By Dr Edward Hall, Associate Director, SGS-DTC
It's 6.30pm on Monday 17th June, and I am sitting at my laptop with a cup of tea in the centre of Edinburgh, reflecting on an amazing first day of the SGS Summer School 2013. Great sessions, good coffee, excellent conversation, a tasty lunch and a superb buzz of intellectual excitement!
The four sessions I attended represented both the diversity of social science in Scotland - including 'methods and philosophical reflections in social work' and 'filmmaking and ethnography' - and its distinctive character - critical, engaged, and interdisciplinary. The summer school has an international flavour too - the social work session featured Walter Lorenz (Bolzano, Italy) and Alan Klima (Davis, California, USA) led the ethnographic film workshop - something that, we believe, is of huge benefit to the students attending.
So, a great start to what promises to be a fantastic and stimulating week. I'm off to the ceilidh now - should be fun!
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