Expressions of interest are welcome for an online Work in Progress Workshop on Thursday 10 April 2025. This will be online, to support international participation. You may share work for comments or participate without sharing work. Express interest here by 30 Nov 2024: https://forms.gle/VbMbcfShfWgyRd5h9

About the workshop

The idea is to enable philosophers of medicine (broadly construed, as always) to share and get comments on their work in a friendly and supportive environment. This is further to the Centre’s broader mission of supporting interactions and connections in the international philosophy of medicine community, which is dispersed across institutions and continents.

Work can be at any stage of development, and up to the length of one paper/chapter, with the goal of publication in a journal or book. It will be circulated to workshop participants several weeks ahead of the workshop, to allow time for reading. Each participant will be able to use their slot as they wish, but the advisable format is a fairly brief intro to refresh the other participants on the content, and then an open discussion. (If you just give a talk you’ll miss out on feedback.)

If there’s appetite in the PhilMed community, we could have more such events.

What kind of work?

You could share anything you want feedback on, provided the destination is publication in a journal, book (authored or edited), or similar scholarly venue. Some examples might be:

• A paper you have got half way through and are now stuck with
• A paper that was rejected from a journal, along with reviewers’ irrational excuses for comments (anonymised if not already anonymous)
• A paper based on a chapter of your PhD thesis
• A chapter of a book your writing
• A chapter you’ve been asked to contribute to a handbook

The main exclusion is work towards a PhD, Masters, or other degree, for which opportunities for feedback exist (or ought to exist!) through your institution. However, work that you are developing from a thesis for publication is fine.

I’m interested in sharing my work. What now?

If you are interested, please express interest by 30 November 2024, using this form: https://forms.gle/VbMbcfShfWgyRd5h9

I’m interested in participating, but may not have work to share. Can I come?

If you are interested in attending but do not want to share work, you can still express an interest – just indicate this on the form. You can still share work if you change your mind, but priority will be given to those who indicated this up front.

What’s the final deadline?

Your will need to share your work by 25 January so we can distribute it by the end of the month, and give everyone ample reading time. (Consider that peer review requests typically allow a couple of months for just one paper, and that reviewers routinely don’t manage to stick to this.)

Queries

For queries, please email alex.broadbent at durham.ac.uk

Hoping to see you there!