Research
Research Groups
Department of Communication Sciences
- Center for Journalism Studies (CJS)
- Media & ICT (MICT)
- Center for Cinema and Media Studies (CIMS)
- Center for Persuasive Communications (CEPEC)
Department of Political Sciences
- Center for Local Politics (CLP)
- Ghent Association for the Study of Parties and Representation (GASPAR)
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Ghent Institute for International and European Studies (GIES)
- Center for Sustainable Development (CDO)
Department of Sociology
- Center for Social Theory (CST)
- Cultural Diversity: Opportunities & Socialisation (CuDOS)
- Health and Demographic Research (HederA)
- Centre for Higher Education Governance Ghent (CHEGG)
- Participation, Opportunities, Structure (POS+)
Department of Conflict and Development Studies
Interdisciplinary research consortia aimed at realising societal impact
- Ghent Centre for Global Studies (GCGS)
- Centre of the Social Study of Migration and Refugees (CESSMIR)
- Crime, Criminology and Criminal Policy
- PSYNC: working together for mental health
- Human Rights Research Network
- GRAY - Ghent University Research for Aging Young
- DELTA: digital innovation for man and society
- UGent@Work
Doctoral research
- Information for PhD-students
- Doctoral dissertations at the faculty PSS
- Current doctoral research and methods - via sharepoint
Faculty regulations and guidelines on doctoral research
- Doctoral regulations of the faculty (EN translation of regulations, approved in the faculty Board held on November 2021)
- Faculty guidelines for PhD-students
- Faculty research fund for researchers of the faculty
- Registration of research activities and application for faculty research funding
Ethics, integrity, data management and quality of research
- Framework for Good Research Practice
- Research data management (RDM) plan - information ugent
- possible data repositories: SODHA (federal Belgian data archive for social sciences and the humanities)
- Data stewards - support for researchers
- Information UGent on ethics, integrity and quality of research
- Faculty contact for scientific integrity: Faculty ombudsperson
- Ethical issues
- Research ethics
- Ethical protocol in research
also see research integrity UGent - Ethical Committee and FAQ
- Ethical review form with data management plan
Funding opportunities and application research activities (faculty fund)
- Information on application for faculty research funding and guidelines for reimbursement
- Regulations faculty research fund
- Registration research activities (sharepoint)
- UGrant administrative, financial, legal and management support for proposals and projects of UGent
- UGent liaison for faculty PS
- EU-cel and Horizon 2020 - Contact the EU Account Manager for Social Sciences & Humanities
- Industrial Research Fund - IOF Liaison Alfa faculties Zoë Imhof
- UGent liaison for faculty PS
- Other Ugent funding opportunities
- Research and internationalisation opportunities browse in UG PS Sharepoint
- Cooperation with the Global South - funding and opportunities
Faculty Research Events
Publications
- Academic bibliography: Upload publications
- Web of science
- Faculty publication etiquette
- Information on publishing
- VABB registration for academic publications in Flanders
- UGent tips on publishing
Research methods and research disciplines in the faculty
- Faculty Research Methods Events
- Overview methods and research available in sharepoint
- Qualitative research network
- GISMO - registration of research disciplines and methods
- ORCID - Ghent University is an ORCID member and stimulates its researchers to create an ORCID-ID and to link it to their Biblio profile and GISMO.
- Training and consultancy in methodology and statistical analysis by center for statistics (FIRE) and FLAMES (Flanders Training Network for Methodology and Statistics)
Science with and for society
- Societal value creation (valorisation)
UGent links on research
Support for researchers
- UGrant - Funding academy for Ghent University researchers in grant applications
- Contact EU Account Manager for Social Sciences & Humanities
- Industrial Research Fund - IOF Liaison Alfa faculties Zoë Imhof
- Support from faculty for research funding
- Training and consultancy in methodology and statistical analysis by center for statistics
- Research methods network
- Qualitative research network
- Well-being
- Your role as a supervisor
- Information for staff
Postdoc community UGent
Research visits
- Incoming visitors
- Outgoing visits - registration research activities
Corona & Research
- Tips and resources for researchers
- Updates research and Corona
- UGent webpage for researchers during Corona times - well-being and support
- cancelations of scientific activities funded by faculty research funds - please contact onderzoek.ps@ugent.be in order to change Sharepoint registration. If the activity is postponed please add a new application in sharepoint.
- PhD public defenses - new guidelines from doctoral schools
- for online defenses since 27/3/2020 - see UFORA FPS Doctoral defenses
- From 9 June 2021, the general public is allowed to attend on-campus public defenses, provided that all attendees adhere strictly to the safety guidelines
- instructions for Supervisors of FPS on doctoral examinations
Contact
- Faculty committee for scientific research
- onderzoek.ps@ugent.be