WTMC Writeshop 10 October 2025

On Friday, October 10 2025, WTMC will organize the next Writeshop. WTMC writeshops are meant for WTMC PhDs who have completed at least four training events. A training event is a summer school or an (online) workshop.

WTMC Writeshops are a splendid occasion to receive comprehensive comments on your own work, but also to read work of your fellow PhD candidates. By carefully reading the work of others in order to give feedback you can learn a lot about writing. At the Writeshop, we also discuss more general issues around finishing journal articles, book chapters, and dissertations, and what to do with them once they are done.

We are very happy to announce that Wolfgang Kaltenbrunner will act as our senior discussant this time.

Wolfgang Kaltenbrunner is a senior researcher and deputy director at the Centre for Science and Technology Studies (CWTS) at Leiden University. Wolfgang’s work focuses on scholarly communication and how its various formats and practices shape the knowledge created by academic researchers across different fields. This includes attending to the constitutive effects of research evaluation, changing forms of academic self-representation, political economies of academic work, as well as attempts to innovate scholarly publishing. He is also a member of the WTMC Board.

The idea of the Writeshop is as follows. Each participant sends in a draft chapter or article that will be part of the PhD manuscript. Authors are also invited to provide a short (i.e. max. 300 word) contextualization of the draft. During the meeting, two discussants provide comments – a fellow participant and our senior discussant. The author then has an opportunity to respond to these comments before the discussion is opened to everyone. Each paper is discussed for a total of 55 minutes.

The exact timing and location of the Writeshop will depend on the registrations received. The starting time could be late morning or after lunch; any in any case, the Writeshop will end with an informal diner, no later than 19:30. The location will be in the Amsterdam/Utrecht area.

This Writeshop will be chaired by Evelien de Hoop.

The word limit for contributions is 10,000 words. The manuscript must be academic work-in-progress (i.e. not already published). Do not worry if your text is not perfect yet: this is precisely why you would want to discuss it in this forum. The draft should be well enough developed so your readers can understand the argument and the material, in order to get more specific and helpful feedback. Make sure your paper includes a short introduction which explains how the piece fits into your PhD, which journal you plan to send it to, or any other relevant details to help the reader understand the text.

Registration for the Writeshop will be possible between September 1st and September 15th, 2025. Registered participants are expected to submit a draft chapter or article by September 22nd 2025, so that they can be circulated to all participants prior to the meeting and that everyone has time to prepare their commentary.