Spring writing retreat with DIGIT
Would you like to participate in a three-day workshop focused on academic writing?
The aim of this retreat is to bring participants together in a quiet environment to concentrate on scientific writing. Each participant will receive personalized feedback on their text from the course leaders, and the program also includes dedicated time for peer-to-peer discussions in groups.
Writing Retreat
When: 18-20 March 2026
Where: TBD
Application deadline: 1 February 2026
Application: https://nettskjema.no/a/573556
Please note that your place is not reserved until you hear back from us. We have limited capacity – 12 spots only.
Prerequisites: A text (e.g., paper draft, kappa, or similar) must be submitted in advance of the workshop. Please highlight a section of approximately 2,500 words that you would like the course leaders and other participants to focus on during the discussion. Upload the text you will be working on here by 18 February: https://nettskjema.no/a/573557
The text should be a draft rather than a final version.
The writing retreat is open to DIGIT members only. All reasonable costs (economy travel up to 2800 NOK) and full board at the hotel will be covered.
Content
The workshop is structured to provide you with dedicated and uninterrupted time for individual writing. In addition to focused sessions for drafting your text, the workshop will include peer-to-peer feedback sessions, walk-and-talk discussions, and personalized feedback from the course leaders. Participants will be organized into writing groups where you will present your paper to your colleagues and the course leaders. You will also serve as a discussant for the work of your fellow group members.
To maintain focus, we ask all participants to fully commit to the entire program and refrain from external obligations during these days.
Please scroll down to view the preliminary program.
Preliminary program
Wednesday 18 March
Arrival and lunch
How to give constructive feedback
Group work with paper presentations, discussions, and feedback
Writing session
Thursday 19 March
Optional yoga
Writing sessions
Walk-and-talk with writing partners
Friday 20 March
Optional yoga
Writing sessions
Feedback and evaluation
Closing lunch
Course leader
Marit Haldar is a professor of sociology at OsloMet and the director of the DIGIT research school and the Center for Digitalization of Public Services and Citizenship (CEDIC).
Throughout her research-career she has been concerned with ideology and cultural analysis of childhood, old age, gender, family and (social) technology. She has also studied marginalized subjects in the welfare state and inequalities in treatment in the health care system from an ideological perspective.
Please feel free to contact the DIGIT coordinator should you have any questions.