Colleagues explored collaborative writing in higher education, discussing its commonality, positive aspects, and challenges. The panel featured Senior Learning Designer Angela Tinney, Bid Development Manager Dr. Michelle Ierna, and Lecturer Claire Mackie. Facilitated by Dr. Ruth Currie, Lecturer in Researcher Development, the session delved into the collaborative writing experience, emphasizing its importance.
What are your aims for your collaborative writing?
What might need to be negotiated to support you and your collaborators to work together successfully?
How are responsibilities shared within your writing collaboration?
What are your responsibilities within the project?
How do you currently communicate and share ideas with your collaborators?
What might you need collaboration tools to support you with?
Collaborative writing, in many different forms, is a common part of working in higher education. Colleagues from professional services and academic backgrounds may collaborate on writing journal articles, bids for grants, book chapters and reports for Schools or university committees, as well as many other formats of work.
Writing collaboratively can be a positive experience, especially with the wide range of online tools available to support colleagues with their joint work – but it can also be challenging at times. This panel explored this topic with Senior Learning Designer Angela Tinney from the Learning Futures team; Dr Michelle Ierna, Bid Development Manager from Research Services; and Claire Mackie, Lecturer, Learning Futures.
What were some take aways from the sessions?
Collaborative writing includes aspects of interpretation between you and your collaborators and its important to find balance and compromise across your plans for the work. Sometimes, you might be working with people you know well and other times, you might be working with collaborators for the first time (for example, on a grant proposal).
UWS has a range of tools that you can use to support your collaborative writing and the Learning Futures team can support you to get the most out of these. Hear from the team in this video below and contact them for future support for your writing projects.
Watch the recording of the session on this page and keep an eye out on the e-bulletin for future sessions. If you are a PGR, your PGR Coordinator will let you know when more sessions are upcoming. UWS has a range of tools that you can use to support your collaborative writing and the Learning Futures team can support you to get the most out of these. Hear from the team in this video and contact them for future support for your writing projects.
In the meantime, good luck with your writing collaborations!