Writing up Academic Research: Moving from Data to Story

About

This course introduces and applies strategies for writing up academic research – beginning where most methods courses end, when you have largely completed your research and need to shape it into a coherent, compelling text

Course leader

Kristin Anabel Eggeling is Assistant Professor at the Department of Political Science at the University of Copenhagen and a visiting researcher at the Danish Institute of International Studies. Kristin researches, teaches, and writes about international politics, diplomacy, global tech policy and qualitative and ethnographic methods in international relations. Kristin has done ethnographic work in the Middle East, Central Asia, Europe and the US among a range of different actors, primarily political elites and diplomats. In 2023, Kristin was awarded the Anthony Deos Early Career Award for the emerging scholar in Diplomatic Studies from the International Studies Association (ISA). Her work has won other international awards and has been published in leading international relations and social science journals including the European Journal of International Relations, the Review of International Studies, Global Studies Quarterly, Millennium, Geopolitics, and Qualitative Research

Target group

Social science researchers

Course aim

The course focuses on techniques to begin or continue writing; distinctions between narrating and describing; different strategies for telling and reporting; situating arguments and texts; and writing as a way of capturing life

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