Led by Dr Helen Kara, this practical workshop will enable you to explore different aspects of the writing process, writing strategies and will be a chance for you to do some PhD writing. It is tailored specifically for Arts, Design & Media PhD researchers in the early to mid-stages of their research.

Here’s what some our researcher’s have said in the past:

Helen was so much fun and shared so much with us … she tapped into my most intimate fears about showing people my words and putting them out for (my perceived) judgement.

The workshop was great – I thought Helen’s advice was superb and most importantly it was great to meet people at the same stage of their PhD.

Today has been brilliant. I wrote 3100 words across the writing sessions which is unheard of for me!! Really useful to get tips of day to day writing as well.

This event will take place on The PGR Studio Teams channel.

*** Due to the pandemic, this writing retreat will take place virtually over three consecutive days and at different times to accommodate those in different timezones ***

Wednesday 04/11/2020 10:00-12:00

Thursday 05/11/2020 12:00-14:00

Friday 06/11/2020 10:00-12:00

About the workshop facilitator: Dr Helen Kara has been an independent researcher since 1999. She is particularly interested in research methods, which she writes about and teaches to practitioners and postgraduate research students. She is author of both Creative Research Methods in the Social Sciences: A Practical Guide (2015) and Research and Evaluation for Busy Practitioners (2012). Helen is also a Visiting Fellow at the UK National Centre for Research Methods, a Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences and is on the Board of the UK and Ireland Social Research Association.