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span style="font-size:12pt\;">14.00 –
14.10 \n
| \n \n Welcome \n | \n
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n 14.10 – 15.00<
/p>\n | \n \n Beyond the sol
itary scholar - Pejman Habibie (10 mins) \n \n The emotional la
bour of collaborative academic writing - Verity Ai
ken (10 mins)\n \n Writing Together: A critical perspective on
writing with others - Ron Scapp (10 mins)<
/span> \n \n Panel discussi
on (20 mins) \n | \n
\n \n | \n 15.00 – 15.10
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n Break \n
| \n
\n \n | \n 15.10 – 16.10
\n | \n \n <
p>Writi
ng without borders: reflections on co-authoring wi
th international students - Tina Byrom (15 mins pl
us 5 min Q&A)\n \n Pitfalls\, pleasures and partnerships: jour
neys in collaborative writing - Jonathan Parker (1
5 mins plus 5 min Q&A)
\n \n Our connected experiences: account
s of writing underpinned by technology - Lydia Arn
old (15 mins plus 5 min Q&A)<
/span> \n | \n
\n \n
| \n 16.10 – 16.20 \n | \n
\n Break
\n | \n
\n \n | \n 16.20 – 17
.10 \n \n | \n An ecosyste
m for collaborative writing in academia: what init
iates and sustains it? - Tanya Hathaway and Namrat
a Rao (10 mins)
\n \n Growing community outside the academy wal
ls - Kate Sotejeff-Wilson (10 mins) \n \n Hand-forged
texts and ties with writers: studying meanings as
sociated with social academic writing - Camilla Li
ndholm and Emilia Luukka (10 mins) \n \n Panel discussion (20 m
ins)
\n <
/td>\n |
\n \n \n \n
\n \n Speaker bios
\n \n Verity Aiken is senior lecturer in E
ducation and the Director of Doctoral Programmes i
n Social Sciences at Nottingham Trent University.
Verity’s research explores the contextual factors
that shape writing experiences and her work contri
butes to the development of writing pedagogies des
igned to support scholarly writing and writing for
publication. She has a series of publications tha
t discuss topics such as writing mentorship framew
orks (in P. Habibie and R. Kohls (Eds)\, Narrative
s and practices of mentorship in scholarly publica
tion\, 2024) and slow scholarship practices for wo
men writers (in A. K. Hultgren and P. Habibie (Eds
)\, Women in scholarly publishing: a gender perspe
ctive\, 2024) that build on earlier work concerned
with the complexities of writer identities and sh
ifting motivations for writing. Verity is also a S
enior Fellow of the Higher Education Academy.
\n \n Lydia Arno
ld is Professor of Learning and Teaching and Associa
te Pro-Vice-Chancellor at Harper Adams University\
, where she has responsibility for curriculum\, di
gital learning\, academic professional development
\, and the scholarship of learning and teaching. S
he has a longstanding interest in assessment desig
n\, learning technologies\, and action research as
a form of professional development. She is a blog
ger\; her current blog has been active since 2009.
She is also active on social media platforms and
speaks regularly at learning and teaching conferen
ce events. Recent publications include ‘Is it time to stop talking about
authentic assessment?’ written with James Cro
xford\, and ‘Lessons l
earned from enabling large-scale assessment change
: a collaborative autoethnographic study’ in c
ollaboration with Sam Elkington\, Edd Pitt and Car
men Thomas.
