screens, mobile media, sensing technologies, wireless networks, interactive installations and other urban interfaces become more and more enmeshed with the built environment. These technological systems and algorithmic platforms direct and mediate our behavior, data, and experiences in the city.
30 April, 7, 21, 28 May & 4 June 2021 | Utrecht University
In this course, we will approach this cluster of terms referring to mediatized misleading content from different angles, both historically and conceptually, as a methodological y engage with and maybe a field of practical, activist, political intervention. Each session will be dedicated to one or more aspects of the topic and introduced by scholars working on these issues. Students will be invited to develop a case into a research paper.
29 October 2020 | Erasmus University Rotterdam
On Thursday 29 October 2020 at 15:30hr, Roel Lutkenhaus will defend his PhD dissertation.
In 1992, a scene from the TV show Medisch Centrum West—a popular Dutch medical drama— sparked conversations in Dutch living rooms about organ donation. On screen, a doctor had just informed a couple about their son, who had been admitted to the ICU after a car accident. The parents are torn between emotions as the doctor brings up the inevitable: “I am sorry. I know you don’t want to hear this, but Bart’s heart could save the life of another child.”
Every Tuesday morning from 9-12 | Zoom
Esther Hammelburg and Aris Emmanouloudis started weekly Shut Up & Write sessions, and invite other PhD candidates to join. Every Tuesday morning from 9-12 we shut up and write together in a (UvA-secured) Zoom session. This means 3 hours of putting away all distractions and focusing on PhD work.
Friday 25 September 10.00-12.00 | via Zoom
Next to (self-)discipline, doing research requires creativity and imagination. In times of COVID-19, where researchers are bound to their own laptop, books, and headsets, creativity does not seem to be sparked easily in an environment that does not seem to change much. Although a lot of ideas can come from our own coffee mugs, one might miss the imagination that was sparked by taking walks over the campus, meeting and talking to colleagues in front of a (cheap) coffee machine, and the many strolls that you took to the library.
The RMeS PhD Workshop Grant enables advanced PhD-candidates or recently graduated PhDs to organize a workshop around their own research and share their expertise with a new generation of scholars. The workshop is to center on the theme of the recipient’s dissertation or their current research project. The Grant is intended to acknowledge original and innovative contributions to the field of media studies and to highlight the work of talented scholars at the beginning of their careers.
Each spring, the Research School for Media Studies offers a Trending Topics course where faculty members from eight participating universities (UvA, UU, VU, EUR, UL, UM, RUG, RUN) present the latest research in their fields of interest through a series of lectures and workshops. The course invites RMA students to participate in an international, cutting edge research environment, while earning credits towards their degree. It presents a unique opportunity to get to know other students and leading academics from all over The Netherlands, in an open setting of engaging and ambitious exchange that would prove particularly fruitful for students who are aspiring to pursue a future career in academic research or teaching. All eight universities accept the credits earned in this module.
RMeS RMa Course: Trending Topics – Engaging Objects
/in RMeS News /by ChantalEach spring, the Research School for Media Studies offers a Trending Topics course where faculty members from eight participating universities (UvA, UU, VU, EUR, UL, UM, RUG, RUN) present the latest research in their fields of interest through a series of lectures and workshops. The course invites RMA students to participate in an international, cutting edge research environment, while earning credits towards their degree. It presents a unique opportunity to get to know other students and leading academics from all over The Netherlands, in an open setting of engaging and ambitious exchange that would prove particularly fruitful for students who are aspiring to pursue a future career in academic research or teaching. All eight universities accept the credits earned in this module.