MultiTrans research project is pleased to announce the Writing with the Arctic - Academic publishing initiative for the 2025-2026 academic year, supporting academic knowledge production across disciplinaries. As part of this initiative, we warmly invite you to join our in-person: Deep dive - Paper Development Workshop
Have you been working on an article that needs a final push? Would you like to experiment with new writing strategies or explore how writing coaching can support your process? This workshop offers you the chance to move your manuscript forward in a supportive, interdisciplinary environment.
The DEEP DIVE - Paper Development Workshop (PDW) is designed for qualitative researchers at different stages of their careers—including PhD students, postdoctoral fellows, and established scholars—who are preparing a research article in English for an international peer-reviewed journal or an edited volume. Possible topics may include social, cultural, political, or environmental events and processes, examined through lens of qualitative research.
Throughout the week, participants will receive developmental feedback on their manuscripts and engage in: Collaborative writing sessions, discussions on publishing and peer review, strategies for writing and building qualitative arguments, networking and peer support in a collegial atmosphere.
To participate in the PDW, we invite you to send an early draft of your manuscript (e.g. outline and draft text min 3-max 10 pages) for which you would like feedback (a new working paper, not yet peer-reviewed) by email to sari.p.pietikainen@jyu.fi by October 1st, 2025. Notification of acceptance will be sent by October 6th 2025.
We expect all PDW participants to committed to reading and providing constructive feedback on papers presented by other workshop participants as well as contributing to the various activities during the workshop. Please make sure that you can participate in the whole program.
The workshop takes place at UiT The Arctic University of Tromsø, campus Breivika, rooms: TBA.
The participants will organise their travelling and accommodation for themselves. Unfortunately, we do not have any financial support available, but there is no participation fee.
Associate Professor Ingrid de Saint-Georges at the University of Luxembourg, is an experienced reviewer and academic writing mentor who specializes in designing courses for international, multilingual, and interdisciplinary audiences. Her course offerings in Academic Writing and Career development include Heuristics and the Art of Theorizing, Crafting Knowledge Studio: Impactful Knowledge Production for PhD Writing and Publications (cotaught with S. Pietikäinen), Multilingualism and Internationalisation, and How to think and Plan for Academic Career: AcademicWayfaring (with I. Crisostomo). She has served as an invited scholar at the Universities of Oulu, Strasbourg, Thammasat, and Jyväskylä for summer schools and flagship programs. Her work at the Research Institute for Multilingualism focuses on the intersection of multilingualism, education, and postcolonial studies. She leads the Work, Training and Mobility research group and serves on the editorial board of the Journal of International Mobility.
Professor Sari Pietikäinen at the University of Jyväskylä and a visiting research fellow at the UiT The Arctic University of Norway, is an experienced editor, reviewer and writing teacher across disciplines of language and discourse studies; communication and media studies; and anthropology and cultural studies. Her research interests include critical assemblage analysis of climate change and multispecies interaction in the Arctic, the power of discourse in revaluing natural resources, and the politics of language and identity in unequal multilingual situations. Applying multiple approaches, including assemblage ontology, nexus analysis, critical discourse analysis, and ethnography, she has led several international research projects examining shifts in ecological, political, and cultural discourses and practices in the heating Arctic. In collaboration with stakeholders and colleagues, Sari has co-developed various knowledge designs, such as science postcards, collaborative photograph exhibitions, and art-based conversation pieces. She is the former Editor-in-Chief for the Journal of Sociolinguistics and serves at multiple editorial boards for international journals. Her recent book is Cold Rush: A Critical Assemblage Analysis of a Heating Arctic (2024, Palgrave Macmillan).
For the academic year 2025/2026 Sari works with the MultiTrans-team, led by prof. Hilde Sollid and Dr. Florian Hiss.
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