STAR2 is a residential training event for post-fieldwork writing up PhD students in Social Anthropology in Scotland that combines master classes focused on writing up PhD research projects with sessions preparing PhD students for careers in anthropology within and beyond the academy. All STAR2 sessions have been specifically designed for post-fieldwork writing-up students of social anthropology. Dr Aimee Joyce and Dr Adam Reed (St Andrews), Prof Lotte Hoek & Dr Alejandro Escalante (Edinburgh), and Dr Rachel Smith (Aberdeen) will attend for the full 4 days.
Master Classes in PhD writing over 3 days will be given by three distinguished international/ rest of UK based social anthropologists Prof Kate Brown [MIT], Dr Carolina Alonso Bejarano [Warwick] & Dr Paolo Heywood [Durham] . These master classes provide writing-up PhD students with the opportunity to conceptualise and rethink their ongoing research work and writing practice with a recognized scholar of the discipline and alongside peers from the three departments. These distinguished anthropologists also present their own research and writing trajectories to the students as a way of elucidating how their own training and research has shaped their careers. Alongside the central strand of master classes, students will attend single sessions on various aspects of academic career training.
These include sessions on publishing and writing for academic and non-academic audiences; impact and knowledge exchange; viva preparation; practice in conference panel organization and abstract writing, responding to peer review and writing grant proposals. There will also be a dedicated session on anthropological careers outside of the academy. The residential nature of this training event allows various forms of mentoring to take place during the course of the event.
STAR events are open to anthropology students of different kinds – including medical anthropology. One main purpose is to bring together students from the three Scottish departments of anthropology and to facilitate and build on their knowledge synergies. We also invite students from the Department of Sociology at the University of Glasgow whose work has an anthropological focus.