Dear Doctoral Candidates

We are looking very much forward to seeing all of you soon in Denmark 😊

Please find a draft program attached. The Opening workshop centers very much around allowing you time to present your projects and get feedback and supervision from the supervisors present.

Notes on the PhD project presentations:

Each PhD fellow will give a 10–15 minute presentation introducing their PhD project. The purpose is to give the cohort and supervisors a clear sense of your project at this early stage and to identify questions, uncertainties, or challenges that we can discuss together during the workshop.

Please prepare a short PowerPoint presentation of maximum 5 slides and send to Mia by October 27.

Your presentation should include:

• Your project in brief
  Introduce the overall topic and context of your PhD project.
• Research aims and questions
  What do you want to understand or explore? Present your main research aim(s) and preliminary research question(s).
• Research design
  Briefly describe how you currently envisage carrying out the project, including relevant methods, field sites/settings, participants etc.
• Practical questions and anticipated challenges
  Highlight a few issues that are particularly relevant to your project at this stage. These might concern, for example, access to the field, recruitment, ethics, language, methods, data collection, collaboration with institutions or communities.

Please also formulate one or two questions that you would especially like feedback or discussion on from the cohort and supervisors.

• Preliminary timeline
  Give a simple overview of your current plan for the PhD, including anticipated periods of fieldwork/data collection, secondment, analysis, writing, training activities.

At this stage, we are not expecting a fully developed or fixed project plan. Projects will change as they develop. The aim of the presentation is therefore also to make visible the questions that are still open and to use the collective experience of the group to think them through, and discover how the individual projects are related to each other.

Dietary requirements: Please write back to Mia if you have any special dietary requirements.

Warm wishes,

Lotte and Mia