PhD Events

We are happy to invite you to this year’s PhD event titled "How to Grow Confidence in Conducting and Presenting your Research”. This half day workshop will have two speakers. First, Ann De Ron from FishGrowFeet will give a workshop on how to present and pitch your research with confidence. She has eight years of experience coaching researchers in communicating their research in an accessible manner. After that, Amber Davis will give a workshop on productivity and self-care. Amber has a PhD and now coaches others through the mental challenges that come with this line of work. The day will conclude with a reception. The event is open to all doctoral students and postdoctoral students from the University of Antwerp.

Date: Thursday 25 May

Time: 12:30-17:30

Where: ViaVia Reiscafé –Wolstraat 43, 2000 Antwerp

Registration: Link will be posted closer to date.

Programme:

We are happy to invite you to this year’s PhD event titled “Law Careers Beyond Academia”. The central focus of this year’s event will be on facilitating and supporting the transition of young researchers to the non-academic job market. More concretely, the event will take half-day and will be divided in two moments. The first consists in a workshop on the competences needed outside academia: how to deal with a non-academic vacancy, what are our weaknesses and strengths as researchers etc. The second part of the event will be entirely dedicated to networking.  We will have the opportunity to meet stakeholders from the non-academic domain: lawyers, in-house corporate legal counsels, professionals working in government, EU institutions and NGOs etc.. Most of them have a PhD background, and we will have the opportunity to ask questions and hear their experiences. The event is open to all doctoral students and postdoctoral students from the University of Antwerp. You can register 

When: Friday 20 May, from 12:45h

Where: Via Via café, Wolstraat 43, 2000 Antwerp

Building a community in legal research: Practical skills and practice

Over the past nine years, doctoral students from the Government & Law research group have organised conferences for starting doctoral students. This (anniversary) year we want to leave this concept and organise an event in which the focus is not on individual research, but on connecting doctoral students and post-doctoral researchers working in the broad domain of "public law and governance". More specifically, we want to give researchers the opportunity to develop their communication skills, increase their self-knowledge and develop their own network. We do this by organising various workshops, each with a specific theme.

The programme is available here.

Date: 7 May 2021

Venue: Online

Building a community in legal research: Practical skills and practice

Over the past nine years, doctoral students from the Government & Law research group have organised conferences for starting doctoral students. This (anniversary) year we want to leave this concept and organise an event in which the focus is not on individual research, but on connecting doctoral students working in the broad domain of "public law and governance". More specifically, we want to give doctoral students the opportunity to develop their communication skills, increase their self-knowledge and develop their own network. We do this by organising various workshops, each with a specific theme.

The program is available here. 

Date: 30 October 2020

Venue: Klooster van de Grauwzusters, Lange Sint-Annastraat 7, 2000 Antwerp

Identity, Safety, Modernity in Public Law

Date: 24 May 2019

Venue: K202, Kleine Kauwenberg 14, 2000 Antwerpen. 

The programme can be found here.

​Values and principles in multilevel governance: challenges and opportunities

Date: 25 May 2018

More information about the programme.

​Hybrid Forms of Governance: Moving Beyond Traditional Public Law

Date: 17 May 2017

Democratic legitimation without Parliament: fact or fiction?

Under the auspices of the Government & Law Research Group of the University of Antwerp, we proudly present the sixth edition of the yearly doctoral conference. This conference is the result of fruitful cooperation between the University Antwerp, the KU Leuven, Hasselt University and Ghent University and is funded by the Flemish government. This year the theme of the conference is: ‘Democratic legitimation without Parliament: fact or fiction?’

Seven young researchers will present their research in various legal fields. As such, the topics of legitimacy in European asylum law, sports law and energy law are discussed. Furthermore, the conference will focus on legitimacy of judicial law making in general and of local government in specific. This year, an international dimension was added to the conference, thanks to the cooperation with international researchers from the European University Institute of Florence and of the Deusto University of Bilbao. The morning session will therefore take place in English. The afternoon session, which focuses more specifically on the Belgian context, will be held in Dutch. Each speaker has written an article in a special edition of the Journal for Governance studies and Public Law (Tijdschrift voor Bestuurswetenschappen en Publiekrecht) that will be available on the conference.

Date: 20 May 2016

The research group Government & Law, in collaboration with the Ghent University and the University of Hasselt, is hosting the fifth annual PhD seminar.  The seminar is organised with the financial support of the Flemish Government. The overarching theme of the 2015 edition is the impact of legal instruments on the democratic functioning. SevenPhD researchers will present their findings with regard to an issue that is intimately related to their own PhD topic. 

Date: 8 May 2015 

The research group Government & Law, in collaboration with the University of Ghent, the University of Hasselt, the Catholic University of Leuven and the Free University of Brussels, is hosting the fourth annual PhD seminar.  The seminar is organized with the financial support of the Flemish Government. The overarching theme of the 2014 edition is the blurred distinction between public law and private law. Eleven PhD researchers will present their findings in regard to an issue that is intimately related to their own PhD topic. The seminar will take place 

Date 7 May 2014

In 2013 our first seminar took place.