The R.A.W. Network and Students at Mid Sweden University
In a world, which is increasingly talked about and referred to as complex and changing, how do academic scholars produce written versions about it? Are academic languages and texts as complex and changing as the world they portray?
R.A.W., the Network for Reflexive Academic Writing Methodologies is part of Mid Sweden University’s trademark as a young, dynamic multi-campus environment with a goal to combine academic traditions with new ideas and practices. It opens up an innovative space for international collaboration among scholars in all academic disciplines and offers lectures with international guest researchers on a regular basis open to all staff and students. Indeed, the network will contribute to increase the quality of the academic environment for students during their studies by providing access to virtual information about these issues, to take part in open lectures arranged by the network and to invite to inspiring readings at the R.A.W Book Corner. The network also welcome students who graduate at Mid Sweden University to become members of the network with the purpose of encouraging and supporting the use of reflexive academic writing methodologies in future academic professional practice.The RAW network offers the following information to and activities for students:
•A virtual space with updated information through the home page: http://www.miun.se/raw
•Open lectures at the R.A.W. Event twice yearly. Please read more at the home page under: The RAW-event.
•The R.A.W. Book Corner in house E, 3rd floor, campus area Östersund. The book corner keeps a limited number of publications written by members of the network, but also other interesting academic readings on methodologies such as narrative analysis, memory work, creative writing and visual analysis as well as poems, one hour novellas, the postcolonial magazine “Slut”, and Exhibition catalogues. A selection of essays written by students at the advanced level, which uses a reflexive methodology, is part of the exhibition of texts
•A newsletter, which is published twice yearly. Please read more at the home page under: Newsletter.
