19th Mar 2019 10:00am - 20th Mar 2019 4:30pm 

Venue: Royal Holloway, 11 Bedford Square, London, WC1B 3RF

Booking: to book please email techne@rhul.ac.uk

Dates: Tuesday 19^th March, Wednesday 20^th March and Tuesday 16^th April 2019 (i.e. two consecutive days, then one day a month later) - you must be able to attend all three dates.

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

 

This three-day retreat offers a chance for Y3 PhD students to re-energise their writing process, re-examine their writing habits and boost their writing confidence.

Day 1 (19th March) 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 (20th March) offers

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

Day 3 (16th April) 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.