News & events

Expert Lecture Series

The video of the Birmingham Expert Lecture is available here. The video of the London lecture will be added to the same web page in early September.

Photographs of the three expert lectures have been added to the website.

See: Liverpool Expert Lecture

See: Birmingham Expert Lecture

See: London Expert Lecture, as part of WDHE conference

 


WDHE conference abstracts and presentations

The WDHE conference abstracts are now available online. We will be adding as many of the WDHE conference presentations as possible to the website over the next couple of weeks (from 1 July onwards). Click here to view which presentations are already available.

To view the WDHE conference programme click here .

 


The June 2010 issue of Write Now News is now available

The May issue of Write Now News is now available to read online or as a PDF. The newsletter aims to update academics and HE learning developers on our work on student writing in the disciplines and the development of innovative, evidence-based provision focused on writing for assessment. Articles in this issue include a report on embedded writing support at Liverpool Hope  and the use of online tutorials for writing development at London Metropolitan.


Training peer tutors in writing: a pragmatic, research-based approach

This article, in Zeitschrift Schreiben (European Journal of Writing), examines the London Metropolitan University Writing Centre training programme and reports on the rationale for the peer mentor training programme and on initial evaluation of its success.