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Target Audience: For academics, researchers, and knowledge exchange staff looking for protected time and space to work on writing.

This is a full weeklong fully online Zoom workshop - drop in or out as necessary

Sometimes, we all need a chance to break away from our normal routine. A writer's retreat is the perfect opportunity to spend some concentrated time on your writing. 

The Strathclyde Writing Retreat series supports participants wishing to make significant progress on writing projects by allowing sufficient time to immerse themselves in the writing activity and to benefit from peer support.  

Each Writing Retreat is a week-long structured event intended to provide participants with protected time and space in which to focus on meeting specific writing targets, encouraging time-on-task and providing a means of gauging progress. Where possible, participants will be able to contribute to disciplinary groups for discussion, feedback, and commentary. During the retreat, writers will also have the opportunity to obtain detailed feedback on their academic writing from the organiser, Dr Stuart Boon. 

Course Outcomes/Objectives;

• Protected time and space for writing to enable you to make significant progress 
• Structured focus on achieving specific writing targets 
• Opportunity for peer review / feedback 
• Work at your own pace in a supportive social writing environment 

Full Day/ Full Week - drop in or out as necessary

ACCESSIBILITY:

Online activity 

We are committed to ensuring our events and courses are accessible to all staff: 

The session will take place on Zoom 

• Auto-captions can be enabled 
• There will be limited audience participation 
• You may keep your camera off 
• You are asked to attend the whole session, but it’s fine if you need to dip in and out 
• Breaks will be self-regulated 
• The session is very informal and relaxed  

NB Please contact osdu-equity@strath.ac.uk to discuss any further access requirements 

Prerequisites

Cancellation Policy

When applying for a course, you should note that there will be a £50* to your department if you cancel within 5** working days or you do not attend, and a £25 charge for cancellations/ non-attendance between 6 and 10 working days. There will be no charge for cancellation made 10 or more working days before the event. Notifications should be made to OSDU@strath.ac.uk

A department is welcome to send someone else in your place if they wish without incurring a charge, providing that person has the necessary pre-requisites for the course. In the case of courses split over more than one day, you must attend ALL parts of the course. If you fail to attend any part you will be charged as outlined above.

*This is the standard charge for cancellation or non-attendance of course of 1 days duration or less. For some courses there may be a higher cancellation charge and if this is the case you will be advised of this at the time of booking.

**Any bookings made within 10 days of the event will incur the charges as specified.