The call for FinEd’s annual academic writing workshop is opening on Monday 3 March 2025.
What? The workshop focuses on the processes of academic and scientific writing. Activities will include individual and group work, mentor and peer feedback on participants’ texts, and interesting keynote speeches. Furthermore, the workshop offers early career researchers an opportunity for networking, peer support, and making new friends. FinEd will pay the expenses of successful applicants (accommodation and meals; remuneration of travel within Finland).
When and where? The workshop will be held at Hanaholmen Conference Hotel in Espoo, from Monday 11 – Tuesday 12 August 2025.
For whom? We invite applications from doctoral researchers regardless of paradigm, writing either article-based or monograph thesis on an educational-sciences topic at FinEd member universities. However, please note that while we welcome applicants at all stages of the PhD process, to get the most out of the workshop, you should have a textual part of your thesis (e.g., a section of an article, or chapter of your monograph/summary) to work on at the workshop. Participants will be asked to submit this for mentor comments before the workshop.
How to apply? Please fill in the application form at https://link.webropol.com/s/FinEdworkshop2025 and include a motivation letter of max. 500 words. The application period is from 3 – 21 March 2025.
Based on the applications, max. 25 participants will be chosen by a selection committee comprising five FinEd steering group members, with a view to facilitating diversity (i.e., aiming for equal representation of FinEd member universities, researchers from different paradigms and at different stages of the PhD process), and with specific weight given to the motivation letter. Our selection committee will make the decisions in the first week of April, and successful applicants will be informed about the choice by mid-April.
If you have any questions, please do not hesitate to contact FinEd coordinator Anna Rawlings (anna.rawlings@uef.fi). We look forward to receiving your applications, and hope to see you in August!
