[Commlist] Call for Participants - ECREA Summer School 2021

CALL FOR PARTICIPANTS: ECREA MEDIA AND COMMUNICATION DOCTORAL 
SUMMER SCHOOL 2021

We are happy to invite you to participate in the ECREA European Media 
and Communication Doctoral Summer School 2021 that will take place 
at the University of Cádiz, Cádiz, Spain, mainly from 20-24 September 
2021 (with activities before and after these dates). Because of the 
pandemic situation, it is impossible to plan a physical meeting, so this 
Summer School will be an online event.

THE FOCUS

The ECREA European Media and Communication Doctoral Summer School 2021 
brings together members of the European research community in order to 
debate contemporary issues in media, communication and cultural studies. 
The main emphasis of this summer school is 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. Although it is usually a physical event, it 
will be ensured that the spirit and the usual activities of the Summer 
School are not affected, so that it continues to be a very valuable 
experience for the participants.

GENERAL INFORMATION

The summer school is open to the full variety of academic work in the 
broad field of communication and media studies. All PhD projects within 
the field of communication and media studies are welcomed.

The working language of the summer school will be English; therefore a 
sufficient understanding and ability to express oneself in this language 
is expected.

Registration fee at the summer school will be:

• 60 Euros for the ECREA members and
• 75 Euros for the non-members of ECREA.

The program of the summer school will include:

• Live event: the online Summer school itself will take place on 20-24 
September. You will receive feedback to your project, lectures, round 
tables, Q&As and other synchronous/live activities.
• Workshops and other activities: you will be invited to participate in 
several online workshops during 27 September – 1 October and 
following weeks.
• Social program: although it is impossible to get the feeling of 
closeness of a physical event, we will ensure social networking and 
leisure activities related to the event.

ADDITIONAL INFORMATION

The University of Cádiz will provide certificates of attendance to all 
those who participate during the full program. The organizers of the 
summer school are also seeking an opportunity to publish selected 
research papers based on the PhD projects presented in the summer school 
in an international peer reviewed journal on the field or as chapters in 
an edited book with a reference publisher on the field. The total number 
of students will be limited to 48. Participants are expected to 
participate in the program for its whole duration.

GRANTS

ECREA will be awarding 30 grants for participation at the Summer School 
for students who are unable to otherwise raise registration fee. 
More information on the grants will be available at the ECREA WEBSITE 
(https://ecrea.eu/page-18213 <https://ecrea.eu/page-18213>) after March 
1. There is a separate application and selection procedure in order to 
apply for these grants.

APPLICATION PROCEDURE

Stage One

When applying, each interested student is expected fill out a form on 
the ECREA website (https://ecrea.eu/event-4184141). This application 
form will include:

1. a short bio (300 words) according to the provided forms.
2. a 500 word abstract of the PhD project.

The deadline for submitting the application is March 23, 
2021. Notification of acceptance will be sent during the last week of 
April 2021.

Stage Two

Students whose abstracts are accepted will be expected to provide the 
following documents and information in the second phase:

• A 10-page (3000 words) paper on their PhD project as a whole. 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: methodological, theoretical and practical issues on 
which he/she would like to receive feedback. Deadline: 20 August.
• A set of questions (maximum 1 page) with questions or problems that 
students would like to be discussed during the workshops, round tables 
and Q &A sessions. This one page needs to be part of the same Word/PDF 
file that also contains the 10-page paper. Deadline: 20 August.
• By the start of the Summer School, each student has to prepare a 
10-minute seminar presentation 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, specially those of whom he/she is 
a respondent. In order to ensure maximum benefits of the seminars, 
everyone will have to read other participants papers before the Summer 
School begins.

DEADLINE

The deadline for applications for the Summer School is March 23, 2021 
(midnight CET).

CONTACTS

For issues related to the programme: (david.selva /at/ uca.es) 
<mailto:(david.selva /at/ uca.es)>

For issues related to the application and registration: (office /at/ ecrea.eu) 
<mailto:(office /at/ ecrea.eu)>

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