On April 28-30, Khachik Harutyunyan, Expert of Transparency International Anticorruption Center took part in a three-day interactive workshop at the University of Basel on research methods of corruption and their application. The workshop was designed to provide working professionals and interested stakeholders with the necessary conceptual and methodological tools to undertake corruption research applicable to a wide variety of topics, contexts and aims.

The workshop brought together a group of academics, practitioners from governmental and non-governmental institutions, as well as private sector compliance officers from around the world. It included lectures on research design and methodologies to address the challenges involved in researching corruption as well as applied group work and discussions where participants applied the concepts and theories learned.