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Writing Retreats with Prof. Rowena Murray
9am-5pm, Wednesday 16 January 2019, Marine Dove Lab
9am-5pm, Wednesday 22 May 2019, Marine Dove Lab
Aims
To provide dedicated writing time and develop productive writing practices and discussions around writing-in-progress.
Format
This structured retreat uses the ‘typing pool’ model. We all write in the same room, for fixed time slots, using goal-setting and use peer and self-monitoring to progress our individual writing projects. Because we’re all in the same room, we can discuss our goals at the start and end of the day (10-15 minutes). Almost all retreat time is writing time.
Programme
- 8:45 - Arrival and setup
- 9:00 - Introductions and writing warm up
- 9:30 - Writing
- 11:00 - Break
- 11:30 - Writing
- 12.30 - Lunch
- 1.30 - Writing
- 3.00 - Break
- 3.30 - Writing
- 4.30 - Planning next steps
Preparing for the Writing Retreat
- Choose a writing project (article, chapter, grant)
- Research journal/publisher/funder and topic before the Writing Retreat.
Facilitation
Prof Rowena Murray (School of Education at the University of North West Scotland) will facilitate and can suggest strategies for making this approach work (getting started quickly, keeping writing going and pacing)
Pre-Retreat reading
- Murray, R. and Newton, M. (2009) Writing retreat for academics: margin or mainstream?, Higher Education Research and Development, 28(5): 541-53.
- Also see short videos of retreat participants at anchorage-education.co.uk.
Learning objectives
- Understand the Structured Writing Retreat model.
- Structure a writing day.
- Maintain well-being during intensive periods of writing.
PoST Networking Talk with Prof. Sally Brown
1pm-3:30pm, Wednesday 20 March 2019, Room 3.38, Armstrong Building
Previous Events
- Wednesday 12 September 2018 - PoST Launch with Prof Pauline Kneale (PVC at Plymouth) and Dr Sarah Dyer (Director of the Exeter Education Incubator)
- Thursday 8 November 2018 - PoST Publishing Talk with Dr Cathy Bovill (Institute for Academic Development at Edinburgh University)
WriteClub Events
Conversazione
Wednesday 1 May 2019 at 13:00 in King George VI Building, Room 1.43B
An informal discussion on pedagogy in higher education with Professor Colin Bryson, Newcastle University, and Professor Sally Brown, Independent Consultant
This conversazione offers an informal opportunity to hear from two extensively published authors in the field of learning, teaching and assessment in a semi-structured conversation. Each will outline how they got started in writing for publication, including discussion of their rationales for the kinds of publications they have produced, and the impact this has had on their careers and on colleagues around them.
Colin and Sally will make suggestions for those newly embarking in writing and publishing on higher education pedagogy. They will illustrate their perspectives from their publication journeys with anecdotes and stories about mishaps and pitfalls on the way, in ways that will help others avoid their mistakes and move on with their own publications confidently.