May 09-12, 2010 Langenthal/Switzerland
Pre-Conference Research Workshop on Religion, Spirituality and Health with Prof. Dr. Harold G. Koenig
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Preceding the Conference we invite you to participate in a Research Workshop with Prof. Dr. Harold G. Koenig. He is known as the senior author of the “Handbook of Religion and Health” and co-director of the Center for Spirituality, Theology and Health. This center offers a 2-year post-doc program in religion and health, which Dr. Koenig compressed into 4-day workshops. |
The following topics will be discussed:
- Previous research on religion, spirituality and health
- Importance of definitions
- Understanding mechanisms and pathways
- Highest priority studies for future research
- Strengths and weaknesses of religion and spirituality measures
- Designing different types of research projects
- Statistics and statistical modeling
- Funding your research
- Writing a grant
- Managing a research project
- Writing a research paper for publication
- Developing an academic career in this area
Mentorship meetings with Prof. Koenig will allow participants to discuss individual research projects.
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