26th September 2022

WRITESPACE STUDIO 26TH SEPTEMBER 2022

Please introduce yourself by telling us where you live (country, city/state/region) and what kind of writing you do.    

Vicky Holmes: hello! Vicky from Essex, UK. Working on my second history monograph.

Amy Lewis: Amy, from New Zealand. Currently studying a masters in Edinburgh, I do academic writing. :)

James Corazzo: James, Stockport, UK. Writes about design education.

Anita Campbell: Anita, Cape Town, academic writing on student success with a focus on engineering mathematics and positive psychology

Niamh O’Reilly: Good morning everyone, I'm Niamh and writing from Dublin Ireland. I am currently writing my PhD.

Abigail Lewis: Hi from whadjak noongar boodjar, Perth WA on Noongar land. I'm writing a systematic literature review for my PhD. Topic: professional identity formation in allied health.

Ramón Menéndez: Hi, I'm Ramón Menéndez, in Melbourne (Australia, Wurundjeri country). I do sociological academic writing.

Bring our voices into the room: What is the weather like today where you are?

Warm up: Write a poem or piece of prose about time. If time were alive, what would it look like; how would it behave?

Amy Lewis: For me, time is a shapeshifting creature. It morphs from young to old, it is enigmatic, hard to pin down, inevitable yet elusive. Time is not trustworthy and you must bargain with it.

Vicky Holmes: Time is a tortoise on roller-skates: both slow and speedy. I'm going to collage my tortoise when I get a moment this week :)

Abigail Lewis: Time I like a spiral, getting faster and faster, how to catch time, slow it down, be intentional and treasure time

Niamh O’Reilly: Time as elastic

James Corazzo: Irradiance time. Hand time. Tense time. Ruptured time. Red time. Spotty time. Line time. Ragged time. (Based on a quick collage I just did).

Pre-pomodoro: What do you plan to work on?

Abigail Lewis: sys lit review introduction - why I chose allied health

Vicky Holmes: editing some of my chapter on Victorian lodgers

Anita Campbell: An abstract for a paper

Ramón Menéndez: I’m working on a very early stage of an abstract that I plan to submit to a conference.

Niamh O’Reilly: I plan to write a part of my chapter on signalised junctions and their impact on cycling safety.

James Corazzo: Revisiting a description of “informal learning” for a book I am co-authoring.

Post-pomodoro: What did you achieve?

Vicky Holmes: good, working on my opening sentences to get this chapter structured

Abigail Lewis: Got a few new bits written

Ramón Menéndez: I re-drafted what I wrote this morning (for my abstract)

Anita Campbell: Mostly reading driven by the call for papers
Niamh O’Reilly: I wrote part of the paragraph, but more work to be done. I have more clarity of how I will structure the paragraph.

WINDOW session:  Describe one thing you learnt or discussed.

Abigail Lewis: Think about what the audience knows and doesn't know

Aimee Brown: Note repetitions

Vicky Holmes: sometimes it’s just good to chat about productivity and writing

Niamh O’Reilly: Takeaway about how to be clearer in the way I describe my results.

Amy Lewis: New ideas! very helpful to have fresh perspectives

Ramón Menéndez: What does 'this' refer to?

James Corazzo: I received a compliment : ) about use of a metaphor, and I enjoyed a discussion that troubled the idea of “locals”

1 word poem

The Wilderness: Teacup bones, (In)authentic time, Abstract lodgings

*Amy hosted this session as Helen was in the New Zealand wilderness.