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"Do Your Research" - a bring your own research workshop at UW

DYR is a research workshop for UW currently being run by Kaylea Champion, Salt Hale and Nate TeBlunthuis. Participants present research-in-progress and provide feedback, accountability, and support to each other in weekly meetings. We tend to study social media, online communities, collective action, organizations, collaboration, and related topics. We embrace a wide range of methods. Our focus is to support one another in our research projects.

Get connected/involved

We will are currently planning to meet over the summer at a time and place yet to be determined.

To get additional information about the workshop, contact one of the organizers (Kaylea, Salt, Nate) or subscribe to our email list: dyr-uw@communitydata.cc via https://communitydata.cc/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/dyr-uw.

Format and expectations

For each meeting, one or more of us will circulate an artifact related to their current research projects. This might be an outline, proposal, one-pager, draft or presentation. We welcome projects in any stage of development where the group will be able to provide meaningful and actionable feedback. Written artifacts should be at least 500-1000 words to give the group something substantive to engage with.

If you circulate written work, please do so no less than 1 business day prior to our meeting.

Instead of circulating written work, you can also do a presentation. If it's early stage work, you might think of this as a 5-10 minute pitch for the project. If it's something that's further along, you could do a longer presentation or a practice talk.

For a given meeting we might have two shorter (20 minutes total) discussions or one longer (45 minutes total) discussion. You can sign up for an appropriate time slot below. Longer discussion sessions should be reserved for more complete work. Ask the mailing list if you have questions about signing up for a discussion slot.

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 === Format and expectations ===
-* If you are circulating work, we welcome all projects in any stage, but we ask that it be unpublished work in some stage where the group's feedback will likely matter to you. No formatting requirements, but please share a minimum of 500-1000 words (if you're at a very early stage of a project) to give the group something to engage with. Longer pieces are welcome too.
+* For each meeting, one or more of us will circulate an artifact related to their current research projects. This might be an outline, proposal, one-pager, draft or presentation. We welcome projects in any stage of development where the group will be able to provide meaningful and actionable feedback.  Written artifacts should be at least 500-1000 words to give the group something substantive to engage with.
-* '''If you circulate written work, please do so no less than 1 business day prior to our meeting.''' (Note that this means Friday for a Monday meeting).
-* Instead of circulating written work, you can also do a presentation. If it's early stage work, you might think of this as a 5-10 minute pitch for the project. If it's something that's further along, you could do a longer presentation. No matter what, I recommend limiting presentations to an absolute maximum of 15 minutes.
-* At times, we have had short (20 minutes total) and long (45 minutes total) discussion slots. Please sign up for a time slot that you believe is appropriate. If you're not sure what's appropriate, you should ask.
-* Each discussion will usually begin with an around-the-table where everyone offers one comment on the work that was circulated (after any other updates).
+* If you circulate written work, please do so no less than 1 business day prior to our meeting.
+* Instead of circulating written work, you can also do a presentation. If it's early stage work, you might think of this as a 5-10 minute pitch for the project. If it's something that's further along, you could do a longer presentation or a practice talk.
+* For a given meeting we might have two shorter (20 minutes total) discussions or one longer (45 minutes total) discussion. You can sign up for an appropriate time slot below. Longer discussion sessions should be reserved for more complete work. Ask the mailing list if you have questions about signing up for a discussion slot.
 === Schedule ===