\n \n Tina Byrom is Head of Enhanced Academic Practic
e at Loughborough University and has worked in edu
cation for 30 years across both the compulsory and
post-compulsory sectors. She has extensive exper
ience in lecturing and tutoring in research method
s\, education and social policy and social justice
. Tina’s research interests include widening parti
cipation\, student voice\, education policy\, repr
oduction of inequality\, vulnerable and disadvanta
ged groups and qualitative methods. She has led an
d contributed to high profile social research stud
ies including teenage pregnancy\, homelessness amo
ngst young people and young people’s transitions i
nto higher education. She has numerous publication
s addressing social justice in education in additi
on to those that focus on HE pedagogy (e.g. Byrom\
, 2023\; Byrom\, Wong and Boulton\, 2019\; Yuen\,
Boulton and Byrom\, 2019). Beyond academia\, Tina
provides strategic leadership as a non-executive D
irector (current Board Chair) at the National Ice
Centre\, and Chair of Trustees at Stone Soup Acade
my\, Nottingham
\n \n Dr Pejman Habibie serves as an Assistant Pr
ofessor in the Faculty of Education at Western Uni
versity\, Canada where he instructs graduate cours
es in Curriculum Studies and Studies in Applied Li
nguistics. As a founding co-editor of both the Jou
rnal of English for Research Publication Purposes
and the Routledge Studies in English for Research
Publication Purposes book series\, Dr. Habibie is
an influential voice in the field of English for R
esearch Publication Purposes. His research interes
ts encompass the geopolitics\, socio-economics\, a
nd scientometrics of knowledge construction and di
ssemination\, the impact of generative artificial
intelligence (GAI) on the global knowledge economy
\, and academic literacies. Dr. Habibie’s scholars
hip has been featured in renowned international jo
urnals\, including The Annual Review of Applied
Linguistics\, The Journal of Second Langua
ge Writing\, and Research Methods in Applie
d Linguistics\, as well as through several aut
hored and edited books. He has also presented his
work to broader audiences as a keynote speaker and
presenter at prestigious international conference
s\, including NYS TESOL\, TESOL\, the American Ass
ociation for Applied Linguistics (AAAL)\, Writing
across Borders (WRAB)\, and Symposium on Second La
nguage Writing (SSLW).
\n \n Tanya Hathaway <
span style="font-size:11pt\;">is a member of facult
y at the School of Doctoral Studies at Unicaf Univ
ersity\, where she supervises international doctor
al students. She is a Se
nior Fellow of the Higher Education Academy
. Her contrib
ution to educational research is diverse\, includi
ng policy analysis and empirical studies in early
childhood to teaching and learning in higher educa
tion and recent agendas\, including the notion of
teaching excellence and Higher Education’s respons
e to crises. She has particular interest and exper
ience in working with students across all continen
ts in distance and online education. Her experienc
e of teaching and research in higher education spa
ns 19 years\, undertaken in the UK\, Australia and
the international Higher Education sector. Her te
aching has focused predominately on graduate educa
tion\, leading and designing master’s level progra
mmes with a focus on quality teaching and professi
onal learning. Her recent publications include a c
o-edited book with Nova Publications on Multili
ngual Early Childhood Education: Modern Approaches
and Research (2024) and A word to the wise
(gair i gall): university teacher educators’ expe
riences of emergency response pedagogy in Wales (2024).
\n
\n Camilla Lindholm is P
rofessor of Nordic Languages at Tampere University
. Her main research areas are linguistic accessibi
lity\, Easy Language\, and interaction. With co-a
uthor Johanna Isosävi\, she has published two book
s in Finnish: Väitöksen jälkeen: opas akateemis
elle uralle (‘After the PhD: An Academic Caree
r Guide’\, 2021) and Yhteisöllisen kirjoittamis
en opas (‘A Guide to Social Writing’\, 2023).
She is also a writing retreat facilitator.
\n \n Emili
a Luukka is a doctoral researcher at Tampere U
niversity. Her research publications have focused
on literature in foreign language education\, scho
ol safety culture and social academic writing. Of
particular interest for her have been the study of
conceptions\, experience and aspects of culture w
ithin these fields. She has also facilitated socia
l academic writing groups.
\n \n Jonathan Parker Pr
of. Dr. Jonathan Parker PhD\, MA\, BA (Hons) CQSW\
, FAcSS\, FJUC\, FHEA\, FRSA\, Health Sciences Uni
versity UK\, is Professor Emeritus at Bournemouth
University\, and Honorary Professor at University
of Stavanger\, Norway. He has published widely (ov
er 200 scholarly papers and chapters and 43 books)
: on disadvantage\, marginalization\, violence\, s
ocial work and welfare education. He is author of
the best-selling book Social Work Practice
(SAGE\, 2025) and series editor for the highly suc
cessful Transforming Social Work Practice s
eries (SAGE).
\n \n Namrata
Rao is a Professor of Education and Associate Dean
(Student Experience) at Liverpool Hope University
where she coordinates the School of Education’s po
stgraduate taught programmes. Her key areas of res
earch include (but are not restricted to) various
aspects of learning and teaching in higher educati
on that influence academic identity and academic p
ractice. She is a Senior Fellow of the Higher Educ
ation Academy\, Vice Chair of the British Associat
ion of International and Comparative Education\, m
ember of Society for Research in Higher Education’
s (SRHE) Research and Development Committee and co
-convenor of SRHE’s Learning\, Teaching and Assess
ment Network. Her research has been funded by org
anisations such as the EPSRC\, HEA (now Advance HE
)\, Jisc\, SEDA\, SRHE\, ALDinHE\, BAICE and BELMA
S. Her recent publications include co-edited books
with Bloomsbury on the experiences of Internat
ional Academics 2018) and Early Career Acad
emics (2021) and three further books on Lea
dership in Learning and Teaching published by
Bloomsbury and Routledge.
