Digital methods and geographies

27 et 28 mai 2021

Carlo INVERARDI-FERRI

Dr. Carlo Inverardi-Ferri (MA), Dr. Jevgeniy Bluwstein (MA), Romain Valadaud (PhD Candidate) tous Unit of Geography, Department of Geosciences, University of Fribourg

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This workshop responds to the current pandemic by offering PhD students an opportunity to reflect on how the pandemic has impacted their research project and how they can adapt to it in ways that enable to continue doing research. The workshop will provide space to know and apply digital methods in social research, and familiarise with digital geographies. Senior scholars working with digital methods and/or digital geographies will share their knowledge and experience in keynotes and activities with students. Individual and group activities will enable students to reflect on and apply insights from the keynotes. The workshop's final objective is to enable students to rethink their research projects and methodologies to continue research in pandemic conditions.

This workshop is conducted in English.

The workshop is organized fully online over two days and involves student presentations, keynotes, discussions and practical activities.

Day 1

Morning

9:00-9:30 Introduction to the workshop and presentation of the participants and speakers

9:30-10:00 Short student presentations: how did the pandemic impact my Phd research project?

10:15-10:45 1.Keynote: Geographies of digital I: The digital turn

11:00-11:30 2.Keynote: Geographies of digital II: Spaces, actors, processes

11:45-12:15 Joint discussion

Afternoon

13:30-14:30 1. Activity: How do we design a research topics that study spaces in/of the digital? Specify how these spaces can be accessed (group work)

14:45-15:30 Groups present their findings

16:00-17:00 Documentary/movie screening?

Day 2

Morning

9:00-9:30 3.Keynote: Digital methods I

9:30-10:00 4.Keynote: Digital methods II

10:15-11:00 Joint discussion

11:00-12:00 2.Activity: explore a digital space online (individual work)

12:15-13:00 Share your findings from 2nd activity with others, joint discussion

Afternoon

14:00-15:00 3.Activity: Rethink your phd project through a detailed digital methodology (individual work)

15-16:00 Present your plan and receive feedback

Atelier à distance (MS Teams)

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