These sessions are being run in January and February by the Skills Centre and will be bookable via UniHub (links below). In these collaborative online sessions, you will share a sample of your work in progress and gain practical tips and advice from two other doctoral researchers and an Academic Skills Advisor. By acting … Continue reading Doctoral Skills Session: Feedback Seminars for Doctoral Researchers
Doctoral Skills session: Feedback seminars for Doctoral Researchers These sessions are being run in January and February by the Skills Centre and will be bookable via UniHub (links below). In these collaborative online sessions, you will share a sample of your work in progress and gain practical tips and advice from two other … Continue reading Doctoral Skills Session: Feedback Seminars for Doctoral Researchers
These sessions are being run in January and February by the Skills Centre and will be bookable via UniHub (links below). In these collaborative online sessions, you will share a sample of your work in progress and gain practical tips and advice from two other doctoral researchers and an Academic Skills Advisor. By acting … Continue reading Doctoral Skills Session: Feedback Seminars for Doctoral Researchers
For staff and doctoral researchers: In this session we will cover issues such as copyright, embargoes, and publishing work based on your thesis and how these affect adding a thesis to the archive. Book via UniHub Further information via https://libguides.shu.ac.uk/researchsupport/events
For staff and doctoral researchers: This introductory session covers important issues to consider when getting published, particularly focusing on choosing where to publish. Book via UniHub Further information via https://libguides.shu.ac.uk/researchsupport/events
James will explore the processes of researching and writing historical fiction, and talk about his ongoing passion for the Middle Ages and eleventh-century England in particular – from early encounters whilst studying History at Cambridge, to writing four novels set during the period (with a fifth currently in progress). Drawing upon examples from his published … Continue reading Creative Writing Masterclass | James Aitcheson: Writing the Middle Ages
'Have you considered telling your story from two different viewpoints? Or from the point of view of the same character but at different times in their life? Whether you’re considering a dual narrative or not, there will be something for you in this masterclass as we look at character and voice along with the pros and … Continue reading Creative Writing Masterclass | Susan Elliot Wright: Dual Narratives
Nicola Chester learned to love nature early, but soon discovered that it could be taken from her. On Gallows Down: Place, Protest and Belonging is a lyrical, powerful memoir charting her fight to save the wild places she calls home. She advocates passionately for the force of writing as resistance and for the importance of … Continue reading Creative Writing Masterclass | Nicola Chester – In Conversation with Joanna Dobson
Session delivered by Kristin Solli, OsloMet – Oslo Metropolitan University A substantial literature documents doctoral education as a “journey” and a “becoming” involving a transformation of self (Barnacle, 2005; Barnacle & Mewburn; Carlino, 2012; Lee, 2010 & 2011; Wisker, 2016). Writing has been seen as a key site for such transformation. As Kamler & … Continue reading SERI: Transformation and Preservation: Examining the Experiences of Doctoral Researchers with Professional Backgrounds Writing for Publication
Euan is a highly experienced agent with one of the oldest agencies in the UK. He will talk about being a literary agent and how to seek representation with a literary agent. “Unearthing a gem of a novel or an idea that no-one else has spotted, developing an author into a household name, or … Continue reading Creative Writing Masterclass: Euan Thorneycroft, Literary Agent from A M Heath|