Doctoral Programme in Social Sciences

Call for Papers: “Voices from the Margin(s) – Historical and Contemporary Perspectives on Diverse Nordic Experiences”

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

Practical skills in Ph.D. studies – supervision and assessment

The FRRESH Autumn seminar will focus on practical skills. The seminar is divided into two sessions with one focusing on supervision and the other on teaching. The morning panel will discuss supervision both from the supervisor’s and the graduate students’ viewpoint and the afternoon workshop will share best practices in assessment of the undergraduate students. 

The relationship between the supervisor and the Ph.D. candidate is crucial for a successful completion of a dissertation. What do supervisors expect from Ph.D. students and what do students expect from supervisors? Are there differences in the way supervision is conducted in national academic contexts? These are among the questions tackled in the panel with supervisors and Ph.D. candidates from Finland, Russia, and the UK.

The panel will be followed by a workshop on teaching. Among the many challenges in teaching at a university level, assessment of undergraduate students’ work is often the hard one. Come and share your experience of teaching, discuss difficulties, and discover best practices with the Aleksanteri Institute’s teaching and research staff!

Please register by Friday 16 November at https://elomake.helsinki.fi/lomakkeet/93323/lomake.html.

Preliminary programme:

 Friday, 23 November

 10:00-12:00                          Panel on supervision

12:00-13:00                          Lunch break

 13:00-16:00                          Workshop on teaching and assessment

 

 

The Council of Finnish Academies, together with the Centre for European Studies, University of Helsinki, cordially invites you to a seminar:

EUROPE ON TEST: NARRATIVES OF UNION AND DISUNION – THE NORDIC PERSPECTIVE

November 14, 2018 Helsinki, The House of The Estates, 9 am – 4 pm.

“Europe on Test: Narratives of Union and Disunion” – a series of seminars hosted by selected Academies of Sciences and Humanities in various European cities and coordinated by ALLEA – will address these and other aspects of relevance for the future of Europe as a community. Renowned scholars will debate and illuminate the significance of such narratives from a variety of different angles and within their national contexts.

The Nordic perspective on Europe will be explored at the conference organized by The Council of Finnish Academies at The House of the Estates Helsinki on November 14, 2018. The focus of this conference will be on the role of the Nordic societies in the European and global context. The speakers will debate about the essence of the Nordic welfare state and about the legacies of history on the ideas and ideologies in the Nordic countries. Then the focus will move to the present times and Nordic societies struggling with issues of migration and multiculturalism giving room for populism and extremist political movements with the aim/under the banner of defending the traditional Nordic values.

The full program and further information can be found athttp://www.academies.fi/europeontest/

Please register you attendance at http://www.academies.fi/europeontest/ by November 6th 2018.

PROGRAMME

08:30–09:00 Registration

09:00–09:10 Welcome by Professor Jan Sundberg

09:10-09:20 Greeting from ALLEA by Chancellor emerita Krista Varantola

09:20–10:55 Session 1: Europe and the Nordics

Chair: Dr Juhana Aunesluoma, Centre for European Studies, University of Helsinki

Professor emeritus Bo Stråth, University of Helsinki

Professor Mary Hilson, Aarhus University

Professor Karl-Erik Michelsen, Lappeenranta University of Technology

10:55–11:10 Coffee and Nibbles

11:10–12:35 Session 2: Mobility, migration and refuge

Chair: Professor Jan Sundberg, University of Helsinki

Professor Thomas Hylland Eriksen, University of Oslo

Dr Camilla Nordberg, University of Helsinki

13:35 –15:00 Session 3: Politics, populism, and extremist movements

Professor Roger Eatwell, University of Bath

Dr Ann-Cathrine Jungar, Centre for Baltic and East European Studies (CBEES)

Professor Juha Herkman, University of Helsinki

15:00 –16:00 Reflections

Chair: Professor Józef Niżnik, Polish Academy of Sciences

Session Chairs from sessions 1, 2 and 3.

Dear fellow PhD student!

Research data management and its planning (DMP) is a hot topic throughout the year – not only while the Academy of Finland’s call is open.

Even the Finnish Cultural Foundation (Suomen Kulttuurirahasto) recommends a DMP as an appendix of the application.

We have three more RDM Basics lectures this year where we walk you through the basic terminology and concepts of research data management. The next lecture is tomorrow – Tuesday 23.10.

For more information and enrollments, please, see:

https://blogs.helsinki.fi/librarynews/2018/10/22/research-data-management-basics-sign-up-for-the-courses-on-23-10-22-11-or-11-12/