Scottish Programme of Advanced Training for Social Anthropology PhD Students, STAR 1 Pre-Fieldwork training, a four-day residential event at The Burn in Angus.
This residential training will take place on 18 – 22 April 2022. It integrates pre-fieldwork graduate students, post-fieldwork graduate students, and faculty, in an ambitious and interactive learning environment. Given that PhD students receive a range of prescribed teaching, the STAR 1 programme has been designed specifically to respond to the perceived needs of pre-fieldwork students – in direct interaction with those who are writing up in their final year and key members of staff. As such the outcomes of the programme cannot all be prescribed in advance. However, one of the key aims and outcomes is to build a sense of cohesion between and amongst the full range of Scottish Social Anthropology students. It thus fundamentally feeds into the entire PhD process, and is essential for the later years of the PhD programme. In addition, as an activity it draws the St Andrews and Edinburgh pathways together (and includes Aberdeen) and has become the cornerstone of our joint planning and further integration. In response to student feedback asking that we add more guidance on taking care of oneself in the field, in the last two years we have added workshops on this topic, which have been very well received.
Please note, this event is only suitable for students on the Social Anthropology pathway.