Writeshop March 7, 2024
On Thursday March 7, 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 Johanna Höffken will act as our senior discussant this time. In case more than four PhDs register, we will find a second discussant.
Johanna Höffken is an Associate Professor in the Technology, Innovation & Society group at Eindhoven University of Technology. She holds an MSc of International Relations from Dresden University of Technology as well as a Master Degree in Science and Technology Studies at Maastricht University. She received her PhD at the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences of Maastricht University in 2012, where she finished her dissertation “Power to the People? Civic Engagement with Small-scale Hydroelectric Plants in India”. During her time as PhD candidate, she followed the WTMC training programme and acted as a fellow in the Program on Science, Technology and Society at Harvard University. Her areas of expertise include science and technology studies and (sustainable) development studies. Johanna is interested in questions around responsible energy futures. She follows this interest both in her research and in her teaching activities. Her current research, funded under EU and national programs, revolves around just energy transitions and energy communities in Europe and India.
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. 2-300 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 Andreas Weber, 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 January 22nd and February 12th, 2024. Registered participants are expected to submit a draft chapter or article by February 19th, 2024, so that they can be circulated to all participants prior to the meeting and that everyone has time to prepare their commentary.
The registration has been closed.
If you have any content-related questions regarding this writeshop, please feel free to contact the training coordinators Alexandra Supper: [email protected] or Andreas Weber: [email protected]
For practical questions, please contact [email protected]
