PhD Symposium 2025 - Into the academic Werkstatt, the craft of writing and preparing for publication.
Application for approval of a PhD course at IT University
PhD symposium Spring 2025: Into the academic Werkstatt, the craft of writing and preparing for publication.
Organizer(s): Kasper Støy, Professor, Head of PhD School, the ITU.
Lecturers:
Mirjam Godskesen, PhD. Consultant & Coach, owner of UNWIND & Part-time lecturer at AAU
Liv Gish, PhD. Consultant & Coach, owner of Nordic Writing Academy
Date(s) of the course: March 20-21, 2025
Deadline of notification: The PhD school supports sustainable thinking, so: please notify PhD Support within the final deadline of notification/cancelation on 11-02-2025..
With such notification, the number of reservations equals participation, whereby we, hopefully, partake in minimizing waste of resources.
Time:
March 20th – 17:00 March 21th 2025.
We meet at 8:30 as the bus leaves at 08:45 in front of the ITU (by the main entrance).
Location:
Kongevejen 495A, 2840 Holte
Course description:
The symposium is interdisciplinary in focus and cater to PhD-students in all stages of their studies, from newly enrolled to graduates. The symposium concentrates on the writing process and preparing academic work for publication whether it concerns scientific articles or PhD dissertations, herein monographs or kappas of article-based PhD dissertations. The aim with the symposium is to train PhD-students’ skills in the academic craftwork of writing, establishing productive writing habits and, in this, to train their skills de-coding the (often) unarticulated, yet established, codes in publications, which underpin the process of writing.
The symposium is hands-on based and includes lectures, exercises, individual writing sessions, peer-feedback, and plenum discussions. The program is composed with the purpose for PhD-students to actively engage with their own and their peer’s work in relation to the theoretical parts of the symposium.
PhD students are asked to bring a text in progress, to locate three examples of published work (e.g. articles and/or introductions to PhD dissertations) and to write a short reflections on own strengths and challenges in writing. For further details see below ‘Preparation for the symposium’.
Evaluation: Upon completion, attending PhD students are invited to evaluate the symposium.
Learning outcome:
Having completed the full symposium successfully, PhD students will be able to:
- reflect on your strengths and challenges as a writer
- account for and use different techniques that can aid the process of writing
- use storytelling to create a narrative in your research article
- analyze embedded codes in publications
- explicitly define your criteria for a good text and evaluate the quality
- give and receive feedback in an effective and structured way
- use different techniques when you revise your texts
Programme:
Day 1
Upon arrival, and after a short introduction to the symposium by Kasper Støy, Mirjam Godskesen opens with a lecture on different aspects of writing. After one hour you will be writing on your own text (work in progress brought along to the symposium). After lunch we focus on storytelling facilitated by both Liv Gish and Mirjam. In small groups you will help each other make the narrative in your text clear and there will be time to implement the changes in your own text. We end the day with a session on ‘what is a good text’. It is very important that you prepare for this session, see below ‘Preparation for the symposium’.
Day 2
Liv opens the day with journal analysis. She presents a strategic and systematic approach on how to choose a journal. The next topic is peer-feedback facilitated by both Liv and Mirjam. You will share pieces of the text you have written and give each other feedback in smaller groups After lunch Liv will introduce tools to support text revision and there will be time to write on or revise your own text.
Day 1 – Thursday, March 20th, 2025
08:30 Meet at ITU
08:45 Departure from ITU by bus to Comwell Holte
09:30 Arrival and coffee
10:00 Introduction to the symposium (Kasper Støy)
10:15-12:15 Introduction to writing challenges and tools + writing on own text (Mirjam Godskesen)
12:15-13:15 Lunch
13:15-14:30 The power of storytelling including IMRAD. ( Liv Gish)
14:30-15:15 Coffee & tea break and time for a walk/Check-in
15:15-16:15 Writing or structuring your own text based on the storytelling exercise (Mirjam & Liv)
16:15-16:30 Short break
16:30-17:30 Rhetorical reading – what is a good text? Including group exercise (Mirjam)
17:30-18:30 Time to relax, check email, socialize or take another walk
18:30-20:00 Dinner
20:00- Socializing (events organized by ITU PhD students? If you want to be in organizing, please contact Kasper Støy/PhD support.
Day 2 – Friday 21 March 21, 2025
08:00-09:00 Breakfast & check-out
09:00-10:15 Journal analysis; Presentation and individual exercise or writing on own text (Liv Gish)
10:15-10:30 Coffee & tea break
10:30-12:15 Peer-feedback, asking for and giving feedback in small groups (Liv & Mirjam)
12:15-13:15 Lunch
13:15-14:45 Tools to support text revision and time for last writing or revision of own text (Liv Gish)
14:45-15:00 Coffee & tea
15:15-16:00 Bus travel to the ITU
If you have any questions, please let me know
Prerequisites:
To attend, you must be a PhD student enrolled at the IT University
Exam:
1 page reflection note on the topic of the symposium ‘The craft of writing and preparing for publication’ with emphasis on aspects you find relevant for your work and how they are relevant. The reflection note is approved by Kasper Støy and must be submitted to him (a deadline will be updated).
Credits:
2 ECTS for full attendance
Amount of hours the student is expected to use on the course
Participation: hours 28 (1 + ½ day at Comwell Holte + written exam)
Preparation: hours 28 (readings + preparation (see the exercise ‘Preparation for the symposium´))
Participants:
Mirjam Godskesen (teacher)
Liv Gish (teacher)
Employees of the ITU's PhD support
Kasper Støy (Head of PhD school)
ITU researcher