Building on the success of the recent publication Women Writing Socially in Academia: Dispatches from Writing Rooms, this workshop seeks to address specifically gendered anxieties about writing for researchers from postgraduate through to professors. This workshop defines ‘woman’ as being inclusive of trans femme, genderqueer and non-binary identities. Please register free at https://womenwritingsocially.eventbrite.co.uk (very limited places).
This workshop offers a chance to build ongoing communities of praxis and support, and to address discipline-agnostic anxieties around academic writing. It is also a chance to have fun. Folx from all stages of academic career from postgrad onwards are welcome.
Participants will spend a morning building on ideas about their own research practice, and workshopping their attitudes and anxieties towards writing, culminating in a short form creative output such as a zine or vision board.
Lunch will be provided and a writing workshop offered in the afternoon to work on existing projects and learn from Professor Rowena Murray, author of multiple publications about writing, such as Writing for Academic Journals, The Handbook of Academic Writing: A Fresh Approach and Writing In Social Spaces: A Social Processes Approach to Academic Writing.
Small travel bursaries of £15 are available to support attendance for early career researchers, unwaged participants and postgraduates. The travel bursaries are at the discretion of the organisers and will be assessed on a needs basis, considering distance travelled and funding status. Please indicate on your Eventbrite registration if you wish to be considered for a bursary. All applications will be treated in confidence.
Agenda
Participants: please arrive 9.30am for 10am.
10am – 10.15am: Welcome session and introductions
10.15am – 10.45am: Blue Sky Exercise
10.45-11.30am: Getting Creative, A Hands On Exercise
11.30-12.00pm: Feedback and Reflection Session
12.00-1.00pm: Lunch (provided)
1.00-1.30pm: Introduction and remarks by Professor Rowena Murray
1.30-1.45pm: Goal Setting
1.45-2.45pm: Writing Session 1
2.45-3.15pm: Break
3.15-4.45pm: Writing Session 2
4.45-5.30pm: Feedback, Reflection, Intention Setting
Image: Petar Milošević, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons.
Accessibility:
This event will be held in the IASH Conference Room, on the ground floor. Level access is available throughout. An accessible toilet is located 10m from the Conference Room, through two doors. Please contact iash@ed.ac.uk if you have any queries about access.