Events

Other events

• Defend&Publish, an academic writing coaching company, is offering free webinars on writing project management, overcoming writer's block, and writing literature reviews. Registration is free, but sign up to reserve your spot for webinars in December and January.
• The Thriving Researcher offers virtual writing retreats for doctoral and post-doctoral researchers.
• Shut Up and Write! Meet up online with people from all over the world and then get some writing done.
• Writer's HQ offers frequent 'super-productive lockdown-friendly writing retreats.
• Writing Retreat Facilitator’s Guide
• The Oxford Centre for Life-Writing brings together events, podcasts, live life-writing, inspirational prompts and research.
• Chapelgarth Estate in Yorkshire offers academic writing retreats in beautiful surroundings, and virtual retreats for groups can also be booked.

List your writing retreat here! Email writinghub@brookes.ac.uk.

Past events

Getting over writer’s block

13 January 2021

What stops you from starting writing? This workshop started by focusing on identifying the many blocks to writing that keep you staring at a blank screen, and then offered multiple strategies for unblocking and engaging positively with writing.

Attendees had opportunities to discuss their own blocks to writing and ways of overcoming them; they were also provided with new strategies and useful sources for further reading.

Mary Davis holds a PhD in Education from IOE, University of London, for which she researched the development of source use in postgraduate student writing. She has conducted research into key aspects of academic writing, including the use of formulaic phrases, understanding plagiarism and the demystification of the writing process. She has personal experience of overcoming writer’s block, both as a student writer and in writing for publication, and she teaches academic writing to Pre-Master’s students in the Oxford Brookes Business School.

For a list of her publications, please click here.

• Getting over Writer's Block seminar recording »

Building Writing Muscle

21 October 2020

Dominik Lukeš, a Digital Learning Technologist at the Saïd Business School, University of Oxford, considered with us how deliberate practice can develop the complex skill of writing.

This seminar introduced the key concepts behind deliberate practice and applied these to our own writing processes and our support for others’ writing. He also explored several metaphors of writing which relate to how we practise.

• Building Writing Muscle seminar recording »
• Transcript from recording »