Online Writing Retreat for PhD Students

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Finding time in your diary as well as the motivation to fulfill all of your academic writing commitments can be challenging. One way to help you to focus on whatever writing task you need to complete is to attend a writing retreat. This online writing retreat is designed to provide you with clearly structured sessions for writing, useful techniques to get you started and mindfulness activities to ease you through the more emotional aspects of writing. You will also be asked to set specific, achievable writing targets for the retreat, which you will share with other attendees. The process of declaring your targets in this way helps to motivate you to actually achieve them.

All PhD Students, all disciplines
Further details regarding eligibility criteria are available here.

The retreat will be valuable for any PhD student who has a specific piece of writing to work on. It will be especially useful for students who find writing rather daunting or who struggle to complete written task on time.

This course will be facilitated online via Zoom, so please ensure you have access.

Number of sessions: 2

• To provide guidance on valuable writing strategies for producing a coherent piece of academic text
• To offer mental space for you to focus on a specific piece of academic writing
• To suggest useful strategies to pre-empt and/or overcome some of the emotional aspects of writing, such as writer’s block
• To motivate you to set a clear writing target and to achieve it in the course of the retreat
• To help you to identify the next steps you need to take after the retreat

Online webinar with structured offline writing sessions and online group activities

This course runs over two days, participants are expected to attend both sessions, as follows:
Day 1: 28 July 2021 - 10am-4pm
Day 2: 29 July 2021 - 9:30am-5.30pm