Presenters: Lynne Elliot (LSTM) and Dr Shirley Cooper, LDC Development Team

These half day writing retreats will take place online on all Tuesday mornings, 9:45 - 12:00 pm in the period June - August 2020. All postgraduate researchers are welcome to join us at any upcoming event.You only need sign up once here, and then you will receive regular invitations to all upcoming events. (If you have signed up to the previous list, for retreats in April, June you will still continue to receive emails and you do not need to sign up again).

Over the summer, we are hosting the writing retreats on all Tuesday mornings in Aug and fortnightly on the 8th and 22nd Sept

What are online writing retreats?

Often the most challenging aspect of thesis writing, or any other writing for that matter, is finding the time and space to sit down and focus on doing the actual writing. A writing retreat is simply designated time and space away from your normal workplace where you and others can focus on writing and nothing else.

During the period of Covid-19 we will need to meet virtually, but we hope that by setting out specific and protected time for writing, the session can provide structure and a degree of community support;

By meeting regularly we can gain mutual support through discussing our personal difficulties in writing in this current period

- We can share good tips in writing practice

- And the meetings can provide some peer accountability that will help us avoid the distractions of email, social media, the internet, impending meetings, tea making, paper-clip sorting, desk cleaning,

Previous participants have said:

‘I found that without interruptions, my productivity went up.’

‘I have had trouble focussing on my work recently and feel that attending the workshops would make me set aside time for writing/planning my project.’

‘It enabled me to work better on my writing tasks as I had peers around me doing the same thing in a quiet and conducive environment.’

Single registration system: To manage this process, and make the arrangements easy for you and for us, we will use just one sign-up form in Eventbrite. By signing up to this list once, you will gain advance notification when new dates are planned for the retreats and timely reminders of each event. Two emails, a reminder the day before, and information to logon to the meet, will be sent for each event, and maybe ignored if you do not wish to attend on that date.

This registration simply provides us with an email list to keep you informed of these events and you may choose whether to attend on a regular basis or once every few months. We do not expect you to attend all events!If you no longer wish to receive these emails, please cancel your registration on this event listing.

This session offers opportunities to gain skills/behaviours outlined in the following Researcher Development Framework (RDF) subdomains: A3 Creativity, A2 Cognitive abilities, B1 Personal qualities, B2 Self-management, B3 Professional and career development, D2 Communication.

Registration: You are recommended to use your University of Liverpool email to register on Eventbrite and then the calendar invitation will be added to your University calendar. We reserve the right to remove registrations of attendees who do not appear to be members of this University.

Online Writing Retreats Summer 2020