Deputy Director
Liverpool Hope University
hallg@hope.ac.uk
0151 291 3289

I took over as Deputy Director of Write Now in October 2008, when I joined Liverpool Hope University as its first Student Success Zone Manager. The Student Success Zone incorporates the new learning spaces that Write Now capital funding helped to create. The Zone is also the home of the Writing Centre, the Write Now CETL, Career Development and the LearnHigher team.

My PhD was in physical chemistry and after leaving the University of Leeds I worked in industry in a variety of roles before returning to academia to take up a position in the University of Nottingham's Graduate School. My responsibilities included the provision of professional development opportunities for the university's 2500 research students and 800 early career researchers. This work in helping to equip people to research at the cutting edge of the large range of disciplines offered at Nottingham is what led me to take up this new challenge at Liverpool Hope.

After spending so long working with researchers from all disciplines I have a keen interest in helping students to understand what it means when they are asked to write at 'postgraduate level'. My other passion is helping students to see how their studies and research can help society. Excellent oral and written communication skills are crucial in delivering these benefits.

Publications

• Hooley, T., Kulej, M., Edwards, C. and Mahoney, K. (2009) Understanding the part-time researcher experience. Dalgleish, H., Hall, G., Mahoney, K. and Metcalfe, J. (eds.). Available at Vitae.

Books

• Hall, G. and Longman, J. ed. (2008) The postgraduate's companion. London: SAGE.

Book chapters

• Lewis, P. and Hall, G. (2007) Evaluation and review of Skills Training Programmes for Research Students. In: Hinchcliffe, R, Bromley, T and Hutchinson, S (eds.) Skills Training in Research Degree Programmes Politics and Practice. Maidenhead. Open University Press.