The Blog
This is blog supports the Annual Writing Project at the University of Gloucestershire. The annual Writing Project is designed and managed by the Pedagogic Research and Scholarship Institute and is fully funded and available to Gloucestershire academics by application. Other institutions may sned acadmics by arrangement. For information contact PRSI.
The Writing Project
The Project begins in the spring, when a group of academics with writing project get together and start working on their projects in parallel. There is a Writing Retreat in June when the whole group go away for two days to work intensively on their projects. The Project than provides support to the participants, including two meetings in the autumn. The aim is to have all participants working in parallel forming a community of practice and mutual support and working towards completing each writing project by December.
This blog is intended to provide support, with comments, useful resources and information for the project. It is written specifically for the Writing Project participants, but may be of use to others interested in academic writing. It is written and managed by Kenny Lynch for PRSI. If you like the views expressed here then they are attributable to PRSI, if you don’t like them, blame it on Kenny. The views are not attirbutable to the University of Gloucestershire.
The Images
All the images on this blog have been sourced with intellectual property rights in mind. Most have been sourced using flickrCC a site that provides dedicated searches of Flickr, the photo sharing site, including only images that the owners have flagged as available for using for non-commercial use. I have credited the originator in the blog where they are used and provided a link to the original location.
Hello to all, having never posted to a blog before I thought I’d give it a go as some of you at the Writing Retreat said you would like to hear when I submitted my PhD thesis. Well, happily, it’s done! Submitted on 1st July.
Oddly, I submitted on the same day as I presented the paper I was working on at the Retreat, at the World Archaeology Congress. It was really positively received and as a result of the paper I have some collaborative work with an osteologist from County Cork. I’m now going to be working with him on the paper to get it published, bringing a really helpful ‘practice’ angle to it. It also generated interest from some Native American archaeologists from the Smithsonian Institute working on the repatriation of human remains. So seems to be a good advert for getting my research ‘out there’!
I have to admit, I’ve not done any writing on it since (taking a rest after the exhausting submission). Am looking forward to the next Writing Group meeting, as the Retreat was so encouraging, to keep me going with it
Hope everyone’s writing is going well.
Wendelin