The Writing Centre at Liverpool Hope University is the UK's longest running university-based academic writing centre. Founded in 2004, the Centre is staffed by a full-time Co-ordinator (Julian Brasington) and a team of postgraduate and undergraduate peer writing tutors, and is home to the Royal Literary Fund Writing Fellow, crime novelist Margaret Murphy. Write Now plays a key role both in funding and staffing Writing Centre initiatives.

Core Writing Centre activities include:

• A one-to-one tutorial programme open to students and staff
• Writers’ groups
• Writing programme and assessment design consultancy
• Research into peer tutoring and Writing in the Disciplines (WiD)
• Development of resources for student writers

Commended in Writing Matters, the Royal Literary Fund's report on Student Writing in Higher Education (Davies, Swinburne and Williams, 2006), as being "a good example of a small, inexpensive facility having an influence out of all proportion to its size”, the Centre is currently involved in the cross-institutional research project, Pathways to Success Through Mentoring, and acts as critical friend to Flying Start.

Contact:
Julian Brasington, Centre Coordinator

brasinj@hope.ac.uk

0151 291 3938