Postgraduate Workshop 2011/12

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.

The next Writing Across Boundaries workshop will take place on Monday, 26 and Tuesday, 27 March 2011 at St Aidan's College, Durham University.

Read the blog of a participant of a previous workshop.

Eligible Participants

The workshop is targetted at PhD students in the social sciences in their third year of study, who:

Have used qualitative methods of data collection;
Are at the point of translating this data into written out-put for a thesis or for publication; and
Have completed their fieldwork and have data that they have begun to process.

Programme

Click here for the outline programme of the workshop.

How to Apply

There are only 45 places available on our 2011/12 workshop. If you are interesting in attending please complete our online application form by Friday, 09 March 2012 (5pm). Candidates will then be contacted by the Project Team by Friday, 16 March 2012 as to whether they have selected to join the workshop.

Please note that the online application form requires a letter of support from your principal supervisor to be attached.

Costs

The workshop will cost £60 to attend (for non Durham/Newcastle participants). This fee includes overnight accomodation on Monday, 26 March (for non Durham/Newcastle participants) and meals during the two days. Participants are able to book accomodation at St Aiden's College on Sunday, 25 March 2012, the evening before, for an additional fee.

Further Information

Please contact Chris Harrop at (+44) 0191 33 41405 | chris.harrop@durham.ac.uk if you require any further information abour the Writing Across Boundaries postgraduate workshop.

Participant Feedback

'The impact [of the workshop] has been phenomenal. I was losing sleep before but when I came back I got straight on to it and wrote reams and reams, so it was like opening a floodgate - it gave me the opportunity to move on as a writer.' (Doctoral Candidate in Education, Workshop 2)

'I was scared before I got there, I felt challenged about things I didn't know about, that I wouldn't know enough. But when I got there I wasn't intimidated at all, everyone was very willing to share. It gave me permission to let my creative intuition take me forward.' (Doctoral candidate in Gerontology, Workshop 3)

'As someone with a natural science background, qualitative data is still new to me and analysing and writing up 'words' rather than numbers is a daunting process.' (Doctoral Candidate in Environmental Science, Workshop 3)