Category: Lancaster

Learning to write as an academic

The following are the slides for a seminar I delivered today with my colleague Karin Tusting as part of the Dynamics of Knowledge Creation project. The session was entitled ‘Learning to write as academic’. We had a useful discussion about the self-management of ongoing ‘on the job’ learning […]

CGHE seminar slides

I was pleased to recently participate in a seminar with my project team, hosted by the Centre For Global & Higher Education. The slides are below: Our next event is entitled ‘Learning to write as an academic‘, the slides for which will be posted next week. More detailed […]

SRHE conference papers

I enjoyed delivering two papers at this year’s SRHE conference at Celtic Manor in Newport (Wales), the first of which was on my research of student assignment writing and the second on the Academics’ Writing project. The Prezi for the first one is here (unable to embed in […]

Conference paper: Being an academic

This is the second conference paper that I will be delivering at the SRHE Annual Conference this December in Newport: Being an academic: The changing writing practices of academics and how they influence professional identity Keywords: academic writing, higher education, literacies, ethnography, knowledge creation Abstract This paper explores […]