Network of Environmental Social Scientists
Environmental Social Science Workshop for PhDs and ECRs
The Network of Environmental Social Scientists is pleased to host a workshop for PhD students and early career researchers (ECR) working in the space of the environmental social sciences.
Date and time: Wednesday 28th September 2016; 2pm – 5pm, followed by pizza.
Location: Collaborative room 329, Steele (building 03), UQ St Lucia.
The aim of the workshop is to strengthen collaborative networks across Schools and Institutes at the University, and to provide a platform for skills and knowledge sharing about undertaking social science research about environmental issues.
We invite all interested PhDs and ECRs (no more than 5 years post-PhD), who are conducting social science research about the environment, to submit an expression of interest to attend by the 9th September 2016.
Submit expression of interest here
Participants will be required to provide, ahead of the workshop, a one slide PowerPoint presentation which showcases their research in terms of: social theories, methods, geographical interest, and environmental context. Participants will also be asked to consider one key challenge they have encountered, and one key lesson they have learned, from their experience with environmental social science.
Workshop overview:
- Introduction & welcome
- PhD and ECR “speed dating”
- Rapid research presentations
- Discussion: challenges and lessons of environmental social science
- Next directions & closing
- Pizza
Contacts: Bec Colvin (r.colvin2@uq.edu.au) & Cristina Romero (c.romero@uq.edu.au)
