The workshops

• Doctoral students at all stages of their candidature
• Usually 2-3 full days or 4-6 half day sessions

These workshops address the complex challenges students face in becoming scholarly, authoritative writers. Practical strategies and rich examples are used to help workshop participants gain better control of commonly encountered writing tasks, such as the literature review and constructing the dissertation argument. Participants are encouraged to use excerpts from their writing and workshop exercises allow them to refine their work utilising the strategies learned.

• Doctoral students at all stages of candidature
• Usually a minimum of 3 half day sessions

These workshops recognise the increasing pressure doctoral students face to have both a publication record and a thesis by the time they graduate. The goal is for participants to develop a draft article that can be submitted to an international peer reviewed journal during candidature. Workshop activities demystify the journal review process and help participants re-contextualise their dissertation work for a wider journal readership.

• Early career academics
• Usually a minimum of 4 half day sessions

These workshops are designed to help early career academics produce quality writing for high profile international journals. Participants will develop a strategic publication plan and then work on one article so that it is ready to submit to a target journal. The workshops will develop a guided process of peer-review which provides detailed feedback on drafts-in-progress and builds a lively research culture among those who participate.

• Early career academics who have completed their PhD
• Usually a longer term project requiring a number of interventions throughout a year

These workshops are designed for scholars who are under pressure to build a publication track record, in order to become competitive for research grants and other rewards of a productive research life. Participants are guided to develop a thesis publication plan which targets the most appropriate journals. Workshop exercises and feedback on drafts-in-progress assist participants to develop scholarly writing techniques and publication know-how.

• Early career supervisors
• Usually a minimum of 3 half-day sessions, held monthly to allow for writing tasks to be completed between sessions

These workshops are designed for new supervisors who have recently completed their doctorates and who may also need to build their own writing and publication profile. Participants will be guided to use practical strategies that help students (and themselves) write more persuasively and to develop a linguistic tool kit that facilitates student revision.

• Early/mid career academics who need to expand their publication profile
• Usually a minimum of 4 half day sessions

These workshops are designed to help academics with high teaching loads and few publications write quality research articles based on their teaching. Expert input is given on possible journals and genres for show-casing the scholarship of teaching, on how to link teaching innovations to broader debates and build a track record from completed grants.

Professor Kamler facilitates events where supervisors, early career academics and/or doctoral students gather to spend intensive periods of time developing articles for publication and/or presenting their drafts-in-progress for public feedback and critique. The format and content of the facilitated sessions are tailored to meet the specific requirements of universities.