Doctoral Workshops: Basic Information

The seminar takes place on specified Tuesdays from 10:00-12:00. Coordinators: Zachary Van Winkle & Allison Rovny. 

The aim of the workshop is to guide current PhD candidates through their initial years of doctoral training by providing institutional information, advice for PhD and post-PhD professional life, exercises in academic writing and publishing, conference and job presentations, and more.

The workshop implements CRIS’ internationalization strategy by enabling PhD candidates to prepare their academic work for presentation and publication at international conferences and in international journals and outlets.

The collective training provided by the workshop should be seen as complementary to individual and small-group training activities related to the specific theoretical and methodological approaches taken by individual PhD candidates within their projects.

In practice, the workshop consists of seminars, during which general information and skills relevant to academicresearch and careers are transferred, and workshop sessions, where attendees actively comment and support each other during pre-submission writing, revise and resubmission, and presentations.

Seminars begin with a 45-minute input and discussion lead by a faculty member of CRIS, for example on advice for PhD and post-PhD professional life, exercises in academic writing and publishing, conference and job presentations, and more. The second half of the session can be used as a mini- workshop where PhD candidates can, for example, discuss paper ideas, practice conference presentations or workshop conferences submissions.

Workshops sessions

Workshops are organized according to candidates’ needs. Sessions may follow one of the Following modalities or a form agreed upon with the workshop coordinators. 

• Pre-Submission Manuscript
• Revise & Resubmit
• Conference Presentation
• Job Talk

Fall sessions

• September 9th, Introduction & PhD Candidacy at CRIS
• September 23rd, Session with Sophia Noel (PhD Candidate)
• October 7th, Research Seminars Introductions (individual presentations)
• October 21th, TBD
• November 4th, Literature and Evidence Reviews and Analyses in the Social Sciences (Bastian Betthaüser)
• November 18th, TBD

Spring sessions

• Academic Writing and First Submission (Magda Boutros)
• Workshop
• Revise and Resubmission during Publication (Sukriti Issar)
• Workshop
• Planning for Post-PhD Professional Life
• Workshop