GIREP 2025 Summer School, Leiden, The Netherlands

Europe/Amsterdam
Leiden University, Gorlaeus building

Leiden University, Gorlaeus building

Einsteinweg 55 2333 CC Leiden https://www.universiteitleiden.nl/en/locations/gorlaeus-building#tab-1
Description

GIREP Summer School, Leiden, The Netherlands

The inaugural GIREP Summer School will be held in Leiden, The Netherlands just before the GIREP-EPEC 2025 Conference. It is organized by the International Research Group on Physics Teaching – GIREP [Groupe International de Recherche sur l’Enseignement de la Physique] and two institutes at Leiden University: the Leiden Institute of Physics (LION) and the Leiden University Graduate School of Teaching (ICLON).

The GIREP 2025 SUMMER SCHOOL is a PER-specific venue that aims to open opportunities for developing community among researchers. The programme is planned from Saturday lunchtime until Sunday evening.

The summer school will consist of the following types of sessions:

  • Five 90-min working-group sessions in each of which a PhD student, in turns, presents their work-in-progress, either in the form of a 45-minute presentation, or in the form of a 15-minute presentation followed by 30 minutes of workshop activities anchored in participant artifacts (e.g., bottom-up analysis of interview transcripts; analysis of respondents’ data with a coding scheme, etc.). The remainder of each 90-minute session will be devoted to discussion with junior and expert researchers focused on presenters’ dilemmas. Working groups will include 5 PhD students in the middle of their studies (after proposal, before final defence) and more senior researchers. Ground rules and norms will serve to ensure a safe place to discuss dilemmas of PER practice. 
  • A synthesis session in which participants from different groups will meet in roundtables to reflect on their experience
  • A plenary workshop focused on educational research practices
  • An invited session

The cost per participant will be 250 Euro. Lunch and dinner will be provided. There will be no refund after two days before the start of the summer school.

This is the inaugural Summer School in PER. All PhD student applicants will be guaranteed admission as long as they a) have at least second-year standing in their PhD studies and have passed the PhD proposal stage; b) are no closer than nine months away from submitting PhD dissertation; c) submit the application materials which are described below; and d) meet the application deadline. 

The application materials for PhD students is described here.

The application process for non-PhD students (i.e., supervisors of PhD student participants or other researchers) is described here.

Supervisors of PhD students are most encouraged to attend the Summer School and their acceptance is automatic. Confirmation of acceptance for other researchers will be emailed in mid-March.


Registration is open: see important dates.

The conference venue: Gorlaeus building, Leiden University, The Netherlands

Local organizing committee
Registration
Registration for the GIREP 2025 Summer School in Leiden
  • Saturday 28 June
    • Break: Registration and Lunch entry hall

      entry hall

      Leiden University, Gorlaeus building

      Einsteinweg 55 2333 CC Leiden
      Conveners: Dr Paul Logman (Leiden University), Stamatis Vokos
    • Welcome: Setting Goals BW0.40

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      Leiden University, Gorlaeus building

      Einsteinweg 55 2333 CC Leiden
      Conveners: Edit Yerushalmi (Weizmann institute), Dr Paul Logman, Stamatis Vokos
    • Working Group 1: Getting to Know One Another BW0.08

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      Leiden University, Gorlaeus building

      Einsteinweg 55 2333 CC Leiden
      • 1
        Getting To Know One Another
        Speakers: Freek Pols, Geraldine Cochran, Dr Matteo Tuveri, Thomas Schubatzky
    • Working Group 2: Getting to Know One Another BW0.18

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      Leiden University, Gorlaeus building

      Einsteinweg 55 2333 CC Leiden
      • 2
        Getting To Know One Another
        Speakers: Christopher Fischer, Edit Yerushalmi (Weizmann institute), Dr Ioannis Lefkos (Laboratory of informatics and Robotics in Education and Society, University of Macedonia), Sergej Faletic
    • Working Group 3: Getting To Know One Another BW0.19

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      • 3
        Getting To Know One Another
        Speakers: Prof. Ingrid Krumphals (University College of Teacher Education Styria), Prof. Jozef Hanč (P. J. Safarik University), Marisa Michelini, Ricardo Avelar Sotomaior Karam (University of Copenhagen)
    • Working Group 4: Getting To Know One Another BW0.29

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      • 4
        Getting To Know One Another
        Speakers: Floor Kamphorst (NTNU), Mieke De Cock, Smadar Levy (Weizmann Institute of Science), Stamatis Vokos
    • Working Group 1: Session 1 BW0.08

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      • 5
        A test in form of a group work, a group work in form of a test
        Speaker: Mikołaj Kałdan (Jagiellonian University of Cracow)
    • Working Group 2: Session 1 BW0.18

