This workshop strives to prepare future students, researchers and other professionals to the reality of fieldwork.

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These interactive sessions aim to tackle practical, ethical, cultural, sanitary reality, safety and relationship aspects of the field.

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Aims:

• Steps to take before the field: admin wise (insurance...), health (vaccines...) and also logistically (what should you pack?).

• Talk about risks (safety, health, isolation) and discuss preventive strategies.

• Discuss about the psychological difficulties linked to the phases of before, during and after the field.

• Raise awareness about the specific challenges women, LGBTQIA+ individuals, minorities or young workers may face.

• Promote ethical thinking on power dynamics, the relationship with the local population and the responsibility of each person.

• Create a space for dialogue on the different lived experiences and encourage mutual aid and support. 

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Target audience:

Anyone and everyone preparing for fieldwork:

• Doctoral or master students

• Early researchers

• Supervisors, principal investigators looking for solutions

• Field engineers, technicians and assistants​

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Speakers:

For every workshop, we bring together a panel of different speakers with diverse and extensive field experience  in order to offer rich and diversified expertise suitable for all.

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Format:

• Workshops last 1 to 2 hours, in person or online

• General introduction to Let's talk fieldwork, held biannually (early January and mid-June)

• Also available by demand for any laboratory, university or research site

• In French and in English