ADA Winter School 2025
7 - 25 July
Winter School Week 1 | Winter School Week 2 | Winter School Week 3
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The Doctoral School aims to offer high impact research design and methodology training, as well as options in academic preparedness and career development. The Schools are open to doctoral candidates (current and prospective), their supervisors and researchers.
Format: It is important to note that these courses are presented and planned as full day synchronous sessions at Stellenbosch University. We recommend that you take leave from your daily work and other responsibilities to attend the classes and complete the assignments as required by your presenters. Your attendance will be monitored to ensure that you meet/reach the requirements for subsequent certification. The school will be offered in hybrid mode with some courses in-person and others offered online.
Your role: You will be responsible for pacing yourself through the workshops when busy with the prescribed exercises, synchronous sessions, and/or group work, and will have to be able to keep up. The estimated contact time required per session is presented below. These exclude morning and afternoon tea and lunch breaks. Group work is mandatory. Please remember it is possible to apply for only one course per week/session as the classes take place at the same time. However, it is possible to apply for more than one course in one week provided the dates do not overlap.
Venue: In-person courses will take place at STIAS: Stellenbosch Institute for Advanced Study (Address: Marais Rd, Mostertsdrift, Stellenbosch, 7600). Online courses will take place on Microsoft Teams.
Winter School Week 1: 7 - 11 July 2025
14 - 18 July 2025
5 days
08:30 - 16:30 GMT+2
7 contact hours
per day
| Academic Writing Retreat: Excellence in thesis and dissertation writing (5 days, Hybrid)
- Ms Selene Delport (Writing Lab, Stellenbosch University, SA) |
14 - 18 July 2025
5 days
08:30 - 16:30 GMT+2
7 contact hours
per day | Mixed Methods in Research Design (5 days, Hybrid)This course will teach you how to design and conduct a rigorous mixed methods study that integrates qualitative and quantitative research using state-of-the-art techniques. This course will also teach participants when, how, and why to integrate qualitative and a quantitative research components into a research project. - Prof Tim Guetterman (University of Michigan, USA)
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14 - 16 July 2025
3 days
08:30 - 16:30 GMT+2
7 contact hours
per day
| Qualitative Data Analysis with Atlas.ti. (3 days, Online) This course will teach you how to design and conduct a rigorous mixed methods study that integrates qualitative and quantitative research using state-of-the-art techniques. This course will also teach participants when, how, and why to integrate qualitative and a quantitative research components into a research project. - Dr Lauren Wildschut (Stellenbosch University, SA) |
22 - 25 July 2025
4 days
08:30 - 16:30 GMT+2
7 contact hours
per day
| Academic Writing: Towards getting published (4 days, In-person)
During this workshop, participants will engage with the key conventions, principles, and practices that underpin effective academic writing. The session offers insights into the landscape of academic publishing, helping participants understand how to meaningfully enter and contribute to scholarly conversations. Through guided activities and discussions, attendees will learn how to plan and structure a coherent, logically developed article, while also developing a personalised roadmap to support their journey toward publication. Mode: In-person |
- Prof Susan van Schalkwyk (Stellenbosch University, SA) |
21 - 25 July 2025
5 days
08:30 - 16:30 GMT+2
7 contact hours
per day
| The Good Supervisor: Developing effective supervision practices (face-to-face and remotely) (5 days, Online)
In this hands-on, experience-led, interactive workshop, participants will explore, discuss, and engage with effective supervision practices. These practices address the intellectual, personal, and institutional dimensions of supervision throughout the doctoral journey. The course will be highly interactive, encouraging active participation in both the learning process and collaborative activities. Participants will be expected to share ideas and engage in workshop exercises with others. Pre-reading and reflection on their own practices as researchers and supervisors are essential, as is engaging in reading, questioning, and discussion throughout the course.
Mode: Online | Course fee: R5500 - Prof Gina Wisker (University of Bath, UK) |
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Additional information:
- Last day for applications: 8 June 2025.
- Payment deadlines for courses: 18 June 2025.
- Course specific information is available on the Workshop Information page.
- The fee per week includes the workshop fee for online courses, digital class materials and digital certification. For in-person courses the fee includes course fees, lunch, digital class materials, digital certification and refreshments at social functions hosted by the ADA.
- All workshops are taught in English.
- The school will be hosted in hybrid format with some (not all) courses being offered both online and in-person (hyflex). You will not be able to join virtually in any of the in-person courses unless it is explicitly stated that the course is offered in hyflex format (i.e., online and in-person).
The ADA reserves the right to cancel a course if the minimum attendance figures are not reached. If a delegate has already paid, we will refund them fully, or offer them the opportunity to attend another course of their choice, where possible.
Cancellations:
- The ADA reserves the right to cancel a course.
The last day to cancel your registration and receive a 50% refund is 8 June 2025. Cancellations made after 8 June 2025 will not be refunded unless a replacement participant is found. By registering on the SU Short Course Registration System for the ADA's 2025 Winter School, participants are legally obligated to pay the course fees, regardless of whether payment has been made at the time of cancellation.
