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Master’s Thesis Information meeting

This meeting provides information on why projects are beneficial for writing a master's thesis, including a more focused and structured approach, guidance from staff expertise, and peer group support. Higher success rate guaranteed.

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Master’s Thesis Information meeting

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  1. Master’s Thesis Information meeting

  2. Why Projects? • More focused • More structured • Guided by staff’s expertise • Peer group and help of fellow students  Higher success rate

  3. What does itmean? • Peer groupmeetings • towards research proposal • kick-off meeting with project groupin December • general research proposal meetings • about 3-5 meetings with project group • Bilateral meetings • towardsdefinitive thesis • arrangewithyour supervisor

  4. Writing a master’s thesis - structure

  5. ProvisionalOverview Research ProposalPhase

  6. ProjectsAdvanced Urban Geography • AUG 1 (Lia Karsten): • Residential responses to a crowded city (5) • Intern possibility – Dutch only • AUG 2 (Fenne Pinkster): • Open urban geography (5): • proposal deadline: 1 December • AUG 3 (Fenne Pinkster): • New geographies of urban tourism (max 5) • Intern possibility • AUG 4 (Dorien Manting): • Mobility and residential preferences of young adults (max 3)

  7. Projects Advanced EnvironmentalGeography • AEnvG 1 (Erik Chu): Cities and Climate Change (max 3) • AEnvG 2 (Erik Chu): Environmental Justice (max 3) • AEnvG 3 (Joeri Scholtens): Fisheries and Maritime spaces (max 5) • AEnvG 4 (Joyeeta Gupta): Sustainable Development Goals (max 2) • AEnvG 5 (Michaela Hordijk): Urban sustainability transitions: waste, water, energy (max 4) Possibilitytobeinvolved in policy related research forBuiksloterham (For Dutch speakers) • AEnvG 6 (to be announced): Natural Resource Management: Justice Perspective (max 4)

  8. Projects Advanced EconomicGeography • AEG 1 (Dennis Arnold) (max 4) Corridor geopolitical economies • AEG 2 (Dennis Arnold) (max 4) Open Projects in Continental Southeast Asia • AEG 3 (Robert Kloosterman) (max 5) Amsterdam Canal District • AEG 4 (Robert Kloosterman) (max 5) Craft Work in Creative Industries • AEG 5 (Robert Kloosterman) (max 5) Resilience of Amsterdam

  9. Projects Advanced PoliticalGeography • APG 1 (Virginie Mamadouh, Inge van der Welle): Political Geographies ofmobility and diversity (max 5) • APG 2 (Patrick Weir): Geopolitics of Popular Culture (max 5)

  10. ThematicProjects • TP 1 (Aslan Zorlu): Quantitative approaches, cross sectional designs (3) • TP 2 (Marco Bontje): Shenzhen; From factory of the world to world city (max 8) • TP 3 (Yves van Leynseele): Nairobi food networks and sustainable development: urban political ecology approach (max 4)

  11. How toinformyourself? • Start • readavailable information • Thesis Topic Guide (online) • Discusswith thesis coordinator • Follow up • General questionsabout the projects: • contact coordinator (i.c.vanderwelle@uva.nl) • Project specificquestions: • e-mail contact person of the project • Information meeting forShenzhen & Nairobi: • Nairobi: 11 November 13-14h JKB25 • Shenzhen: 11 November 14-15 JKB25

  12. Registration • Ultimately Sunday 20 November 2016, midnight https://uvasocialsciences.eu.qualtrics.com/SE/?SID=SV_6l48WKGFobbyEBL • First and Second Choice • What if project is full? • Track students have priority over other students for track specific projects. Requests to participate in another track than your own: e-mail motivation to studieadviseur-sgpl@uva.nl / studyadvisor-hg@uva.nl

  13. Fieldwork • April – May data-gatheringand analysis • PossiblyMarch in agreement with supervisor IndividualForeign fieldwork: • Ownresponsibilityand at yourown risk • no funding • Not in countrieswith a negativetraveladvice (negatief reisadvies)

  14. Overview Deadlines

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