• Have more of your work read by wider audiences; in other words impact.
• By providing an intense two-day experience the playing field is levelled and opportunities for facilitated learning developed.
• By engaging in creative writing, it becomes possible for all to write more clearly, more simply, even more creatively, when writing not only for academic publications, but also for outlets previously unimagined.

This unique event isn’t a typical “writing retreat” (with trees to hug and lots of time to ruminate), but a very active experience with exercises, suggestions and supportive feedback on participants’ work from Kip Jones and other participants. 

Students and academics will be encouraged to include more creative writing in their outputs, particularly those whose writing includes reporting on narrative and other qualitative methods of research.  

The workshop will also help with publishing in the wider world of blogs and online outlets, moving work to media and film, auto-ethnography and even fiction.

Workshop objectives

•  Have more of your work read by wider audiences; in other words, impact. 
•  By providing an intense two-day experience the playing field is levelled and 
  opportunities for facilitated learning developed. 
•  By engaging in creative writing, it becomes possible for all to write more clearly, more simply, even more creatively, when writing not only for academic publications, but also for outlets previously unimagined. 

Methods

The workshop presents opportunities to work with academic material and expand its means of production and dissemination to new and creative levels through interfaces with techniques from the arts and humanities,including:

•  Blog and magazine writing
•  Film treatments and scripts
•  Poetry and fictional exercises.

Biography: Kip Jones, BA MSc PhD

Kip Jones BA MSc PhD is Director of the Centre for Qualitative Research in the Faculties of Media & Communication and Health & Social Sciences at BU. Jones has produced films, videos and audio productions and has written many articles for academic journals and authored Chapters in books on topics such as masculinity, ageing and rurality, and older LGBT citizens. His groundbreaking use of qualitative methods, including biography and auto-ethnography, and the use of tools from the arts in social science research and dissemination, are distinguished internationally. 

You can read all about the last workshop here.