Rivers of experience: a creative workshop for PhD students
21st Jul 2020 10:00am-12:00pm
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Making progress through a doctoral degree can be challenging and uncertain at the best of times. In the context of the Covid-19 pandemic, many doctoral researchers now face additional challenges and disruption to their research projects. This online workshop has been developed to offer you a moment to pause and reflect on your own unique situation. Based on research into the factors that enable doctoral completions, this workshop will help you to take stock of your doctoral journey so far, consolidate your own personal dilemmas, and to think about what is within your control.
The workshop centres on peer learning and the use of a creative, yet simple, method from constructivist research, known as a ‘river of experience’, to produce a visual outline of your own doctoral experience. This will be completed during the workshop and discussed to establish common themes and individual differences of perspective. This session will enable you, as doctoral researchers, to reflect on your own progress and to think about how you might keep a rhythm of work going
This online workshop is based on Shane Dowel’s previous presentation at the University of Surrey Techne conference and has been developed to offer students a creative means to pause and reflect on their own unique situations in light of changing circumstances.