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      • 6
        Understanding the nature of science and the development of a scientist identity through research internships in modern physics
        Speaker: Marijn van Nijhuis (Utrecht University of Applied Sciences, Utrecht University)
    • Working Group 3: Session 1 BW0.19

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      • 7
        The Resignification of the Conceptual Field of Electrostatics in Higher Education Teachers: A Case Study
        Speaker: Felipe Lopez (Universidad Aeronáutica en Querétaro)
    • Working Group 4: Group 4: Session 1 BW0.29

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      • 8
        Clarifying Uncertainty in the Nature of Science
        Speaker: Jakub Stepanovic (KU Leuven, LUCA School of Arts)
    • Break: Group 1: Coffee Break Brasserie

      Brasserie

      Leiden University, Gorlaeus building

      Einsteinweg 55 2333 CC Leiden
    • Break: Group 2: Coffee Break Brasserie

      Brasserie

      Leiden University, Gorlaeus building

      Einsteinweg 55 2333 CC Leiden
    • Break: Group 3: Coffee Break Brasserie

      Brasserie

      Leiden University, Gorlaeus building

      Einsteinweg 55 2333 CC Leiden
    • Working Group 1: Session 2
    • Working Group 2: Session 2
      • 10
        Exploring the Photoelectric Effect and the Electromagnetic Spectrum through Art Analysis in Physics Education
        Speaker: Ms Brenda Ixcuiname Saavedra (GIREP 2023)
    • Working Group 3: Session 2
      • 11
        Dropout in science teacher training: causes, influencing factors and support strategies
        Speaker: Anna Reumann-Buczolich (Private Pädagogische Hochschule Burgenland)
    • Break: Group 4: Coffee Break Brasserie

      Brasserie

      Leiden University, Gorlaeus building

      Einsteinweg 55 2333 CC Leiden
    • Working Group 4: Session 2
    • Working Group 1: Session 3
    • Working Group 2: Session 3
    • Working Group 3: Session 3
      • 15
        Exploring Physics Identity: The Interplay of Recognition, Self-Efficacy, Interest, and Belonging in Undergraduate Students
        Speaker: Tolu Akanbi
    • 19:00
      Dinner Restaurant Hudson

      Restaurant Hudson

      Nieuwe Beestenmarkt 15-21, 2312 CG, Leiden

      Panel discussion: PER Past, Present, Future in the eyes of senior researchers: What do you see as important parts of the past of PER that are relevant today, what are some current developments that excite you, and what do you hope for the future of our field?

    • Reflecting Together: Invited Panel: PER--Past, Present, Future Through the Eyes of Senior Researchers Restaurant

      Restaurant

      Flat room for 80

      Conveners: Prof. Jozef Hanč (P. J. Safarik University), Mieke De Cock, Thomas Schubatzky
    • Working Group 1: Session 4
    • Working Group 2: Session 4
    • Working Group 3: Session 4
      • 18
        Interplay between mathematics and physics in teaching and learning modern physics: the case of General Relativity
        Speaker: Alberto Frontino Crisafulli
    • Working Group 4: Session 4
    • Break: Coffee Break Brasserie

      Brasserie

      Leiden University, Gorlaeus building

      Einsteinweg 55 2333 CC Leiden
    • Working Group 1: Session 5
    • Working Group 2: Session 5
    • Working Group 3: Session 5
    • Working Group 4: Session 5
    • Break: Lunch Brasserie

      Brasserie

      Leiden University, Gorlaeus building

      Einsteinweg 55 2333 CC Leiden
    • Working Group 1: Session 6
    • Working Group 2: Session 6
    • Working Group 3: Session 6
      • 26
        The role of mathematics in advanced physics courses for teachers – instructors’ views

        Abstract updated on June 9.

        Speaker: Dan Klein (Weizmann Institute of Science)
    • Working Group 4: Session 6
    • Reflecting Together: Roundtables BW0.40

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      Leiden University, Gorlaeus building

      Einsteinweg 55 2333 CC Leiden

      Flat room for 80

      Conveners: Dr Ioannis Lefkos (Laboratory of informatics and Robotics in Education and Society, University of Macedonia), Ricardo Avelar Sotomaior Karam (University of Copenhagen), Sergej Faletic, Smadar Levy (Weizmann Institute of Science)
    • 16:15
      Break Brasserie

      Brasserie

      Leiden University, Gorlaeus building

      Einsteinweg 55 2333 CC Leiden
    • Understanding the Publication Process: Meeting with PRPER and European Journal of Physics Representatives BW0.40

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      Leiden University, Gorlaeus building

      Einsteinweg 55 2333 CC Leiden
      Conveners: Dr Bor Gregorčič (Uppsala University), Dr Eric Brewe (Drexel University)
    • 19:00
      Dinner, Awards, and Games Brasserie Buitenhuis

      Brasserie Buitenhuis

      J. Pellenbargweg 2 2235 SP Valkenburg