HCAS WINTER SCHOOL 2019: “WRITING AND PUBLISHING”

HCAS WINTER SCHOOL 2019: “WRITING AND PUBLISHING”

The Helsinki Collegium for Advanced Studies (HCAS) welcomes doctoral candidates of the Doctoral School in Humanities and Social Sciences at the University of Helsinki to the HCAS Winter School on Humanities and Social Sciences, January 23–25, 2019. Registration opens on November 8 and closes on November 23. 

HCAS is an independent research institute within the University of Helsinki. Its intensive Winter Schools are organized annually and give doctoral students a chance to learn crucial skills and practices related to academic research and career and to discuss their work with more experienced researchers in an interdisciplinary and international setting. The Winter schools train doctoral candidates in interdisciplinary research, practice and thinking and offer junior scholars the opportunity to envision their work in refreshing and unconventional ways.

This year our special focus is writing and publishing. The School will thus deal with questions such as

• how to improve your academic writing skills 
• publishing in academic journals; publishing your first monograph
• PhD theses: articles or a monograph
• how to write effective grant and fellowship applications
• public outreach: how to present and disseminate your research beyond academia and how to include this dimension in your career as a researcher
• how open science is changing academic publishing

The Winter School is organized and taught by Collegium fellows. The fellows are specialized in interdisciplinary research in the humanities, social sciences, law, behavioral sciences, and theology. The Collegium aims at enhancing high-quality interdisciplinary research within these disciplines by fostering dialogue between different academic orientations, by encouraging the integration of approaches from different disciplines, and by supporting the internationality of Finnish research in these fields and interaction between scholars from all over the world. 

The Winter School consists of lectures and of workshops geared to students’ own contributions and questions. The workshops offer doctoral candidates the opportunity to receive feedback from the teaching faculty and other doctoral candidates in a relaxed environment. The various thematic panels during the Winter School program gather together both current Collegium Fellows and researchers and specialists from outside the Collegium, who share their knowledge of different facets of academic publishing. The School days begin around 9 am and end around 4 pm. The workload of the Winter School is 3 ECTS. The registration of the credits will be done at the doctoral schools or disciplines, so the students will have to speak to their supervisors about this beforehand. The Collegium will only write a certificate of attendance to the participants. The language of the Winter School is English. The detailed program of the Winter School will be sent to the participants in the beginning of January.

 

Registration and submission of papers:

 

Doctoral candidates wishing to participate in the Winter School are requested to register in Weboodi by November 23, 2018. Upon registration participants are asked to give their basic information and summarize their biography as a writer of academic texts and their possible previous experience in academic publishing and popularization of science. The registration form can be accessed on Weboodi (from Thursday, November 8, at 9 am; you can access it when you are signed in in the system): https://weboodi.helsinki.fi/hy/opasopettaptied.jsp?MD5avain=ed4ec400-4baa-4b55-bbcd-783247179992&Kieli=1&k_OpasSurr=1&OpetTap=126545409&sortJarj=6

Participants should also submit a piece of writing in advance; this text will serve as a basis for assignments and discussions in small groups during the Winter School. Please choose one of the following assignments, follow the detailed instructions and submit one piece of writing by January 15, 2019. The instructions for sending the assignment will be sent to registered participants. Be prepared to present and discuss your text with the members of your small group.

1) Submit a sample (max. 5 pages) of a piece of academic writing you want to revise for publication and an abstract of the whole text (max. 1 page). Your sample may be from an article draft or dissertation manuscript and it should ideally include the introduction of the text. Please also include an additional paragraph in which you explain the current status of the project and the possible venue(s) for publication.

2) Submit a hypothetical or real research plan for a funding application for a specific foundation or for e.g. the University of Helsinki funded doctoral position (max. 5 pages) and abstract (max. 1 page).

3) Submit an abstract of an academic text (aka journal article, introduction of PhD thesis) that you wish to revise for publication in a different format. Explain the publication venue that you will be aiming for (e.g. a post in a scholarly blog, an article in a non-academic journal or newspaper, a report etc.), detailing in particular: who is your imagined target audience for this piece & why do you wish to reach them?

 Organizers: 

Miia Halme-Tuomisaari, HCAS Core Fellow 

Alexandre Nikolaev, HCAS Core Fellow

Ritva Palmén, HCAS Core Fellow

 

Contact: Kaisa Kaakinen (kaisa.kaakinen@helsinki.fi), Project Planner, HCAS