The USC Price School of Public Policy hosted the 2015 Association of Collegiate Schools of Planning (ACSP) PhD Workshop in August.
Around 20 planning doctoral students gathered at USC to share their dissertation research, revising their designs during the workshop under repeated review by peers and faculty serving as coaches. Participating Price School faculty included Marlon Boarnet, Genevieve Giuliano, Dowell Myers, Lisa Schweitzer and David Sloane.
The workshop enabled planning doctoral students from North America and beyond to gather and discuss the practical details of creating and distributing leading-edge academic knowledge about problems in the planning field. Students learned to sharpen their ability to convey the why, what, how and who of research: What purpose does your inquiry serve? What is your hypothesis, proposition or argument? How do you expect to conduct your inquiry? And who is the audience you seek to persuade about your research?
USC Price hosted the PhD workshop for the first time since it was originated here in 2000, under the principal leadership of Professor Genevieve Giuliano. For the past several years, the workshop – rotated among the nation’s leading universities – has been under the continuing directorship of John Landis, professor at the University of Pennsylvania.