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Are you a PhD student or researcher and curious about working with video in research but not sure how or where to start? Join us for a workshop in the craft of videography at Aalto University in Helsinki, Finland, 3-5 May 2023.

The workshop is led by professor Joonas Rokka (EMLYON Business School), and is organized together with Dr. Ari Kuismin (University of Jyväskylä, Finland), Alice Wickström (Aalto University, School of Business), Ana Paula Lafaire (Aalto University, School of Business) and the internationally renowned visual artist Pilvi Takala.

In the workshop, expert lectuers with professor Rokka and Takala will be combined with a hands-on videography research project conducted in teams. The project will be both designed and completed during the workshop under the supervision of the organizers. The workshop will provide participants with the theoretical and practical tools needed for videographic work in their respective field in an intimate and explorative setting. We will also provide insights into how scholars can submit and publish their videography in academic and other impactful platforms.

 INTERESTED IN ATTENDING?

Please submit a motivation letter (max 500 words) by 17.2.2023 to ari.j.kuismin(at)jyu.fi

Acceptance will be notified early March together with the final schedule and selected pre-readings and films. Participants are expected to arrange their own travels and accomodation. Please note that active participation during the whole workshop is expected from the participants.

For questions please contact: [email protected]

The workshop is funded by the Foundation for Economic Education, Finland.

INTERESTED IN KNOWING MORE?

Please consider viewing this introductory material about videography in research:

WHAT IS VIDEOGRAPHIC RESEARCH?

Paper Development Workshop, 25-26 May 2023, Aalto University School of Business
Submission deadline 9 December 2022

The aim of this paper development workshop is to foster conversations across different phenomena and empirical settings which give rise to the emergence of markets and fields. Building broadly on the sociology of markets literature, we take stock of where we are and what are the opportunities for making use of novel lenses and methodological approaches. We call for papers that are in developmental or more advanced stage that can benefit from and contribute to the workshop and to the development of this field of scholarship.

The workshop will feature keynotes and panel discussions to highlight the current and future directions in the research on field and market emergence. Michael Lounsbury (University of Alberta) and Stine Grodal (Northeastern University) give keynotes. The workshop is built around paper development sessions where the keynote speakers joined with Henri Schildt, Nina Granqvist (both Aalto University), and other professors and scholars act as discussants. The workshop will also feature panel discussions with practitioners from the emerging fields of science and technology, for example in quantum computing.

The workshop has a limited number of spaces, and the selection of papers will be based on extended abstracts of a maximum of 1500 words. The deadline for the submission of extended abstracts is December 9, 2022. Participants will be notified of decisions by 23 December 2022. Full paper submissions are expected during early May 2023.

For more details and instructions on how to apply, please see the call for papers at the end of this page. For further information, please contact Dr. Anne-Sophie Barbe, [email protected]

Dear Friends,

We are excited to share our next events with you!

Our February workshop will take place on Tuesday February 28^th at 17h CET via zoom (be aware of the unusual time). We are pleased to welcome Martha Feldman, Professor of Urban Planning and Public Policy, Management, Political Science and Sociology at the University of California Irvine and Kathrin Sele, Academy of Finland Research Fellow at Aalto University School of Business.

In this workshop, Martha and Kathrin will introduce and discuss Domain Analysis (Spradley, 1979) as a way to find and explore meaning in our data. In particular, the workshop aims at enabling researchers to describe what they see from their informants’ point of view.

Information about this event and the registration link can be found here.

Our March seminar will take place on Tuesday March 14^that 15h CET via Zoom. We are pleased to welcome Haitao Yu from IESEG School of Management who will present his paper:

One Drop of Water in a River: How Organizations Identify Global Issues

Information about this event and the registration link can be found here.

Our complete list of 2022/23 seminars and workshops is available on our website. For regular updates on our activities follow us on Twitter @EthnoAt. Please feel free to forward this email to others who might be interested.

Best Regards,

The Ethnography Atelier Team

Henri Schildt is holding a workshop on ways to facilitate and support qualitative research with automated data analysis supported by the new generative AI tools.

The idea of the workshop is to explore together how AI can increase our research productivity and comprehensiveness of our data analysis, thus boosting our creative thinking. It is at the moment suitable for publicly available data or anonymized interviews that do not have personal or confidential information.

Time: 10.00-11.30 on the 3rd of April

Location: Aalto Business School, Department of Mangement, Room U213

The workshop is open for anyone interested.

• The Northeastern Qualitative Research Conference on March 1st, 2023
• Popularizing Research roundtable workshop, 16th of February, 2023

  We are organizing a workshop where we discuss alternative ways of popularizing research. We talk about challenges and opportunities and also discuss different forms of text such as news outlets, social media, podcasts, books etc. Susanna Rosin from Aalto External Communications has kindly agreed to join the event and give a brief introduction to Aalto services. Thank you Minna Halme and Paula Koskinen-Sandberg who have indicated their availability as round table hosts in the session.

• Seminar on writing and theorizing, 10th of February 2023 In this seminar session, we examine the practice of writing as a key component of theory development. In understanding where theory comes from, we often focus on methodological and cognitive perspectives, which may imply a false assumption that writing is a separate, instrumental activity where fully-matured theories are merely “spelled out”, “reported” or “documented”. While this view has little explicit support in a field where theories are narratives, there is surprisingly little methodological work on the practice of writing theory as a truly generative activity. Professors Jukka Rintamäki and Saku Mantere will lead a discussion based on two text examples attached to this email. The conversation is open to both PhD students and faculty.

• Wellbeing in academia, 23rd of  January, 2023 The wellbeing in academia event will focus on supervision and reflection on challenges and wishes during our PhD studies. Therefore, the event is mostly targeted at PhD students, but anyone interested is welcome as well. Below you can find more detailed program:
  - Introduction and overview of available resources for wellbeing of PhD students
  - Greetings from our ombudsperson, Marjo-Riitta Diehl
  - Supervision: expectations and positive cases, by Maija Taka, Academic Coordinator at School of Engineering
  - Interactive reflection: dream team, by Maija Taka, Academic Coordinator at School of Engineering
• "What is this a case of" Panel (see video below), 1st of December 2022 As part of the EIASM EDEN Advanced course on Case Studies in Business and Management Research we will organize a panel entitled ‘What is this a case of?’ with Saku Mantere (McGill University, Aalto University), Jacqueline Mees-Buss (University of New South Wales), Catherine Welch (Trinity College Dublin, Aalto University) and Rebecca Piekkari. In this panel we will discuss why theoretical contributions rarely emerge from explaining what happens in the case by applying theoretical language. Rather, theoretical contributions are constructed by explaining how the case sheds light on theory. This is what is meant by the famous question of  ‘what is this a case of?’. We will also cover the role of reasoning in theorizing.  
• Research Get-Away, 6-7 October 2022