The SPRING.fluence team presents the results of their study on the influence of SPRING alumni in their role as change agents in their home countries.
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Former SPRING students from Ghana and Nepal were interviewed for the research project. Click here to access the invitation to the presentation of the research results.
Dear SPRING-students, dear SPRING-alumni
over the past 1 ½ years, we had the opportunity to interview numerous Ghanaian and Nepalese SPRING-alumni about change processes they may have initiated in their home countries and to jointly reflect on their role as change agents in their home countries. Supervised by Prof. Dr. Susanne Frank, the research project SPRING.fluence was carried out at Urban and Regional Sociology research group by Dr. Karin Gaesing and Annika Guhl and funded by the German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD).
Building on a standardized survey of all Ghanaian and Nepalese SPRING-alumni from the starting years up to and including 2015/16, in which we were able to achieve a response rate of 63%, 32 qualitative intensive interviews with selected alumni took place. The results show that the alumni explicitly see themselves as change agents who can and want to initiate sustainable changes in their home countries, not only in their professional but also in their private environments and in the field of civil society.
We would hereby like to invite you to the presentation of the results of our SPRING.fluence project on April 27th. The event will start at 2:30pm German time and will last about 1 ½ hours. Our project leader, Prof. Dr. Susanne Frank, will open the event with a short greeting. We will present our key findings and then give you the space to ask questions or initiate discussions. Optionally, we would like to offer all participants the opportunity to network after the event. We expect an exciting audience of SPRING-alumni, current SPRING-students, researchers, and university teaching staff.
The event will take place via zoom. You can register for the event with the following link:
https://umfragen.tu-dortmund.de/index.php/371949?lang=en
Please register by April 25th so that we can send you the link to join the zoom meeting in time. Feel free to forward this invitation to other people around you who might be interested in our results. We would be very happy to share our findings with you.
Best regards and hopefully see you soon
Dr. Karin Gaesing and Annika Guhl