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)

• Ghent Institute for International and European Studies (GIES)

• Center for Sustainable Development (CDO)
  • SEDwise

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

• Conflict Research Group (CRG)
• The Middle East and North Africa Research Group (MENARG)

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
• Other Ugent funding opportunities
• Research and internationalisation opportunities browse in UG PS Sharepoint
• Cooperation with the Global South - funding and opportunities

Faculty Research Events

• Faculty Research Day
• Faculty Research Methods Events
• Faculty Research Poster Presentations

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

• Research tips
• European funding 

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

• Postdoc community 
• Talent management

Research visits

• Incoming visitors
• Outgoing visits - registration research activities

Corona & Research

• Tips and resources for researchers
• Updates research and Corona
  • Document impact of Corona
  • International mobility
• 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