If you are supervising a 3rd (or 4th) year doctoral candidate in the social sciences (broadly conceived!) who is engaged in writing up qualitative data, then you might be interested in applying for them to attend the annual Writing Across Boundaries workshop.  This is the Eighth year that this very well-received and popular doctoral writing workshop has run, and the fourth time that we are accepting nominations from outside the UK, as well as from British universities. The workshop now runs as an advanced training workshop of the ESRC North East Doctoral Training Centre.  

Please forward this message to relevant doctoral candidates and supervisors in your School.  Please note, however, that doctoral candidates cannot apply direct but have to be nominated by their supervisor. 

This two day workshop will cost £60 to attend (and free to doctoral students from our regional universities of Durham, Newcastle, Northumbria, Sunderland and Teesside). This fee includes all meals and study materials over the two days, and overnight accommodation at Collingwood College on 19 and 20 April can be arranged at an extra cost.

Further details, including online nomination forms, are available on the website associated with the project:

 

https://www.dur.ac.uk/writingacrossboundaries/

There is considerable, ongoing, interest in the Writing on Writing section of the site, where social science luminaries (including for egs Marilyn Strathern, Norman Denzin, Howard Becker, Arthur Frank and Tim Ingold) write short pieces reflecting on their writing practices and preferences. There is also a section where doctoral candidates can submit pieces on writing, called Postgraduates on Writing.  

With best wishes

Robin Humphrey (Newcastle University) and Bob Simpson (Durham University)