NINE Doctoral Training Partnership: Advanced Training Workshop.
Writing Across Boundaries
Postgraduate Workshop 2018
Each year the Writing Across Boundaries Project runs an intensive, two-day, residential workshop for social science PhD students in their third year to explore analytical and practical approaches to writing and
offers participants an opportunity to reflect on the writing process itself as a form of social science thinking.
Eligible Participants
The workshop is targeted at PhD students in the social sciences in their third year of study, who:
- Are interested in the practice and product of ethnographic writing as a particular way of conveying a contextual understanding of lived reality by drawing on a range of specific methods including, for instance,
participant observation, semi-structured interviews, archival research, visual analysis, life-histories and surveys.
- Are at the point of translating this data into written out-put for a thesis; and
- Have completed their fieldwork and have data that they have begun to process
How to Apply
There are only 30 places available on our 2018 workshop. If you are interested in attending pleasecomplete our online
application form (see link below) by Friday, February 9th 2018(5pm). Candidates
will then be contacted by the Project Team by Friday, February 16th 2018(5pm) as to whether they have been selected to join the workshop.
Please note that the online application form requires a letter of support from your principal supervisor to be attached. This letter is crucial in evaluating your application, as it is important that the needs of
participants are closely matched as possible to the style and content of the workshop.
Here is the link:
Costs
The workshop registration is free for those from our regional and Northern Irish universities (Durham, Newcastle, Northumbria, Teesside, Sunderland, Queens and Ulster). For those from outside the Northern Ireland
and North East Doctoral Training Partnership, we are charging £60. This includes lunch on both days and an evening hot buffet on the 27th of March.
There will be limited overnight accommodation available at Collingwood
College, Durham University, on the 26th, 27th and 28th of March if needed, for £52 per night. If you accept a place on the workshop, you will be provided with a link to book your own accommodation
online. Unfortunately we are not able to assist with accommodation or travel costs for any of the participants.
Further Information