PhD training during the pandemic
for “Outcomes and Causal Inference in International Comparative Assessments” in educational research. In the past four years, OCCAM provides a structured, international, intersectoral, and interdisciplinary [...] ary research and training environment for PhD students. The PhD students were trained by 9 host organizations across Europe and spend several short research stays and a 6-months-long secondment with another [...] the PhD students and their supervisors worked together to make the trainings and collaborations a virtual success. Despite the pandemic-related challenges, more than half of the PhD students have graduated …