[Previous message][Next message][Back to index]
[ecrea] SuSo 2017: Call for Participants - European Media and Communication Doctoral Summer School
Wed Feb 15 21:44:09 GMT 2017
ECREA Summer School 2017: Call for Participants
We are happy to invite you to participate in the ECREA European Media
and Communication Doctoral Summer School 2017 that will take place at
Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, Milan, Italy, from July 24 to
August 4, 2016 (12 days).
THE FOCUS
The ECREA European Media and Communication Doctoral Summer School 2017
brings together members of the European research community to this
summer school in order to debate contemporary issues in media,
communication and cultural studies. The main emphasis of this summer
school is not on a particular theme, but on providing structural and
individuated PhD- support for young European scholars, through a variety
of working forms, including feedback seminars, workshops, and lectures.
The summer school aims to provide a supportive international setting
where doctoral students can present their ongoing work, receive feedback
on their PhD- projects from international experts and meet students and
academics from other countries, establishing valuable contacts for the
future.
International director: Nico Carpentier
Programme director: Fausto Colombo
Summer School coordinators: Simone Tosoni, Maria Francesca Murru, Laura Peja
HOW TO APPLY
There are two options to attend the Summer School:
For students who have been selected by the members of the Summer School
consortium
(http://ecreasummerschool.org/institutional-coordinators.html), the
summer school will provide:
-accommodation for the whole duration of the summer school, including
breakfast
-welcome and farewell dinner
-WiFi access at the summer school venue
-summer school materials (including 2 books)
-coffee during the breaks
-lunch from Mondays to Fridays
-partial reimbursement of travel expenses (between 0 and 1999 KM:
maximum 275 EUR per participant; 2000 and more KM: maximum 360 EUR per
participant)
Payment of a registration fee of 560 Euros is required for consortium
participants.
For all the other students, the summer school will provide:
-accommodation for the whole duration of the summer
school, including breakfast
-welcome and farewell dinner
-WiFi at the summer school venue
-summer school materials (including 2 books)
-coffee in the breaks
-lunch from Mondays to Fridays
Payment of a registration fee of 660 Euros is required for
non-consortium participants.
The total number of students will be limited to 44, half of them
selected by the consortium members.
The working language of the summer school will be English; therefore, a
sufficient understanding and ability to express oneself in this language
is required.
CREDITS
The Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore (Faculty of Political and
Social Sciences) acknowledges the Summer School activities with 10 ECTS
for the participation in the full programme (including the supplementary
activities). Furthermore, six of the best students’ presentations and
all abstracts of student projects will be published in the Summer School
Book.
DEADLINES
The deadline for applications for the summer school is April 1, 2017.
Applicants from consortium universities and from affiliated partners of
the summer school must have their application approved by their
institutional coordinators before submitting their application to the
summer school. Also the applications from consortium university
applicants must be received by the summer school before April 1, 2017.
All applicants will be informed about the selection of participants
before the end of April.
ECREA GRANTS
ECREA will be awarding two grants for participation at the Summer
School. More information on the grants will be available at the ECREA
website (http://www.ecrea.eu) after 20 February 2017. This grant
programme will be managed by ECREA and not by the summer school organisers.
+++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
Apply for the Summer School
APPLICATION PROCEDURE
Stage One
When applying, each interested student is expected to fill out the
application form on the Summer School website. Prior registration on the
website is necessary (http://ecreasummerschool.org/registration.html).
Uncompleted applications will not be eligible for the selection process.
Applications can only be submitted via this website.
The application form includes:
1. a 400 words abstract of the PhD project
2. a time table of the PhD project, indicating the present status of the
project
3. a short CV according to the provided forms.
The deadline for submitting the application is April 1, 2017, 23:59
hours (UTC +1). Notifications of acceptance will be sent before the end
of April.
Stage Two
In second phase, students whose abstracts are accepted will be expected
to fulfil the following requirements:
1. To write 10-page (3000 words) paper on their PhD project as a whole
and to upload it on the website. The 10-page paper should be a report of
the student’s ongoing doctoral research and not a conventional
conference paper or a report of findings. Rather, it is expected that
the student will briefly present the focus of the research and then take
up aspects of the research process: methodology, theory and practical
issues on which he/she would like to receive feedback (deadline: May 28).
2. To write a set of questions (maximum 1 page) with questions or
problems that students would like to be discussed during the workshops.
