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Date: Monday 23 – Friday 27 February 2026
Time: 09:30 - 12:30 CET
This course introduces and applies strategies for writing up academic research – beginning where most methods courses end, when you have largely completed your research and need to shape it into a coherent, compelling text.
We approach writing as a practice, exploring ideas and tools relevant to different stages of the writing-up process. Our aim is to foster a sense of the immense power and responsibility that lie in writing, as well as the creativity and joy that writing can elucidate. You can apply the ideas and tools presented to a range of academic writing projects, though they work particularly well for long-form non-fiction prose, such as articles, reports, or books.
The course focuses on techniques to begin or continue writing; distinctions between narrating and describing; different strategies for telling and reporting; situating arguments and texts; and writing as a way of capturing life.
By the end of this course, you will:
3 ECTS credits awarded for engaging fully in class activities.
1 additional ECTS credit awarded for completing a post-course assignment.
Kristin Anabel Eggeling is Assistant Professor at the Department of Political Science at the University of Copenhagen and a visiting researcher at the Danish Institute of International Studies.
Kristin researches, teaches, and writes about international politics, diplomacy, global tech policy and qualitative and ethnographic methods in international relations. Kristin has done ethnographic work in the Middle East, Central Asia, Europe and the US among a range of different actors, primarily political elites and diplomats.
In 2023, Kristin was awarded the Anthony Deos Early Career Award for the emerging scholar in Diplomatic Studies from the International Studies Association (ISA). Her work has won other international awards and has been published in leading international relations and social science journals including the European Journal of International Relations, the Review of International Studies, Global Studies Quarterly, Millennium, Geopolitics, and Qualitative Research.
You’ve done the research. The data is collected or generated. You have a theoretical hunch, a conceptual plan. You have notes and memos. Ideas and outlines. Perhaps an abstract. And below that: a blank page.
You hesitate. How do you find the story in your data? How do you move from doing the research to writing it up? What have you come here to say?
This course will guide you through the process of moving from data to story through focusing on four parts of the writing process:
This course is built up around reading, reflecting, and writing exercises and you will get most out of it when you come with your own writing project and/or existing outlines, fragments, or full manuscripts of texts. That said, no prior knowledge is required, and no particular software or research method needs to be known. The only thing that is required is an open mind and a willingness to write and rewrite.
You will engage in a variety of activities designed to deepen your understanding of the subject matter. While the cornerstone of your training experience will be daily live teaching sessions, the learning commitment will extend beyond these. This ensures that you engage deeply with the course material, participate actively, and complete assessments to solidify your learning.
If you have registered and paid for the course, you will be given access to our Learning Management System (LMS) approximately two weeks before the course start date. Here, you can view course materials such as pre-course readings. You will be expected to commit approximately 20 hours per week leading up the start date to familiarise yourself with the content and complete any pre-course tasks.
During the course week, you will need to dedicate approximately 1–3 hours per day to prepare and work on assignments.
Each course offers the opportunity to earn three ECTS credits. Should you wish to earn a fourth credit, you will need to complete a post-course assignment, which will involve approximately 25 hours of work.
This course description may be subject to subsequent adaptations (e.g. taking into account new developments in the field, participant demands, group size, etc.). Registered participants will be informed at the time of change.
By registering for this course, you confirm that you possess the knowledge required to follow it. The instructor will not teach these prerequisite items. If in doubt, please contact us before registering.