PhD Community

Shaping the future of experimental research 

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The IGL PhD community brings together early-career researchers looking to enhance their skills in experimental research and get feedback from both their peers and senior scholars.

By offering both structured workshops and one-on-one mentoring opportunities, this initiative helps cultivate the next generation of experimental researchers. It also contributes to a more diverse and connected research field by engaging students across institutions, disciplines, and backgrounds.

With this initiative, we aim to bring together the emerging research community and lower the barriers to experimental research by creating spaces for skill-building, peer exchange, and direct mentorship.

The main activity of the PhD Community will be a workshop series led and curated by PhD students and early-career researchers.

The goal is to create a space for early-stage researchers to learn directly from field experiment scholars about the practical, sometimes invisible, decisions that shape experimental research in organisations and management, while getting feedback from both peers and senior scholars. 

The workshop series will be divided into two main session types, starting in September 2025:

• Behind-the-Scenes -Talks by senior researchers, focused on the practical, sometimes invisible, decisions that shape experimental research in organizations and management.These sessions follow the rough timeline of a typical journal publication process for field experiments, starting with experimental design and pre-registration, then moving toward implementation, recruitment, funding, revision, and publishing. Sessions will run every other month, with each session focused on a concrete stage of the research process. 

• Idea Pitch Sessions – Spaces for PhD students to present early-stage research ideas and trial designs, and receive feedback from both peers and senior researchers. This session is inspired by the CFXS (link) idea pitch sessions, and will run roughly every other month depending on interest.

Workshop series schedule

Behind the Scenes

📅September 16, 2025 – 2:00-3:00 pm BST / 9:00-10:00 am EST –
Pre-registration and Trial Design

📌 Topic: Pre-registration and Trial Design

👤 Discussants: David McKenzie –  Lead Economist, World Bank; Amisha Miller – Assistant Professor, NYU Stern.