Susan Parnell, SNIS SC President, Jan Klabbers, SC member

So one of the things which is for me always helpful, is the research question clear? Okay. And that's actually quite difficult to do when you have a group. It's much easier when you're a lone researcher to have a very clear research question. And so having, if you can start off by having a really clear research question, but then your research design demonstrates how the component parts of the project, because in a large project, they are always component parts.

Okay. And that's how we put these projects together. But do the Lego blocks. make up something that is greater than the individual legible components. And quite often what you'll see is little components that are actually all quite interesting. But the research overarching research question is not clear.

And the way that the component parts relate back To the core question is not clear and then you certainly see that in the methods because typically what happens is that different elements of the projects have slightly different methods or methodological components. The question of how you bring all these things together at the other end to say, so what?

Who's that going to, what difference is this going to make? Who's that going to interact with? That doesn't always get defined very well. And then finally, I think that the really crucial thing is it's a bit like casting in a play. Are the people who are involved in the project the right people and do they have the right size role?

So it's that coherence and clarity that for me marks art a really distinguished application.

Jan Klabbers, SNIS SC member

I would think a project is a good project if it ends up telling me something about the world I live in that does not. exclude delving into theories and seeing whether someone was right or wrong. That does not exclude using particular methods to show how well they are adapted to the problem at hand.

But if it stays at that, then it doesn't tell me much about the world I live in.

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Academic research and policies on migration are at odds with each other as to what is to be done regarding the series of tensions and crises that have become "normal" on this subject in Europe.

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