Hi PhD students!
We need short statements from you about the writing retreats (both the recent one from Varberg and the one from last year in Örebro). Anna will use these statements in a meeting with the Swedish Library Association, who are funding our retreats. We have funding for next year, and to be able to ask for more funding we have to demonstrate their usefulness.
Please send us statements at the latest December 1st (this Friday), they don’t have to be long!
All the best,
Mauritza and Camilla
your new PhD representatives in the board for ReSource
Hi everyone!
I'm sorry! I've been away and then sick since the retreat but have finally cleaned up the notes from the doctoral meeting in Varberg. I have tried to add clarifying information for you that where not there but let me know if things are hard to understand. Also, for you who where at the meeting, pleace let me know if I misrepresented something or missed something important!
I need any feedback ASAP unfortunately, since the next steering group meeting is in only three days (the 23rd) and our collective feedback from the meeting will be presented then.
Med vänliga hälsningar
Zanna
Zanna Friberg
PhD Student
Department of ALM | Institutionen för ABM
Uppsala University | Uppsala universitet
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Hej allihop!
The writing retreat is coming up soon and as before we will have a doctoral student meeting where we have the opportunity to discuss issues and ideas in regards to us as a national group of doctoral students.
In previous meetings we have discussed that it would be good to be able to submit things to an agenda for the meeting in advance, please reply to this email or email me privately if you want me to add something to the agenda. So far I have only two points of discussion for the meeting:
1. Me informing you about what's been going on in the steering group for the national collaboration (where I represent us)
2. Electing a person to replace me as a representative to the steering group (see below for some additional info about this)
Election of doctoral representative to the steering group
As discussed in the meeting this past autumn, I´ve been on the board for more than a year now and need to step down to focus on other things. Note that this is a representative position from the doctoral students that are not in the Resource Doctoral School. You guys in Resource will have a representative amongst yourselves in accordance with the stipulations of the grant from Vetenskapsrådet.
Being a representative to steering board is a good opportunity to get a sense of the national research environment in BOI, it is a good experience to put on your resumé. The steering board meets on zoom about once per term but it could be a bit more if things come up. It has been more meetings this years since we first worked on the application for the Resource Doctoral School and then collaborated around the recruitment of the Resource doctoral students.
Last time we agreed that if no one volunteered, we would rotate the responsibility of choosing a representative between the different departments. The rotating schedule used for hosting the annual workshop is 1) Borås, 2) Uppsala, 3) Umeå, 4) Lund and I would suggest we use the same one. That would mean that Umeå is next, but since there is not that many doctoral students in Umeå, maybe we could do Umeå and Lund?
I'm not sure how to go about electing someone but please think about if you are interested in the position in preparation for the meeting (especially if you are a doctoral student in Umeå or Lund). If you are interested but will not be at the meeting please let me know.
Looking forward to seeing you again soon
Best wishes
Zanna
Zanna Friberg
PhD Student
Department of ALM | Institutionen för ABM
Uppsala University | Uppsala universitet
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Hi!
Here is the second of two related emails, have a look at the first one for some context ☺
/Zanna
* Are you a student (Bachelor, Master or Doctoral) of Information Science or a related field, based in Europe?
* Do you want to expand your network, and gain experience for your CV and development plans?
* Read on! Thanks to an anonymous donor ASIS&T European Chapter can give away up to 11 free annual student memberships for ASIS&T (the Association for Information Science and Technology https://www.asist.org/). Submit your application by 31 May 2023 (only a few short questions). The only additional condition for application is that you must not be, nor have been, an ASIS&T member.
What you receive
This sponsorship is via the ASIS&T European Chapter https://www.asist.org/chapters/europe/. If you are the happy recipient of one of these memberships, you get all the ASIS&T benefits https://www.asist.org/membership/categories-and-benefits-of-membership/
PLUS you will get all the advantages of belonging to the ASIS&T European Chapter and European Student Chapter.
* You get access to member-only events e.g. "Coffee with the author", seminars - see https://www.asist.org/chapters/europe/events/ These are normally free and online, so you can join in wherever you are based, with the chance to engage with international experts in the field. In the European Chapter we always aim to be friendly and inclusive, and these are a chance to find out about the field and make new friends.
* You have your own Student Chapter, led by its enthusiastic and friendly committee, with an opportunity to have a say in what activities take place.
* Discover like-minded young researchers in your area of study.
What we will ask of you
All we ask in exchange is a small contribution to the life of the Chapter during the year. There are a range of ways to contribute, and you can choose which you prefer, for example
* A short report e.g. on a conference or a publication - for the Chapter newsletter https://www.asist.org/chapters/europe/publications/ Links to an external site.<https://www.asist.org/chapters/europe/publications/>
* Assisting in organising a Chapter event
* Talking about your studies or research, together with other students, in a webinar
* Development of your leadership skills through participation at Chapter meetings
* Developing ideas for events and activities to help promote the Chapter
How you apply
Fill in this form by 31 May 2023: https://forms.gle/zFCfnqsJS6vYNFqJ6 - as you will see it is very short! On 1 June we will make a random selection of applicants and then notify you as to whether you have been successful.
