Bulletin from the National Forum for the Enhancement of Teaching and Learning in Higher Education

The December 2013 bulletin from the National Forum is now available - we will circulate a copy to our members via email in early January. 

In the meantime, the attention of members is drawn to the Forum's Seminar Series with a call for participation open. UPDATE: the closing date for the Seminar Series call has been extended to 22nd January 2014 - further details are on the Forum's website.

Irish Network for the Enhancement of Writing (INEW) Workshop and Discussion Forum – Supporting Postgraduate Writers 

Monday 16th December, 11am-3pm, DIT Mount Street 

This workshop is aimed at educators working with postgraduate student writers and will explore initiatives/ideas to help support postgraduates in their writing endeavours.

Agenda: 

Coffee will be served from 10.30
11.00 Claire McAvinia and Roisin Donnelly (DIT): The story so far: supervising postgraduate writers at DIT 11.45 Helen Fallon (NUIM): Five ways to increase the visibility and impact of your research and publications
12.30 Lunch
13.15 Exploring different formats for supporting postgraduate writing

1. Writing-for-publication programmes (Ciara O’Farrell, TCD) 
2. Ph.D. Writers’ Week (Lawrence Cleary and Íde O’Sullivan, UL) 
3. Writers’ groups (Ciara O’Farrell, TCD) 

14.15 Writers’ retreats using visualisation (Terry Barrett, UCD)
14.45 INEW business

To register for the workshop, RSVP by Thursday 12th December to ide.osullivan@ul.ie.