\n \n Ron Scapp is the founding
director of the Graduate Program of Urban and Mul
ticultural Education at the University of Mount Sa
int Vincent in the Bronx (New York City) where he
is also professor of humanities and teacher educat
ion. His books include Teaching Values: Critical P
erspectives on Education\, Politics and Culture (R
outledge) and. A Question of Voice: Philosophy and
the Search for Legitimacy\, (University of Michig
an Press)\, which received the “Outstanding Book A
ward” in 2021 from the Association for Ethnic Stud
ies.
\n \n <
p><
span style="font-family:Calibri\, sans-serif\;">Ka
te Sotejeff-Wilson (PhD UCL 2005) midwifes texts for
academics and the arts. She translates into and e
dits in English at KSW Translations\, runs Ridge Writing Retr
eats\, and chairs Nordic Editors and Translators. Her rece
nt translations include Esa Kirkkopelto’s Logomimesis (Routledge 2
024) from Finnish and Regina Töpfer’s Negotia
ting Childlessness in the Middle Ages (Arc
Humanities Press 2025) from German. With Wendy Ba
ldwin and Joana Zozimo\, she co-edited Women Writing Socially in Academia: Disp
atches from Writing Rooms (Palgrave
2024). Kate trained with Rowena Murray and has be
en facilitating writing retreats since 2019\, onli
ne and in person where she is based\, in Finland.<
/span>
DESCRIPTION:Chaired and facilitated by: Verity Aiken\n \n \n \
n Overview\n \n \n \n This webinar will provide an
exploratory series of presentations and discussio
n points about the practices and processes of co-w
riting within academia for the purposes of publica
tion. Drawing from chapters featured in the edited
volume ‘Writing Partnerships in Higher Education:
a guide for academics and HE professionals’\, pre
senters will offer insights relating to their expe
riences\, approaches and strategies of writing wit
h others\, and developing and sustaining a range o
f writing relationships with a focus on both the v
alue and challenges that writing collaboratively c
an bring. \n \n \n \n The session aims to:\n \n \n
\n \n Discuss the landscape and climate of colla
borative writing in academia in relation to the op
portunities\, expectations and possibilities of wr
iting with others for publication\n Consider both
the value and challenges involved in developing a
nd sustaining a range of different types of writin
g partnerships \n Develop a conceptual understand
ing of writing with others to help underpin and in
form practices at individual\, institutional and i
nternational levels.\n \n \n Schedule\n \n \n \n \
n \n \n \n 14.00 – 14.10\n \n \n \n
\n Welcome\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n
14.10 – 15.00\n \n \n \n \n Beyond the s
olitary scholar - Pejman Habibie (10 mins)\n \n \n
\n The emotional labour of collaborative acade
mic writing - Verity Aiken (10 mins)\n \n \n \n
Writing Together: A critical perspective on writi
ng with others - Ron Scapp (10 mins)\n \n \n \n
Panel discussion (20 mins)\n \n \n \n \n \n
\n \n 15.00 – 15.10\n \n \n \n \n
Break\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n 15.10 –
16.10\n \n \n \n \n Writing without bord
ers: reflections on co-authoring with internationa
l students - Tina Byrom (15 mins plus 5 min Q&A)\n
\n \n \n Pitfalls\, pleasures and partnerships
: journeys in collaborative writing - Jonathan Par
ker (15 mins plus 5 min Q&A)\n \n \n \n Our con
nected experiences: accounts of writing underpinne
d by technology - Lydia Arnold (15 mins plus 5 min
Q&A)\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n 16.10 –
16.20\n \n \n \n \n Break\n \n \n \n
\n \n \n \n 16.20 – 17.10\n \n \n \n
\n An ecosystem for collaborative writing in
academia: what initiates and sustains it? - Tanya
Hathaway and Namrata Rao (10 mins)\n \n \n \n G
rowing community outside the academy walls - Kate
Sotejeff-Wilson (10 mins) \n \n \n \n Hand-forg
ed texts and ties with writers: studying meanings
associated with social academic writing - Camilla
Lindholm and Emilia Luukka (10 mins)\n \n \n \n
Panel discussion (20 mins)\n \n \n \n \n \n
\n \n \n \n \n \n \n Speaker bios\n \n \n \n Ver
ity Aiken is senior lecturer in Education and the
Director of Doctoral Programmes in Social Sciences
at Nottingham Trent University. Verity’s research
explores the contextual factors that shape writin
g experiences and her work contributes to the deve
lopment of writing pedagogies designed to support
scholarly writing and writing for publication. She
has a series of publications that discuss topics
such as writing mentorship frameworks (in P. Habib
ie and R. Kohls (Eds)\, Narratives and practices o
f mentorship in scholarly publication\, 2024) and
slow scholarship practices for women writers (in A
. K. Hultgren and P. Habibie (Eds)\, Women in scho
larly publishing: a gender perspective\, 2024) tha
t build on earlier work concerned with the complex
ities of writer identities and shifting motivation
s for writing. Verity is also a Senior Fellow of t
he Higher Education Academy. \n \n \n \n Lydia Arn
old is Professor of Learning and Teaching and Asso
ciate Pro-Vice-Chancellor at Harper Adams Universi
ty\, where she has responsibility for curriculum\,
digital learning\, academic professional developm
ent\, and the scholarship of learning and teaching
. She has a longstanding interest in assessment de
sign\, learning technologies\, and action research
as a form of professional development. She is a b
logger\; her current blog has been active since 20
09. She is also active on social media platforms a
nd speaks regularly at learning and teaching confe
rence events. Recent publications include ‘Is it t
ime to stop talking about authentic assessment? (h
ttps://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/135625
17.2024.2369143)’ written with James Croxford\, an
d ‘Lessons learned from enabling large-scale asses
sment change: a collaborative autoethnographic stu
dy (https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/0
7294360.2023.2287730)’ in collaboration with Sam E
lkington\, Edd Pitt and Carmen Thomas.\n \n \n \n
Tina Byrom is Head of Enhanced Academic Practice a
t Loughborough University and has worked in educat
ion for 30 years across both the compulsory and po
st-compulsory sectors. She has extensive experien
ce in lecturing and tutoring in research methods\,
education and social policy and social justice. T
ina’s research interests include widening particip
ation\, student voice\, education policy\, reprodu
ction of inequality\, vulnerable and disadvantaged
groups and qualitative methods. She has led and c
ontributed to high profile social research studies
including teenage pregnancy\, homelessness amongs
t young people and young people’s transitions into
higher education. She has numerous publications a
ddressing social justice in education in addition
to those that focus on HE pedagogy (e.g. Byrom\, 2
023\; Byrom\, Wong and Boulton\, 2019\; Yuen\, Bou
lton and Byrom\, 2019). Beyond academia\, Tina pro
vides strategic leadership as a non-executive Dire
ctor (current Board Chair) at the National Ice Cen
tre\, and Chair of Trustees at Stone Soup Academy\
, Nottingham\n \n \n \n Dr Pejman Habibie serves a
s an Assistant Professor in the Faculty of Educati
on at Western University\, Canada where he instruc
ts graduate courses in Curriculum Studies and Stud
ies in Applied Linguistics. As a founding co-edito
r of both the Journal of English for Research Publ
ication Purposes and the Routledge Studies in Engl
ish for Research Publication Purposes book series\
, Dr. Habibie is an influential voice in the field
of English for Research Publication Purposes. His
research interests encompass the geopolitics\, so
cio-economics\, and scientometrics of knowledge co
nstruction and dissemination\, the impact of gener
ative artificial intelligence (GAI) on the global
knowledge economy\, and academic literacies. Dr. H
abibie’s scholarship has been featured in renowned
international journals\, including The Annual Rev
iew of Applied Linguistics\, The Journal of Second
Language Writing\, and Research Methods in Applie
d Linguistics\, as well as through several authore
d and edited books. He has also presented his work
to broader audiences as a keynote speaker and pre
senter at prestigious international conferences\,
including NYS TESOL\, TESOL\, the American Associa
tion for Applied Linguistics (AAAL)\, Writing acro
ss Borders (WRAB)\, and Symposium on Second Langua
ge Writing (SSLW).\n \n \n \n Tanya Hathaway is a
member of faculty at the School of Doctoral Studie
s at Unicaf University\, where she supervises inte
rnational doctoral students. She is a Senior Fello
w of the Higher Education Academy. Her contributio
n to educational research is diverse\, including p
olicy analysis and empirical studies in early chil
dhood to teaching and learning in higher education
and recent agendas\, including the notion of teac
hing excellence and Higher Education’s response to
crises. She has particular interest and experienc
e in working with students across all continents i
n distance and online education. Her experience of
