In collaboration with:
The Marie Skłodowska-Curie Doctoral Network “Reworlding”
The Social Pattern Recognition – SPaRe Lab of the Department of Sociology and Social Research, University of Trento

Mapping, Representing, and Visualising Ethnographic Data

9 July 2025, 2:30-6:30 PM + 10 July 2025, 10:30-12:30 AM
University of Trento, Department of Sociology and Social Research

The pre-conference workshop provides an opportunity for Ph.D. students and junior post-docs engaged in ethnographic and qualitative research to discuss their work with colleagues and senior researchers in an interdisciplinary, informal and stimulating environment.

For this conference edition, the workshop focuses on the representation of ethnographic data and analysis, including complex networks of eco-social and power relations. Qualitative research generates rich, in-depth findings, yet it often fails to synthesise, visualise and formalise them. This reduces the potential impact, circulation, and re-use —across disciplinary communities, and beyond— of these analyses. Drawing on participants’ ongoing fieldwork and data communication challenges, the workshop aims to explore modalities, techniques, and artefacts for the wider use of ethnographic findings.

Participants

Max. 20 selected Ph.D. students or junior post-doc scholars.

Registered conference participants and MSCA-DN “Reworlding” doctoral candidates can attend the workshop free of charge.

Selection procedure

If you are interested in participating in the Doctoral Workshop, please send a one-page statement describing your current research by e-mail to erq.ethno.conf.soc@unitn.it (subject: “Pre-conference workshop application”) by 2 May 2025.

The statement should focus on what kind of data you are collecting and how, and what challenges you are facing or foresee in terms of their representation.

The organisers will select up to 20 participants by 28 May.

Organisers

Chiara Bassetti, Department of Sociology and Social Research, University of Trento

Nick Dines, Department of Sociology and Social Research, University of Milano Bicocca

Liesbeth Huybrechts, Faculty of Architecture and Arts, Hasselt University

Cristiano Storni, Department of Computer Science and Information Systems, UL Limerick

Maurizio Teli, Department of Sustainability and Planning, Aalborg University