This one page needs to be part of the same Word/PDF file that also
contains the 10-page paper (deadline: May 28).
3. Based on the abstracts and titles of other student papers, everyone
is expected to choose up to 3 papers they would be interested in being a
respondent (deadline: June 15; further details will be provided after
selection).
4. Additional registration at the Università Cattolica website and
payment of the registration fee (deadline: 1 June; further details will
be provided after selection).
5. At the start of the Summer School, students have to have a 10-minute
seminar presentation ready, covering the main points of their work. Each
student is also expected to actively participate in the discussions of
their own and other people’s work. In order to ensure maximum benefits
of the seminars, everyone will have to read all other participants'
papers before the Summer School begins.
SELECTION PROCESS AND CRITERIA
In respect of the selection of doctoral students from consortium
universities, each one has appointed a summer school coordinator
(http://ecreasummerschool.org/institutional- coordinators.html). The
summer school coordinators are responsible for promoting the summer
school within the consortium partner institution and to other academic
institutions in their country. Consortium partner universities and
departments are well-established and of best reputation in the field of
media and communication, and have leading scholars in their faculties
(see a list of previous lecturers
http://ecreasummerschool.org/past-lecturers.html). All participating
institutions of the summer school have experience in local, national and
international cooperation. The departments have institutional contacts
with higher education institutions within their own country and abroad,
and well-established doctoral programmes. The consortium partner
institutions and their summer school coordinators are fully autonomous
in selecting their PhD student(s).
The selection of doctoral students from other institutions are based on
a review process organised by the executive committee of the summer
school. This process is open to all PhD students (including students
from the consortium universities not selected by their institutional
coordinators). As already specified, each candidate has to submit
electronically a) a 400-words proposal of his/her PhD project, b) a time
table of the PhD project, indicating the present status of the project,
and c) a CV (work and study history). This application will be subjected
to a double blind peer review, coordinated by the summer school local
organisers. Based on this review, the executive committee of the summer
school will select the participants.
For both pathways, the selection criteria are identical:
• quality of the PhD project, assessed in relation to its i) theoretical
approach, ii) methodological standards and iii) potential for innovation;
• the progression of the PhD project (projects in a “middle phase” are
strongly preferred);
• the relevance of the aims and objectives of the PhD project within
communication and media studies.
CONTACTS
For accommodation, logistic and financial issues: (elisa.ballerini /at/ unicatt.it)
For issues related to the programme: (laura.peja /at/ unicatt.it)
For issues related to the website: (simone.tosoni /at/ unicatt.it)
--
-------------------------------------------------------------------------
Nico Carpentier
-----------------------------------------------------------------------
Uppsala University
Department of Informatics and Media
Kyrkogårdsgatan 10
753 13 Uppsala
Sweden
-----------------------------------------------------------------------
Vrije Universiteit Brussel (VUB) - Free University of Brussels
&
Charles University in Prague
-----------------------------------------------------------------------
New book (open access):
Politics, Civil Society and Participation: Media and Communications in a
Transforming Environment
http://www.researchingcommunication.eu/
----------------------------
Media and participation: A site of ideological-democratic struggle
NOW AVAILABLE IN OPEN ACCESS:
https://oapen.org/search?identifier=606390
-----------------------------------------------------------------------
DESIRE
Centre for the study of Democracy, Signification and Resistance
http://researchcentredesire.eu/
----------------------------
International Association for Media and Communication Research
http://www.iamcr.org/
----------------------------
ECREA mailing list
http://commlist.org/
----------------------------
European Media and Communication Doctoral Summer School
http://www.comsummerschool.org/
----------------------------
E-mail (UUppsala): (nico.carpentier /at/ im.uu.se)
E-mail (VUBrussels): (nico.carpentier /at/ vub.ac.be)
T (UUppsala): +46 (0)18 471 6341
Room (UUppsala): Ekonomikum building E329
Web: http://nicocarpentier.net/
-----------------------------------------------------------------------
---------------
The COMMLIST
---------------
This mailing list is a free service offered by Nico Carpentier. Please
use it responsibly and wisely.
--
To subscribe or unsubscribe, please visit http://commlist.org/
--
Before sending a posting request, please always read the guidelines at
http://commlist.org/
--
To contact the mailing list manager:
Email: (nico.carpentier /at/ vub.ac.be)
URL: http://nicocarpentier.net
---------------
[Previous message][Next message][Back to index]
