| CODE | DOC6047 | ||||||
| TITLE | Beyond your Ph.D.: Designing Documents for Supranational Organisations and International Institutions | ||||||
| UM LEVEL | D - Doctoral Workshops/Symposium | ||||||
| MQF LEVEL | Not Applicable | ||||||
| ECTS CREDITS | Not Applicable | ||||||
| DEPARTMENT | Doctoral School | ||||||
| DESCRIPTION | The workshop addresses a need for doctoral researchers who are curious, ambitious or enterprising and who wish to seek out openings in a knowledge economy with an increasing internationalisation of outlook. Organisations, public and increasingly private, draft key documents treating cultural, scientific, socio-economic and socio-technical themes, sometimes featuring together. These may involve fieldwork, desk study/archival research and laboratory/instrumental methods outside university environments. In this workshop, doctoral researchers will learn about formal documentation and will bring their varied subject synergies and interests to bear in critically analysing and evaluating real-world documents from supranational/inter-governmental organisations. Beyond their Ph.D., in the workshop title, embraces the prospect of making a career articulating documents – knowledge assets – within institutions such as the European Space Agency (ESA), World Trade Organisation (WTO), Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD), United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organisation (UNESCO), International Organisation for Standardisation (ISO), European Council, European Commission, European Parliament, the Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO), and the World Health Organisation (WHO). Indeed, doctoral graduates may seek such opportunities not necessarily within such bodies, as private international organisations make numerous submissions, proposals and studies shaping the emerging agenda and debates. Outcomes: By the end of this workshop, doctoral researchers should be able to: - understand the meaning and value of document design and validation; - understand and apply methods of formal drafting and document articulation for international bodies; - appreciate the qualities institutions strive for in authoritative publications, such as authenticity of source and method, integrity of data and information, and reliability; - critically analyse short real-world documents, such as a strategic plan, a climate change study, a food safety report, and an innovation study. |
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| ADDITIONAL NOTES | Timetable Details - Please click here for further details. | ||||||
| STUDY-UNIT TYPE | Workshop | ||||||
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| LECTURER/S | Robert M. Cachia |
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The availability of optional units may be subject to timetabling constraints. Units not attracting a sufficient number of registrations may be withdrawn without notice. It should be noted that all the information in the description above applies to study-units available during the academic year 2025/6. It may be subject to change in subsequent years. |
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