ECTS: 3
Course leader: Jakob Bek-Thomsen
Language: English
Graduate school: Faculty of Arts
Course fee: 0.00 DKK
Status: Course is finished
Semester: Spring 2024
Application deadline: 01/02/2024
Cancellation deadline: 05/04/2024
Course type: Blended learning
Start date: 22/04/2024
Administrator: Anders Gade Jensen
Aim:
Peer groups have been shown to offer PhD students significant benefits, including disciplinary, practical, moral, and emotional support. This seminar consists of two elements, firstly a writing retreat offering time for writing in the beautiful surroundings of Ørslev Kloster, and a series of workshops focused on peer support, feedback strategies, planning strategies and writing tools. It thus offers a set of tools that will help PhD students when writing the dissertation and academic articles, introducing them to, for example, peer groups as a support strategy and to a variety of writing strategies and techniques, including peer feedback methods, as well as to the peer review process and dissertation assessment criteria and genres. Before the seminar, PhD students will submit a draft of the article/paper/chapter that they intend to work on at Ørslev (10-25 pages). As part of the seminar, they will receive feedback on this draft from lecturers as well as their peers. The seminar is initiated by the three PhD-programme-directors at School of Culture and Society (CAS), Aarhus University, and we expect participants to represent different disciplines within CAS. When setting up the groups for feedback and when allocating senior respondents, we will do our best to make appropriate and fruitful matches, so that historians, anthropologists, philosophers etc. will in general be grouped with PhD-students from their own or closely related disciplines. At the same time, we hope to facilitate cross-disciplinary meetings during workshops and social events.
Application:
To sign up for this seminar please send a short email to Jakob Bek-Thomsen (idejbt@cas.au.dk) by February 1 with the Subject: Ørslev PhD Writing Retreat. The application should contain a short description of the article or chapter, on which you intend to work while at Sandbjerg and if you wish to receive feedback on any specific aspect of your text. Please also indicate if you have any dietary restrictions.
The final text should be sent April 15.
Please note that sign-up is binding and subject to self-funding for cancellations later than April 5.
Venue:
Location: Ørslev Kloster, Denmark (http://www.oerslev-kloster.dk/dansk)
Course dates:
- 22 April 2024 12:00 - 18:00
- 23 April 2024 08:30 - 18:00
- 24 April 2024 08:30 - 18:00
- 25 April 2024 08:30 - 13:00