Collaboration between multiple faculty members and graduate students is essential to reorganizing knowledge, and we have established project seminars as a forum for promoting this collaboration.
The project seminar will have a research project consisting of faculty members and graduate students. The project will be run mainly by graduate students, with faculty members also participating. Several faculty members will participate in the project as navigator faculty members, providing guidance, advice, and discussions to graduate students to achieve the results of the project research.
The main project themes include research on the policy formation process, sustainability, fiscal and regional policy, and corporate management and IT. In order to develop highly skilled experts who can formulate policies from a broad perspective that transcends academic fields, Graduate School of Policy Studies, Doctoral Program encourages students to join multiple seminars to raise awareness of issues across research fields and to focus on the topic of their doctoral thesis.
Main project themes
Policy formation process research
The fields of study are diverse, including regional cultural policy, public economics, social policy, and East Asian studies. We have a system of joint guidance, with an interest in the policy-making and policy-formation process. We hold transdisciplinary discussions that go beyond the fields of expertise to provide useful guidance from a variety of perspectives on each of our graduate students' research themes.
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Sustainability Research
We will handle various issues related to social, economic, and environmental sustainability in a comprehensive and interdisciplinary manner, and provide exercises for writing doctoral dissertations through qualitative and quantitative research. We will provide joint research guidance from a variety of perspectives, including policy studies, economics, business administration, environmental studies, sociology, statistics, and urban studies, in response to each student's individual research theme.
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Fiscal and financial/regional policy research
The fields of study are diverse, including public finance, financial theory, social security theory, accounting, etc. Because of the joint supervision system, graduate students can receive a lot of useful guidance from various perspectives regarding their research themes.
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Business Management and IT Research
Learn about new trends in corporate management, such as corporate policies, business start-ups and management innovation, and responses to the SDGs, as well as the role of regional industry promotion policies. Focus on corporate management methods that utilize IT (especially AI, etc.) and the impact of IT on organizations and management, and deepen your understanding of the relationship between corporate management and IT.
The fields of study are diverse, including information science, accounting, environmental management, etc. Because of the joint supervision system, graduate students can receive a lot of useful guidance from multiple perspectives regarding their research themes.
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