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 workshop will be in Spring 2022. Details on the workshop and how to apply will be posted here nearer the time

Eligible Participants

The workshop is for 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.

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.

There will be limited overnight accommodation available at one of the Durham University Colleges, if needed, for £50 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

Please contact Cathrine Degnen on [email protected] , or Tom Yarrow on [email protected] , if you require any further information about the Writing Across Boundaries workshop.