Each PhD Student, coming to Doctoral School, should submit an Extended Abstract of two A4 pages research description covering central aspects of his/her PhD work. The key points include:

1. Your situation, i.e., the university doctoral program context of your work.
2. A clear formulation of the research question(s).
3. A very short background/literature review of key works that frames your research.
4. An identification of the significant problems in the field of the research.
5. Research objectives/goals.
6. A sketch of an applied research methodology (methods of data collection and analysis).
7. The results to date and their validity.
8. Current and expected contributions.

Please download a template to prepare your Extended Abstract.

The prepared summary will be made available for other participants of the Doctoral School to allow feedback and questions on the research. Since the goals of the DC include building the community, participants will be expected to read all of the Extended Abstracts of your colleagues prior to the beginning of the consortium with a goal of preparing careful and thoughtful critique.

Applicants should send the research proposal by email to Tatjana Jevsikova (tatjana.jevsikova@mii.vu.lt) by November 7th, 2014. When submitting the applications, please put "VU-DSchool-014-<Last Name>" in the Subject line.