DYR

"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. Fill out the When is good poll to help us choose a time.

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.