EVENTS
23/10/2024
The Publication Programme for Early Career Researchers was launched with the Kick-off Workshop on 1 October 2024
Through the Asia-Pacific ICH Safeguarding Research Forum, a platform established in FY 2022, IRCI has been organizing research seminars and other events. The Forum aims to encourage researchers and research institutions in the Asia-Pacific region to interact and collaborate on ICH safeguarding across their academic disciplines and areas of expertise. As part of the Forum’s activities this year, we have launched a new programme called the ‘Publication Programme for Early Career Researchers’ to encourage early career researchers to become more interested and engaged in research for safeguarding ICH at the international level. To kick off the programme, a half-day online workshop consisting of four sessions was successfully held on 1 October 2024 with the participation of seven early career researchers who have been selected for the programme, their mentors and experts in ICH research and academic English writing.
During the introductory session, after an overview of the programme and schedule of events was given, participants introduced themselves and greeted their mentors. Session 2 was a thematic seminar titled ‘What is ICH Research? The Viewpoint of a Multi-disciplinary Legal Scholar’, moderated by Ms Ritu Sethi (Craft Revival Trust, India). In this session, Ms Janet Blake (Shahid Beheshti University, Iran) gave an informative presentation on the trend of ICH research and challenges, emphasizing the new need for interdisciplinary viewpoints to safeguard ICH. The panel discussion (session 3), moderated by Mr Christopher Ballard (The Australian National University), focused on writing for academic journals with three panellists involved in editing academic ICH research journals: Mr Iida Taku (National Museum of Ethnology, Japan), Ms Sethi and Ms Blake. Participants were able to gain direct insight into the expectations of editors, which should help them develop a research paper. In the final session, which focused on academic writing in English, we had two practical lectures, one on the early planning and drafting stages in the strategic process of developing a research paper by Paul Nerney (Academic Writing Consultant for Research Publication) and the other on the basics of constructing publishable texts in academic English by Susan Lopez-Nerney (Academic Writing Consultant for Research Publication). Lecture on academic writing will be continued and completed in the next two workshops.
Although the workshop was designed for the programme participants, we opened it up to other early career researchers who applied to the programme and there were 35 participants in total.
The next online workshop will take place on 29 October 2024.
Session 3 The moderator and panellists
The programme participants, some mentors and workshop lecturers