PUBLIC ENGAGEMENT FOR RESEARCHERS 18/6, 0930-1230, ROOM 2
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his workshop explores the role of Wikipedia as a tool for promoting public engagement with – and awareness of – research outcomes. By the end of this workshop, participants will have found a new place to share their learning, and will be inspired to do so. They wiill understand more about the significance of open knowledge in the context of public engagement. Presenter Bio: Sara Thomas is the Scotland Programme Coordinator for Wikimedia UK. She was the Wikimedian in Residence at both the Scottish Library & Information Council, and Museums Galleries Scotland. She believes that you should be editing Wikipedia, and that you will be a better academic / researcher if you do.
WRITING IS HARD 18/6, 0930-1230 AND 1330-1630 (REPEAT SESSION), ROOM 7
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riting is hard invites you to inquire into your own individual writing practice – examining and reflecting on habits and thinking processes that can aid or disrupt the flow of writing on a day-by-day basis. Often the advice given to writers – writers of PhDs, writers of creative works – is: “just write”. However, this advice is often singularly unhelpful and this workshop aims to unpick something of what ‘writing’ means. Presenter Bio: Dr Melissa Stirling Reid recently completed a PhD in Creative Writing at the University of Strathclyde. This involved writing a contemporary coming-of-age novel, with an accompanying critical study which reflexively analysed (and attempted to somewhat ‘demystify’) something of the practice of writing. Since completing her PhD, Melissa has been working on her own writing (both fiction and creative nonfiction), teaching Creative Writing to undergrads and masters students at Strathclyde University, and running monthly writing retreats in Glasgow with Writers’ HQ. She is the founding editor of Quotidian Literary Magazine – an online and print magazine publishing prose and poetry by students studying on Scotland on the theme of ‘the everyday’ – and her writing has been featured on BBC Radio 4 as part of their Scottish Short’s series. She also runs a blog – ‘Something Noticed’ (www.somethingnoticed. com) – which is a love letter to the ordinary.
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