Call for applications: IMISCOE PhD Summer School 2025
For the 2025 edition of the IMISCOE PhD school, we aim at training PhD candidates and early career researchers affiliated at institutions around the world to develop visual and sensory methodologies in migration research. We use the term “methodology” as we believe that visual and sensory projects ought to be embedded in a broader research project. Concretely, that means that participants will be encouraged to critically assess the theoretical, empirical, and ethical implications of their methodological choices.
In the training programme, we will focus on the use of four visual media to research the multisensory experiences of migration scholars and of the ones who have experienced migration, but also migration processes and policies. Those media are photography, film, cartography, and collaborative methods. In that sense, we propose establishing conceptual links between the intellectual and the sensorial, by designing research methodologies that do not omit the data coming from the multisensory experiences of doing visual research. The training also provides hands-on activities and good practices helping to rethink our research questions; get acquainted with the literature; combine visual methodologies with other modes of data collection – qualitative interviews, discussion groups, walk-alongs, observations, etc; expand our analytical toolbox; and potentially create visual and sensory outputs for dissemination.
Inter- and transdisciplinary in its focus, this IMISCOE PhD school channels the methodological knowledge developed within disciplines such as geography, anthropology, sociology, political science, and gender, sexuality and women’s study into a practical methodological approach, with a wide range of useful research tools adapted to the analysis of migration experiences, processes and policies. The aim is to provide a full package of knowledge on research planning using visual and sensory methods, including a critical analysis of the epistemological foundations of research methodology, the ontological status of produced and existing images, ethical manifesto, techniques for disseminating research conclusions and generating impact, and the selection of appropriate tools for collecting data.
How to apply?
To apply, we kindly ask you to fill in this form.
Please prepare in advance:
- A 500-word-summary of your visual and/or multisensory work
- An explanation of your work relates with the proposed event
- A link to an online CV (it can be uploaded to the cloud and shared with us)
- In the form, we will also ask you to indicate in which working group you would like to participate and why
- Last, if you have financial requirements, you should indicate it in the form.
In case of doubts: imiscoephdschool2025@igot.ulisboa.pt
Maximum number of participants: 24
Schedule
The call for participation closes on December 20th 2024.
The decisions regarding acceptance will be communicated to the participants in February 2025.
More information: https://www.imiscoe.org/index.php?option=com_civicrm&task=civicrm/mailing/url&u=3367&qid=652343