Netherlands Institute of Governance

🚀 Exciting news! The Netherlands Institute of Governance is hosting its 4th PhD Research Day on Monday April 14th, 2025, at Universiteit Utrecht. 🤝 This event offers PhD candidates in the field of public administration and governance a valuable platform to present their research, enhance presentation skills, and engage in meaningful networking. ℹ️ Participation is free for NIG members; non-members can join for a €30 fee. The deadline for registration is March 14th, 2025. 🌟 Don't miss this opportunity to connect and collaborate with fellow researchers. For more details and registration, visit: https://lnkd.in/e9yEp4WH

Last week, we had the pleasure of gathering for the 21st NIG Conference at Universiteit Gent, and what an event it was! Two days filled with thought-provoking discussions, inspiring presentations, and valuable exchanges with colleagues from across the field of public administration and governance. A big thank you to everyone who contributed—our speakers, panelists, organizers, and, of course, all the participants who brought their energy, ideas, and research to the table. These moments of connection and academic dialogue are what make our community so special. We’re already looking forward to continuing these conversations and seeing you again next year KU Leuven Instituut voor de Overheid ! 📸 The pictures from the conference taken by Lucas van der Wee | Fotografie are now available on our website: https://lnkd.in/eebX4MsG

Looking back on an amazing conference day yesterday! We ended the day at Brasserie HA' with a delicious dinner, enjoying great conversations with each other. Wishing everyone participating in the final sessions of today a great time at Universiteit Gent! 📸 Lucas van der Wee | Fotografie

🌟 Last night, the G.A. van Poeijeprijs was awarded by Sanneke Kuipers 🟥 on behalf of the Vereniging voor Bestuurskunde. The 2024 winner of the G.A. van Poeljeprijs was Vivian Visser from Erasmus Universiteit Rotterdam for her dissertation "Who is invited? A mixed-method study on governments' and citizens' perspectives on invitational governance". Congratulations Vivian!

🚀And we're off! This morning, the 21st NIG Conference commenced at the beautiful Tweekerken Campus at Universiteit Gent. We are looking forward to the interesting, inspriring and diverse discussions that we will have and the wonderful people we will meet during the following two days. 📸 Lucas van der Wee | Fotografie

Last week, we had the pleasure of organizing the course 'Managing public organizations and employees in a challenging environment: a macro, meso, and micro perspective'. The three days were very inspiring and educational! Many thanks to the course instructors, Carina Schott and Brenda Vermeeren, for organizing and leading this course and for sharing their insightful thoughts. We’d also like to thank all the participants for their active engagement and contributions.

📣 You can register until Friday 17 January for Studying Governance: Questions, Designs, and Methodologies (5EC)! 📆 10-14 February 2025 📍 Utrecht School of Governance 👩🏫 Merlijn van Hulst, Dimiter Toshkov and Barbara Vis ➡ Register here: https://lnkd.in/eXgNTAkH Studying Governance: Questions, Designs, and Methodologies is an important part of the NIG curriculum. It explores general issues of research design in public administration and political science. It engages with some fundamental epistemological and methodological questions from multiple perspectives, as well as with more practical issues related to the formulation of a research question, the choice of research approach, and the development of the elements of the research plan. We will discuss how different methodological assumptions underlying research are manifested in designing research projects and in analyzing and presenting the data collected in the context of this design. In particular, we will cover the construction of research questions; the selection of research goals; the fit between goals, questions and research design; the selection of cases or sites to research and evidence to collect; and strategies for enhancing the trustworthiness (e.g., reliability, validity, credibility) and relevance (generalizability, practical significance, and scientific contribution) of research projects.

We are truly sad to hear about the passing of Fabienne Maron. For many years she has been of great significance for the field of public administration in Europe and also beyond. We wish to offer our sincere condolences to everyone mourning the loss. The IIAS website (https://lnkd.in/e2XEAUMf) displays several really touching memorials for a great person whom we should, and will, remember in our field.

You can register now for Science in Pictures! Ellen van Heijst will be teaching this course at the University Museum Utrecht, a beautiful location. 📣 Science in Pictures (1EC) 📆 March 13, 2025 📍 University Museum Utrecht 👩🏫 Ellen van Heijst ✏️ Register here: https://lnkd.in/dnmpN4sQ Do you want to share your scientific research with people who are not aware of the content? Visualizing the content is a powerful tool to tell your story in a way that people understand and remember it better. In this training you will be taught how to draw simple but also powerful pictures of your research. The instructor will give you tips about how to use color, how to frame and connect and the composition. You will be shown how to use it in a presentation. The instructor will give you some examples. And of course you will make a visualization of your own research. Finally, you present your drawing briefly. And you will draw all day! You can find more information about this course here: https://lnkd.in/duBafb6K

Doing PhD or early career research on European integration? Then consider attending the NIG course ‘Current Themes in EU Governance’ (https://lnkd.in/eqP8CX2r). This will take place 25-28 March 2025 at Utrecht University, The Netherlands.   The course focuses on European integration in times of increasing politicization. It traces the effects of domestic and EU-level politicization and contestation on the institutional setup of decision making, compliance and enforcement- and the way these processes unfold in reality. Also, it covers the construction and functioning of the European Administrative Space, and EU coordination by national executives and parliaments.   The course provides participants with an in-depth understanding of these core themes. It also aims to strengthen students’ research skills and reflection on research choices. Participants will explore the nexus between academic research and practice, and have ample opportunity to discuss their research ideas with peers and renowned experts.   The course is aimed at PhD students working on EU-related research or on research with EU-aspects to it. Please note that this is not an introductory course. Participants without knowledge of European Governance at the BA-level will receive guidance for self-study, to fill knowledge gaps in advance.   The course will be taught by Peter Bursens (Antwerp University), Mendeltje van Keulen (University of Applied Sciences The Hague), Markus Haverland (Erasmus University Rotterdam), Ellen Mastenbroek (Radboud University), Bernard Steunenberg (Leiden University), Oliver Treib (University of Münster).   Registration is open until 25 February 2025. At this time, ten open spots are available.   For more information, see https://lnkd.in/eqP8CX2r.   In case of questions, please send a message to the course coordinator, Ellen Mastenbroek: ellen.mastenbroek@ru.nl.