PhD training workshop: ‘Navigating the Public Environmental Humanities’
Location: 1.50 Hybrid teaching room EFI, 1 Lauriston Pl, EH3 9EF
Time: 9:45-8:30pm (dinner included)
Date: 14th May 2026
Join us for an in-person SGSAH-funded workshop organised by EEHN PhD Lab members. This day-long training event will bring doctoral students together for a series of talks and workshops on navigating the ‘Public Environmental Humanities’. While engaging various publics has long been an endeavour of the Environmental Humanities, a recent agenda-setting article (Van Dooren et al., 2024), new master’s programmes dedicated to the topic and a rise in environmentally focused Collaborative Doctoral Awards signal a renewed focus on collaborating beyond the academy. While this emphasis promises students tangible ‘impacts’ of their research, navigating research design, execution, and dissemination with different publics presents ethical, methodological, and epistemological challenges.
The event will consist of a morning panel discussion with leading scholars and practitioners in the field, followed by an afternoon of practitioner and student-led workshops on topics such as participatory and co-produced research design, creative forms for public storytelling and methods for facilitating inclusive socioenvironmental change. Together, we will explore how to apply unique interdisciplinary methods from the Environmental Humanities to research with communities, artists, policymakers, organisations, and other publics.
This event is open to all Arts and Humanities Doctoral Researchers in Scotland working in the Environmental Humanities. The workshop will be followed by an evening meal at Tuktuk Indian Street Food. Please note lunch and refreshments will also be provided and transport support is available.
To secure a place, please complete the registration form by Wednesday 29th April. We look forward to seeing you there!
Ref: Van Dooren, T. et al. (2024) ‘Developing the Public Environmental Humanities: Challenges, Opportunities, and Lessons’, Resistance: A Journal of Radical Environmental Humanities, 11(2–3), pp. 6–44. Available at: https://doi.org/10.1353/res.2024.a953845.
Please contact astacey@ed.ac.uk if you have any queries.
