It’s been an exciting year with The Safer Fieldwork Project so far!
We have held four workshops and developed two entirely new concepts: one for supervisors and a bilingual format in English and French.
The workshop for supervisors is a four-hour format in which we provide a space to reflect and exchange about supervisors’ and lecturers’ role in relation to students’ fieldwork safety. We further discuss the benefits and challenges of considering risks and safety before, during, and after fieldwork.
The bilingual format is an adapted version of our two-day workshop, “Beyond Tales of Heroism,” specifically designed to accommodate participants who do not share a common language. We have held it for a mainly English-speaking group with additional sessions for French speakers. We adapted all our group discussions and exercises accordingly. Holding a bilingual workshop was quite a challenge for us, mainly because our workshops heavily rely on the exchange between participants, and we were pleasantly surprised how smoothly it went!
We are now heading into our well-deserved summer break but are very much looking forward to working on fieldwork safety again in the fall!