Duck Family Graduate Workshop 2019
5th annual Duck Family Graduate Workshop
University of Washington, Seattle
May 13-15, 2020
On May 13-15, 2020, UW’s Center for Environmental Politics organized the 6th annual Duck Family Graduate Workshop for doctoral students working in the area of environmental politics and governance (EPG). This follows on the highly successful workshop that the Center hosted in previous years. The annual EPG Grad workshop provides a venue for doctoral students to present their work, receive feedback, and network with others working on similar issues. We invited select faculty from the University of Washington to serve as resource persons.
Objective:
Why the workshop? Understanding the governance and political aspects of environmental issues is critical for addressing the gamut of environmental challenges. The politics of governance perhaps has become an even more critical factor in the changed political milieu. The multi-disciplinary nature of EPG research often makes it hard to share ideas, concepts, and research methods across relevant disciplines. We hope the annual Duck Family Graduate Workshop will help overcome these barriers and provide a multi-disciplinary venue for doctoral students to become active participants in the community of EPG scholars.
Expenses:
There are no workshop fees and the Center pays for local expenses, namely each participant’s food and shared hotel lodging (with two participants per room).
Participants are responsible for travel expenses. The Center will, however, purchase carbon offsets for all participants.
Application Logistics:
These annual workshops are most useful for doctoral students who have made substantial progress in their graduate studies: that is, they are able to present a fully developed empirical paper. For future workshops, applicants need to submit:
– an abstract (about 800 – 1,000 words) of a paper.
– a letter of support from their graduate advisor.
For more information on past Workshops: