Deadline: Monday 23rd August
September 2021 Creativity and Community Writing Retreat: Call for Applicants
We are delighted to announce the researcher-led Creativity and Community Writing Retreat taking place at Lane End Conference Centre in High Wycombe from 13th-17th September.
Participants of the retreat will be supported in exploring their sense of identity as an academic writer - what helps and hinders them - and will have the chance to share experiences, tips and reflections with their peers. Alongside this, there will be opportunities for peer support, creative engagement, networking and socialising in order to build connections and community with other researchers following a particularly challenging few years. We will be joined by Kim Lasky, writer and Associate Researcher with the School of Global Studies at the University of Sussex, who holds a Creative Writing doctorate and who emphasises the value of writing retreats away from the distractions of home and university. This retreat will provide a chance for doctoral researchers to gather and work together after a period of 18 months of restrictions put in place by the Covid-19 pandemic.
Applications are open to CHASE and non-CHASE funded students who are at a latter stage of their research (third year onwards) and are working in the fields of Media and Film, broadly defined. We especially encourage BME and other underrepresented groups (disabled, LGBTQIA, working class, non-EU international students) to apply. Applicants are invited to write a short statement describing why you are applying for this retreat and what you believe you will get out of the experience. Accommodation, catering and travel will be covered should you be successful in your application. Attendees will be expected to attend all sessions as part of the programme.
Please see below link to apply:
Deadline for applications is Monday 23rd August.
All applicants will be informed of the status of their application by Friday 27th August.
Any questions, please contact one of the lead organisers (Baljit Kaur - b.kaur@sussex.ac.uk or Kate Meakin - km506@sussex.ac.uk).
University of Sussex Organisers:
Manuela Salazar
Katharina Hendrickx
Amelia Crowther
Baljit Kaur
Kate Meakin
