Year 3 Three-Day Writing Retreat 

9th Mar 2020 10:30am - 10th Mar 2020 4:30pm 

Venue on 9th & 10th March: Cumberland Lodge (a short taxi ride from Egham or Windsor railway stations)

Venue on 2nd April: 11 Bedford Square

This writing retreat is for Techne students in the third year of their PhD.

This three-day retreat (with Anne Wilson and Katie Grant, RLF Consultant Fellows and FHEA) offers a chance for Y3 PhD students to re-energise their writing process, re-examine their writing habits and boost their writing confidence. There are two intial days (9th and 10th March at Cumberland Lodge) with a follow up day a month later (2nd April in central London) - please note you need to commit to attending all three days.

Day 1 offers

• mutual support for those at same stage of writing

• activities and ideas to help overcome obstacles both practical (writing habits) and emotional (feelings about yourself and your work)
  
  

Day 2 offers

• Timed writing sessions, plus one-to-one sessions with Anne or Katie
  
  

Day 3 (follow-up day) is a chance to bring participants back together in a mutually supportive space, to

• reinforce techniques with practical activities

• share progress and problems

• bolster confidence to go forward and complete

   

  Katie Grant co-created the Advancing Academic Writing skills website for the University of Glasgow, where she was the Royal Literary Fund Writing Fellow for three years, helping undergraduates, Masters and PhD students with their writing. A columnist, occasional broadcaster, author of ten novels (Sedition, her latest, is published by Virago), on the panel of judges for the Walter Scott Prize for Historical Fiction, an occasional book reviewer for, amongst other publications, the New York Times and a Fellow of the Higher Education Academy, she runs writing workshops on improving the quality, reach and impact of academic writing for all levels of HE. Long experience of the practical, emotional and organisational challenges of writing for deadlines and for different audiences informs all her workshops. She understands from first-hand the value of getting writing done and getting it done well.

  Anne Wilson has a background in journalism (features) and corporate communication (scripts, speeches, screen media copy), combining her writing with facilitating writing workshops in HE. A Fellow of the Higher Education Academy, she was Royal Literary Fund Fellow at Brunel University for three years, and now runs workshops on academic writing and professional communication for postgraduates and staff at Brunel and other universities. She also coaches students for the 3MT competition (won by Brunel in 2017). She has collaborated with the Brunel Occupational Therapy department to investigate what kind of feedback helps students to improve their academic writing and is currently running staff and student workshops on managing feelings about feedback.