Centre for the Study of Women and Gender Events
Our forthcoming events are listed below.
You can find information about our past events here (2016 - present) and here (2000 - 2015).
For the full list of speakers in our Graduate Seminar series (2004 - present), click here.
For video and audio recordings of past CSWG events, click here.
CSWG Writing Session
Are you looking for a supportive environment and dedicated time to focus on writing? CSWG invites you to join the Centre's structured writing sessions.
These sessions are open to both staff and students. They will run during the Spring Term, as follows:
- Before term starts: Friday 9 January, 9 am – 1 pm (Wolfson Room 3)
- Week 2: Friday 23 January, 9 am – 1 pm (Wolfson Room 1+2)
- Week 4: Thursday 5 February, 9.30 am - 12.30 pm (Wolfson Room 1+2)
- Week 5: Friday 13 February, 9 am – 1 pm (Wolfson Room 3)
- Week 7: Friday 27 February, 9 am – 1 pm (Wolfson Room 1+2)
- Week 9: Thursday 12 March, 9.30 am - 12.30 pm (Wolfson Room 1+2)
- Week 10: Friday 20 March, 9 am - 1 pm (Wolfson Room 3)
Sessions will be held at the Wolfson Research Exchange, located on the 3rd floor of Warwick Library. Advance registration is not required - just turn up!
Access to Wolfson requires a staff card or a PhD student card, so please bring your card with you. If you are an UG or MA student, or a CSWG member external to Warwick, please email Sílvia Gomes (silvia.gomes@warwick.ac.uk) or Akane Kanai (Akane.Kanai@warwick.ac.uk) in advance so arrangements can be made to give you access to the venue.
Sessions will be based on the highly successful Sociological Review Writing Retreat model, in which sessions are facilitated and divided into a series of fixed, timed writing slots, with everyone working in the same room at the same time. Details on how the sessions will run are outlined below.
Plans for the Sessions
We will discuss our writing/research goals at the beginning and end of the session, and the facilitator will tell you when to start and when to stop writing. Writing blocks will typically last 30–45 minutes or up to 1 hour, with 10-minute breaks in between. The facilitator will use a timer, so you can focus entirely on your work without watching the clock.
We work to a policy of 'no surveillance', so you’ll be responsible for setting your own writing goals and monitoring your progress. The use of phones and the internet during the writing sessions will be discouraged (unless needed).
How to prepare?
To make the most out of the writing time, we advise the following:
- Decide on a writing project (a chapter of your thesis, a journal article or book chapter);
- Undertake most of the reading needed for your piece of writing;
- Decide on the draft structure of your paper/chapter, including notes, plans, outlines, data, etc.
- Bring all you need to spend the time writing - laptop, charger, notes, readings.
If necessary, you may use the sessions for preparatory tasks such as reading articles, provided this does not disturb others who are writing.