[Futuregen] Ideas on PhD workshop

[rodrigues at euro.centre.org]

Dear all,

On the issue of the PhD workshop I would also like to open the 
discussion on its target audience, or rather, recruitment. We left this 
open in the proposal stage.

We could have this as an open workshop: we issue a call for participants 
and then select a few. The issue here is how to make sure we have enough 
interested people and how to select them. I’m not sure we will charge a 
nominal fee (this sometimes helps to screen those really interested) or 
we would ask for a CV and perhaps a 2-3 page outline of the research 
they are carrying out and how gender and intersectionality in relation 
to health and care fit into that. Again, this could help us screen 
participants and make sure we are not swamped with applications we would 
need to read and decide upon.

We could also have this per invitation only, where we select and invite 
PhD students that could be interested in this. The issues here are: to 
have a sufficient number of people in mind and willing to participate 
and making sure we invite people outside our networks.

I would be happy to combine the two approaches, but I think it is very 
important to have at least the possibility of having others 
participating (i.e. to have a call for participants) and to be selective 
on them.

It’s clear we cannot cover accommodation and travel, but could you check 
about food (I think that is budgeted in your budgets)? Again, we could 
charge a small attendance fee (e.g. 100 EUR), but as we are not covering 
other costs, I’m not too sure about this.
In a related issue, we should also tentatively aim for a workshop 
duration. Perhaps 3 days, if we want to give space for some 
presentations/exercises on our side (do we?) and for small 
presentations, individual feedback and discussion from our side.


Again, the PhD workshop is something we can perhaps already start to 
discuss via e-mail.

Best wishes,
Ricardo


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Ricardo Rodrigues, PhD, MSc
Deputy Director
Head of Health and Care Unit
European Centre for Social Welfare Policy and Research
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