WTMC Writeshop 14 October, 2024
On Monday October 14, 2024, WTMC will organize the next Writeshop at the Social Impact Factory in Utrecht. 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 Jarno Hoekman will act as our senior discussant this time.
Jarno Hoekman is an associate professor in science and innovation studies at the Copernicus Institute of Sustainable Development, Utrecht University. His research focuses on the changing roles and institutionalisation of scientific knowledge production and use in light of contemporary sustainability and health challenges. He is amongst others involved in various research projects on regulatory science and risk assessment of chemicals and pharmaceuticals and on new institutional arrangements for governing scientific knowledge production such as open science and the impact agenda. He also has a long-standing interest in geography of science and the roles of companies in scientific publishing. Besides research, he is amongst others responsible for PhD education at the Graduate School of Geosciences on responsible conduct of research and open science. 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.
Depending on the number of participants, the Writeshop will start at 12:30 at the Social Impact Factory in Utrecht. It will end with an informal diner, no later than 19:30.
This Writeshop will be chaired by Alexandra Supper and/or Evelien de Hoop, the PhD programme coordinators of WTMC.
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 2nd and September 16th, 2024. Registered participants are expected to submit a draft chapter or article by September 23rd, 2024, so that they can be circulated to all participants prior to the meeting and that everyone has time to prepare their commentary.
You can register from today until 16 September 2024 by clicking here !
Contributions must be sent to the WTMC secretariat ([email protected]) by 23 September 2024 at the latest, as *.doc-files (no PDFs). She will then send them to all participants prior to the meeting so that everyone has time to read all of the chapters. You will also then receive a concise reader with practical information.
If you have any content-related questions regarding this writeshop, please feel free to contact the training coordinators Alexandra Supper: [email protected] or Evelien de Hoop: [email protected]
For practical questions, please contact [email protected]
