About
RMI, the Research and Methodology Initiative, is a student-led programme at Robert College that introduces high school students to academic research and runs the Research and Methodology Conference. The first conference, RMI'26, brought more than 150 participants together over five hours: four speaker sessions, and a workshop block where participants chose between a global issues case study, a research panel simulation, a cancer awareness workshop, and a robotics workshop run by the school's FRC team, ARC#6014. RMI'27 is the second, and it runs for two days on the Robert College campus in Istanbul.
About RMI
The Research and Methodology Initiative (RMI) is an initiative that brings Robert College students together to learn about academic research and put it into practice. We meet online every Monday and go through each stage of the research process together. In these meetings, we teach students every part of research, including choosing a topic, reviewing sources, selecting a methodology and academic writing.
At the end of the academic year, each student writes a research paper on a topic of their choice, which gives them the chance to turn what they have learned during the year into a concrete result.
Every year, around the middle of the academic year, we organize the RMI Conference. Expert researchers join the conference as speakers and share their work and experiences with us. Alongside the talks, we also offer fun elective workshops that broaden our perspective.
If you are interested in research or would like to explore the field, we look forward to seeing you at RMI!
About Robert College
Founded in 1863, Robert College is the oldest American school still in existence outside the United States. Its campus sits on the European shore of the Bosphorus in Istanbul.
Today Robert College is an independent, co-educational high school. It admits students on merit, through Turkey's national high school entrance exam, and teaches in English and Turkish.