Questions? Email Sophie Rutter (European Chapter Chair) s.rutter(a)sheffield.ac.uk or Faye Carrie (European Student Chapter past Chair) faye.carrie(a)ucdconnect.ie
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Hej!
Here comes the first of two forwarded messages regarding the Association for Information Science & Technology (ASIS&T). This first forwarded message is an invitation to participate in the session ThesisIn3 at the ASIS&T EU Information Science Trends Conference in June, the session is held on zoom. The second email (that I will send right after this one), is information about an opportunity to get a free annual ASIS&T EU membership, it´s a call for applications for 11 free student memberships with a submission deadline 31th of May.
Hope you're all getting along with your work and have some spring feeling!
Med vänliga hälsningar
Zanna
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Hi all,
As part of the Information Science Trends Conference that CAPTURE & the ASIS&T EU chapter hosts June 20th-21st, we have a session, in collaboration with the iSchools Doctoral Seminar, called ThesisIn3 where students can present their thesis or ongoing work in 3 minutes
https://www.asist.org/2023/04/27/ti3cfp2023/
Students are defined as BA/BSc, MA/MSc, or PhD students within Information Science (including related areas such as Library Science, Archival Science, Data Science, Information Management, Digital Humanities and Human Computer Interaction).
This event is intended to encourage wider student participation in the Information Science field in a fun and inclusive space, allowing students to develop both their confidence and their presentation skills, and to offer their own insights and constructive feedback to their peers.
This event will be run virtually via Zoom to ensure as many students as possible can attend.
Looking forward to see you there!
Kind regards,
Lisa Andersson, MLIS, Ph.D.
- Researcher CAPTURE<https://www.abm.uu.se/research/Ongoing+Research+Projects/capture/>, Dept. of ALM<https://www.abm.uu.se/>, Uppsala University
- Deputy Editor-in-Chief Nordic Journal of Library and Information Studies 2023
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Hej!
Below is my cleaned up notes from the doctoral meeting, which I just named spring doctoral meeting... please have a look if you have time. If no one objects during the first couple of days next week I will forward these points to Anna and the rest of the steering board on Wednesday.
For those not present at the meeting, please feel free to ask me for clarification of things in the notes if needed.
For the rest of you, thank you for your time at the meeting, it was great seeing you!
Med vänliga hälsningar
Zanna
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Spring doctoral meeting 2023-04-20
The doctoral representative(s)
Zanna will put together a description of the position and make sure each department will compensate it. We would like to circulate the responsibility yearly. Interested parties, not from Uppsala, can contact Zanna and will take it from there this year. In the future, we will ask the doctoral students at the department that is up to decide amongst themselves who will be the representative.
Desk exchange
Zanna will check if it would be possible for one PhD student at each location to get compensation for pulling together some information about possible resources to use to finance and plan a desk exchange.
Workshop
In general, it is brilliant to see other people's work, different subjects, and progression levels. It is also so nice to get to see people in person. Somehow, even though it was still a lunch-to-lunch, it did not feel as packed as last year.
However, we would still like to suggest a longer workshop of 2 days. To allow for:
- Two, rather than three or four session. We would really like to be able to attend more of the others' session, both to discuss their work and because the feedback others get can be very informative for our own work as well.
- An extension of the doctoral meeting, which we would like to make permanent part of the program, to 1.5 h. We would also like to, collaboratively among us PhD students, set an agenda for the meeting in advance.
We are aware that some senior researcher already are not attending for both days and we discussed the pros and cons of having one day just for PhD students. We also discussed the idea of bringing back PhD commentators on texts but we want to emphasize that we want to keep the opportunity to get feedback from senior researchers.
Additionally there was feedback on some things that could be more clearly communicated next time:
· That it is good to read other PhD students' texts
· Length of texts, format, cover paper etc.
· Communicating changes in the schedule and time table more clearly
Finally, in regards to the workshop we discussed ways to make it easier for us to have a good text for the seminar ready for the deadline. Mainly not leaving the announcement of the deadline too late and maybe even having a set deadline that is more or less the same every year even if the workshop itself is not on exactly the same dates.
Shut up and write / write session
Possibly, it would be more useful if the sessions allowed for more discussion and was more focused on keeping up with each other than just being an opportunity to sit and write. This could be done by 1) making the break in-between sessions longer 2) having shorter writing sessions and more breaks or 3) adding an "open office hour" before or after the whole thing for those who would just like to check in and talk to others about what they are working on at the moment.
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