Preconference Workshop in Barcelona
30/03, 2012 | WORKSHOP
Writing Process Reengineering – Maximizing the discursive impact of research in organizational symbolism
A pre-conference workshop with Thomas Basbøll, at SCOS 2012
Barcelona, Tuesday, July 10, 2012
Thanks to the Sobey PhD (Management) at St. Mary's University for sponsorship of this event.
This one day pre-conference workshop will approach the problem publishing work on organizational symbolism in practical, concrete terms. It will show participants how to manage the writing process and develop the written product. This workshop, which Thomas has run at institutions around Europe in various formats, has been be refitted especially for SCOS. It has has four parts.
A pre-conference workshop with Thomas Basbøll, at SCOS 2012
Barcelona, Tuesday, July 10, 2012
Thanks to the Sobey PhD (Management) at St. Mary's University for sponsorship of this event.
This one day pre-conference workshop will approach the problem publishing work on organizational symbolism in practical, concrete terms. It will show participants how to manage the writing process and develop the written product. This workshop, which Thomas has run at institutions around Europe in various formats, has been be refitted especially for SCOS. It has has four parts.
1. Research as a Second Language. Even researchers who have English as their native language find themselves struggling with the idiom of their chosen field. In this introductory lecture, Thomas will define academic writing both in terms of the knowledge it communicates and the conversation that it informs. He will emphasize that your prose style is a crucial part of your skill set as a scholar and that the challenge is simply to become an articulate member of your scholarly community. This challenge is particularly interesting in our field, of course, where a good deal of “discursive breaching” is called for. As Jo Brewis has put it, there must be a good balance in our work between discourse and duende.
2. Discursive Impact. Your ability to speak and write knowledgeably is conditioned by the "discursive formation" or "disciplinary matrix" in which you participate. Thomas will talk to participants about how the exemplary work that has already been done in their traditions can be used to inform their own efforts to write more effectively. He will also show participants how to use our growing knowledge of citation networks to give their writing the impact it deserves. The examples discussed in this part of the workshop will be selected and analyzed in collaboration with central figures in the SCOS community, including input from the editors of Culture and Organization. But the aim is, of course, to increase our impact beyond this particular community, and this particular journal. The focus will be on the construction of the SCOS ethos (its “dwelling place”) in the broader field of organization studies.
3. Time Management. One of the most common explanations that scholars give for not writing is that there is no time to do so. Thomas dismantles some common myths about the time that is required to write effectively and provides a number of simple tools to help participants secure the time they need to work. These tools can be used by individuals, but can benefit greatly from a supportive collegial environment.
4. Space Management. The "space" for writing must be thought of both physically and conceptually. It is important to structure both the environment in which writing goes on (i.e., that it be sequestered enough from everything else that is going on at the same time) and the manuscript that is being developed. If you begin with a blank page in an open space you are not likely to work effectively. Thomas will show participants how to get organized to avoid this problem with the structure of a typical SCOS-like article in mind (see part 2).
To register, please send an email to thomas@basboell.com with "WPRSCOS" in the subject field.
About Thomas
Born in Denmark and raised in Canada, Thomas is a native speaker of two languages. He holds a bachelor’s degree in philosophy from the University of Calgary, a master’s (cand.mag.) in philosophy from the University of Copenhagen, and a PhD in business administration from the Copenhagen Business School.
After receiving his PhD, he was assistant professor at the Department of Management, Politics and Philosophy of the Copenhagen Business School, where he then served as resident writing consultant from 2007 to 2011.
In addition to running his own consultancy (Thomas Basbøll, Philosophical Investigations) he is external lecturer at the Copenhagen Business School and honorary teaching fellow at the University of St Andrews. In addition to teaching courses in both philosophy of science and contemporary organization and management theory, he has been invited to hold writing seminars at the University of Leicester, the University of St. Andrews, the University of the West of England, the ESADE Business School, Corvinus University Budapest, the University of Constance, and the University of Copenhagen.
Thomas is also a publishing scholar in his own right, with papers appearing in the Journal of Economic Methodology, Philosophy and Rhetoric, Culture and Organization, Journal of Organizational Change Management, and Social Epistemology (forthcoming).
He has been blogging about academic writing since 2005 at www.secondlanguage.blogspot.com.
2. Discursive Impact. Your ability to speak and write knowledgeably is conditioned by the "discursive formation" or "disciplinary matrix" in which you participate. Thomas will talk to participants about how the exemplary work that has already been done in their traditions can be used to inform their own efforts to write more effectively. He will also show participants how to use our growing knowledge of citation networks to give their writing the impact it deserves. The examples discussed in this part of the workshop will be selected and analyzed in collaboration with central figures in the SCOS community, including input from the editors of Culture and Organization. But the aim is, of course, to increase our impact beyond this particular community, and this particular journal. The focus will be on the construction of the SCOS ethos (its “dwelling place”) in the broader field of organization studies.
3. Time Management. One of the most common explanations that scholars give for not writing is that there is no time to do so. Thomas dismantles some common myths about the time that is required to write effectively and provides a number of simple tools to help participants secure the time they need to work. These tools can be used by individuals, but can benefit greatly from a supportive collegial environment.
4. Space Management. The "space" for writing must be thought of both physically and conceptually. It is important to structure both the environment in which writing goes on (i.e., that it be sequestered enough from everything else that is going on at the same time) and the manuscript that is being developed. If you begin with a blank page in an open space you are not likely to work effectively. Thomas will show participants how to get organized to avoid this problem with the structure of a typical SCOS-like article in mind (see part 2).
To register, please send an email to thomas@basboell.com with "WPRSCOS" in the subject field.
About Thomas
Born in Denmark and raised in Canada, Thomas is a native speaker of two languages. He holds a bachelor’s degree in philosophy from the University of Calgary, a master’s (cand.mag.) in philosophy from the University of Copenhagen, and a PhD in business administration from the Copenhagen Business School.
After receiving his PhD, he was assistant professor at the Department of Management, Politics and Philosophy of the Copenhagen Business School, where he then served as resident writing consultant from 2007 to 2011.
In addition to running his own consultancy (Thomas Basbøll, Philosophical Investigations) he is external lecturer at the Copenhagen Business School and honorary teaching fellow at the University of St Andrews. In addition to teaching courses in both philosophy of science and contemporary organization and management theory, he has been invited to hold writing seminars at the University of Leicester, the University of St. Andrews, the University of the West of England, the ESADE Business School, Corvinus University Budapest, the University of Constance, and the University of Copenhagen.
Thomas is also a publishing scholar in his own right, with papers appearing in the Journal of Economic Methodology, Philosophy and Rhetoric, Culture and Organization, Journal of Organizational Change Management, and Social Epistemology (forthcoming).
He has been blogging about academic writing since 2005 at www.secondlanguage.blogspot.com.