Early Career Workshop

Workshop Description

The purpose of the ICQE Early Career Workshop is to provide a high-quality learning and networking opportunity for early career researchers doing work related to quantitative ethnography. During the workshop, participants will share their research with peers and an international panel of faculty serving as mentors. Participants will engage in collaborative inquiry and scholarly discourse to develop their research, to advance their understanding of the field, and to gain insights into how to build a professional career using quantitative ethnography. The Early Career Workshop is open to scholars within 5 years of completing their PhD. The goal of this workshop is to promote intellectual exchange, provide mentoring and support for junior researchers, build capacity for diverse leadership and participation in the QE community, and facilitate collaboration across disciplines and geographic contexts.

Objectives and Design

Participation in the Early Career Workshop will support scholars in:

• Defining innovative and productive programs of research that lead toward an impactful record of inquiry;
• Focusing learning on high-yield professional activities such as grant-writing, peer editing, and building a publishing trajectory;
• Supporting strong data analysis skills and evidence-based arguments in their research projects;
• Addressing issues of using cutting-edge methods in scholarship; and
• Expanding the professional networks of workshop participants through interactions with other early career scholars, mentors, and journal editors

Who Should Apply

The ECW is open to scholars who completed their PhD no more than five years before the time of application submission. Scholars with prior involvement in quantitative ethnographic research are encouraged to apply, but all applications will be considered. Participation is open to early career researchers in universities, non-profit organizations, museums, and other learning-oriented organizations.

How to Apply

Each proposal should contain the following within one document in the following order, and be submitted through the ICQE 2022 Conference System.

1. A cover sheet with your name, title of your main research project, your institution, your personal webpage, your email address, and your mailing address.
2. A 1-page personal statement that includes discussion of the following topics (note that these do not necessarily need to be used as headings, as long as the topics are addressed in the narrative).
1. your research and/or specialization
2. current status of your career
3. your career objectives
4. why you want to participate in the early career workshop
5. Preliminary or expected findings;
6. what specific issues or challenges with your research and career you would like to explore further in the workshop
3. A 2-page summary of your research, including tables, figures and references formatted using the Proceedings template. The summary should be written in English and include the following:
   1. Abstract;
   2. Goals of the research;
   3. Background of the project;
   4. Methodology;
   5. Preliminary or expected findings;
   6. Expected contributions.
4. A two-page CV.

Participants for the Early Career Workshop will be selected based on the academic quality of their proposal, the relevance and potential contribution to the researcher and to the field of quantitative ethnography, and their anticipated contribution to the workshop goals. The proposals will be reviewed by at least two international experts in the field. Emphasis will be placed on forming diverse groups of participants whose research career is at a stage that can best benefit from the workshop and who reflect individual excellence, interesting projects, and motivation while at the same time contributing to the workshop objectives and the aggregate diversity of the cohort.

Please submit the cover page, 1-page personal statement, 2-page summary, and CV as a single file in DOCX and PDF format named as follows: “Firstname_Lastname_ECWproposal”. The application should be submitted through the ICQE 2022 Conference System.

Please all questions to icqeconf@gmail.com.

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