PhD Summer Schools

2021 PhD Summer School in Barcelona

Barcelona, ES, 29-30 August 2021

Pre-ESA 2021-conference PhD Summer School in Barcelona - for more information, click here.

2020 PhD Summer School in Ljubljana: "Enhancing Sociology - Strengthening Sociologists"

University of Ljubljana, Slovenia, 21-22 September 2020

The PhD Summer School took place in a hybrid mode, in Ljubljana as well as online. Here is the Programme.
This was the Call for Applications.

2019 PhD Summer School in Manchester

Manchester, UK, 17-19 August 2019

Pre-ESA 2019-conference PhD Summer School at the University of Manchester - for more information, click here.
Report by Monica Massari and Nina Perger in The European Sociologist, issue 44, 2020.

2018 PhD Summer School in Paris: "Reinventing sociology in uncertain times: Sociological research and writing in the 21st century"

Paris, France, 27-29 June 2018

25 selected PhD students and 6 teachers - 5 of them from the ESA Executive Committee - took part in the PhD Summer School in June 2018.
Report by Nilay Çabuk Kaya in The European Sociologist, issue 43, 2019.

2017 PhD Summer School in Athens: "(Un)Making Europe: Capitalism, Solidarities, Subjectivities"

Harokopio University, Athens, Greece, 26-28 August 2017

Report by Airi-Alina Allaste in the European Sociologist, issue 41, 2018

2016 PhD Summer School in Lisbon: "(Un)Making Europe: Capitalism, Solidarities, Subjectivities. Academic Journal Writing: Developing a Publishing Strategy"

New University of Lisbon, Portugal, 19-21 June 2016

2015 PhD Workshop in Prague: "Differences, Inequalities and the Sociological Imagination"

Institute of Sociology of the Academic Sciences of the Czech Republic, Czech Republic, 23-24 August 2015

2014 PhD Summer School in York: "A Sociological Imagination for the 21st Century"

York University, United Kingdom, 27-29 August 2014

2013 PhD Workshop in Turin: "Crisis, Critique, and Change"

University of Turin, Italy, 25-27 August 2013

2012 PhD Summer School in Lisbon: “Doing Research in the Midst of Social Change. Developing a Publishing Strategy”

New University of Lisbon, Portugal, 22-26 July 2012

2011 PhD Workshop in Geneva: "Social Relation in Turbulent Times"

University of Geneva, Switzerland, 5-6 September 2011

2010 PhD Workshop in Turku: "Academic Journal Writing Workshop for PhD Students"

Archipelago Research Institute of University of Turku, Finland, 19-23 July 2010

2009 PhD Summer School in Lisbon: "European Society or European Societies?"

New University of Lisbon, Portugal, 28 August-1 September 2009

2008 PhD Summer School in Crete: "Sociology and the Quality of Life"

University of Crete, Greece, 14-18 July 2008

PhD Workshops and Summer Schools