One-day Writing Workshop and Evening Panel Discussion

This writing workshop will bring together early career researchers (ECRs) (including PhD students) working on displacement issues from the fields of social and political sciences and law with peers from the University of London, University of Edinburgh, and editors from the Refugee Survey Quarterly.

The event is an excellent opportunity for ECRs to obtain constructive feedback on draft writing samples from peers and academic journal editors in a friendly space. There will also be presentations on how to publish and promote academic work within displacement related fields.

The workshop will focus on the theme of Conceptualising Displacement, Protection, and Solutions. Proposals/papers are welcomed from ECRs looking at how we understand displacement, forms of protections found at different levels of analysis (including global and ground-level approaches), and formal and informal solutions to displacement.

Selected participants will be expected to submit a draft academic article (6,000 to 8,000 words) in advance of the workshop for discussion and feedback from workshop participants. Each participant will also be required to give constructive feedback on other attendees’ submissions.

On the evening of the writing workshop, there will be a book launch for Refugee Reception in Southern Africa and panel discussion on the workshops themes, with  Prof Loren Landau, Dr Lucy Hovil, Dr Helidah Ogude, Dr Georgia Cole, and Dr Nicholas Maple. This evening event will be open to the public and recorded.