Research and digitalization: application for rural development
Whether you are new to digital tools or simply curious about how modern technology intersects with research on rural development, this course offers a beginner's guide to digital tools for research on rural development and focuses on practical, user-to-user understanding.
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Participants will learn how AI, GIS, drones and large language models are used in research, conduct surveys, and understand the socio-economic and ethical implications of digitalization in rural contexts.
The content is structured in 12 units, each with lectures, readings, videos and practical exercises, all at your own pace.
Key Dates
- Course start: January 2026
- Registration deadline: 16 March 2026
- Course conclusion by 17 April 2026 (final closing session)
Lesgever/spreker
Marijke D’Haese is professor in rural development economics. She spent her childhood in Africa and returned to home-country Belgium to study Bioscience engineering at Ghent University. She graduated as a bioscience engineer in 1997, after which she was appointed as a research assistant at the Department of Agricultural Economics of that university. This six-years teaching-research appointment resulted in a PhD on the economics of woolgowers’ associations in the Transkei region in South Africa in 2003. In 2004 she left Ghent to work as an assistant professor at the Development Economics Group at Wageningen University. She returned to Ghent in 2007, first as post-doc assistant and from 2010 as a professor. She teaches on development economics and rural development.
