Prof. Karen Heard-Lauréote and Dr Carina Buckley, Thursday 14th December 2023, 1pm – 2pm (MS Teams)

The life of a contemporary academic is characterised by multiple competing priorities and complexity. In such a context, how can a full academic profile of teaching, leadership, research and scholarship be maintained? The aim of this session is to illuminate peers about the potential of writing in collaborative golden hours to carve out and protect time for scholarly activity. This is a method that promotes inclusion by being open to all interested parties, whatever their background, and levelling the playing field for all collaborators - each finds the same time and duration from their workload to invest in the co-creation of publishable artefacts. This is a tried and tested method of publication for the authors with 5 outputs realised in the last 3 years. As we roll this model out to other colleagues in the sector, the intention is to evaluate effectiveness through participant satisfaction surveys.

At the end of this session, participants should be able to:
1. Understand the notion of collaborative golden hours and what can be achieved in them.
2. Feel empowered to write collaboratively following the method presented.
3. Identify a potential output to be completed through this method within a specified timeframe

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