teaching and research in higher education spans 1
9 years\, undertaken in the UK\, Australia and the
international Higher Education sector. Her teachi
ng has focused predominately on graduate education
\, leading and designing master’s level programmes
with a focus on quality teaching and professional
learning. Her recent publications include a co-ed
ited book with Nova Publications on Multilingual E
arly Childhood Education: Modern Approaches and Re
search (2024) and A word to the wise (gair i gall)
: university teacher educators’ experiences of eme
rgency response pedagogy in Wales (2024).\n \n \n
\n Camilla Lindholm is Professor of Nordic Languag
es at Tampere University. Her main research areas
are linguistic accessibility\, Easy Language\, and
interaction. With co-author Johanna Isosävi\, sh
e has published two books in Finnish: Väitöksen jä
lkeen: opas akateemiselle uralle (‘After the PhD:
An Academic Career Guide’\, 2021) and Yhteisöllise
n kirjoittamisen opas (‘A Guide to Social Writing’
\, 2023). She is also a writing retreat facilitat
or.\n \n \n \n Emilia Luukka is a doctoral researc
her at Tampere University. Her research publicatio
ns have focused on literature in foreign language
education\, school safety culture and social acade
mic writing. Of particular interest for her have b
een the study of conceptions\, experience and aspe
cts of culture within these fields. She has also f
acilitated social academic writing groups.\n \n \n
\n Jonathan Parker Prof. Dr. Jonathan Parker PhD\
, MA\, BA (Hons) CQSW\, FAcSS\, FJUC\, FHEA\, FRSA
\, Health Sciences University UK\, is Professor Em
eritus at Bournemouth University\, and Honorary Pr
ofessor at University of Stavanger\, Norway. He ha
s published widely (over 200 scholarly papers and
chapters and 43 books): on disadvantage\, marginal
ization\, violence\, social work and welfare educa
tion. He is author of the best-selling book Social
Work Practice (SAGE\, 2025) and series editor for
the highly successful Transforming Social Work Pr
actice series (SAGE).\n \n \n \n Namrata Rao is a
Professor of Education and Associate Dean (Student
Experience) at Liverpool Hope University where sh
e coordinates the School of Education’s postgradua
te taught programmes. Her key areas of research in
clude (but are not restricted to) various aspects
of learning and teaching in higher education that
influence academic identity and academic practice.
She is a Senior Fellow of the Higher Education Ac
ademy\, Vice Chair of the British Association of I
nternational and Comparative Education\, member of
Society for Research in Higher Education’s (SRHE)
Research and Development Committee and co-conveno
r of SRHE’s Learning\, Teaching and Assessment Net
work. Her research has been funded by organisatio
ns such as the EPSRC\, HEA (now Advance HE)\, Jisc
\, SEDA\, SRHE\, ALDinHE\, BAICE and BELMAS. Her r
ecent publications include co-edited books with Bl
oomsbury on the experiences of International Acade
mics 2018) and Early Career Academics (2021) and t
hree further books on Leadership in Learning and T
eaching published by Bloomsbury and Routledge. \n
\n \n \n Ron Scapp is the founding director of the
Graduate Program of Urban and Multicultural Educa
tion at the University of Mount Saint Vincent in t
he Bronx (New York City) where he is also professo
r of humanities and teacher education. His books i
nclude Teaching Values: Critical Perspectives on E
ducation\, Politics and Culture (Routledge) and. A
Question of Voice: Philosophy and the Search for
Legitimacy\, (University of Michigan Press)\, whic
h received the “Outstanding Book Award” in 2021 fr
om the Association for Ethnic Studies.\n \n \n \n
Kate Sotejeff-Wilson (PhD UCL 2005) midwifes texts
for academics and the arts. She translates into a
nd edits in English at KSW Translations (https://k
swtranslations.com/)\, runs Ridge Writing Retreats
(https://ridgewritingretreats.com/)\, and chairs
Nordic Editors and Translators (https://nordicedit
.fi/). Her recent translations include Esa Kirkkop
elto’s Logomimesis (Routledge 2024) from Finnish a
nd Regina Töpfer’s Negotiating Childlessness in th
e Middle Ages (Arc Humanities Press 2025) from Ger
man. With Wendy Baldwin and Joana Zozimo\, she co-
edited Women Writing Socially in Academia: Dispatc
hes from Writing Rooms (Palgrave 2024). Kate train
ed with Rowena Murray and has been facilitating wr
iting retreats since 2019\, online and in person w
here she is based\, in Finland.\n \n
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