UCL Centre for the Advancement of Learning and Teaching (CALT)

This event will provide a meeting and discussion space for members of UCL involved in the development and support of student writing. The convention will enable participants:

● to discover or expand their knowledge of initiatives within UCL;

● to share practical experiences, both organisational and pedagogical;

● to assist in problem-solving;

● to form networks to assist in future activities.

We hope to include the following contributors:

1. Academic staff involved with credit-bearing modules that focus, in part or in whole, on the development of student writing.
2. Academic staff who try to develop student writing in the context of their modules.
3. Staff supporting student writing in departments (or similar) but not in the context of a specific module, eg. SELCS Writing Lab.
4. Staff involved in the provision of institutional support in one way or another, eg. CALT, the Transitions Programme, Royal Literary Fund Writing Fellows, Careers, CLIE, etc.
5. UCL Union initiatives, eg. Writing and Learning Support.
6. Student initiatives, eg. UCLU Writer’s Society, EUREKA writing workshop, etc.

In support of the event we are asking participants:

• To provide links to a website related to their initiative, along with a two-sentence summary of what their initiative entails.  This is to host on the UCL Teaching and Learning Portal to help as a guide to others who may want to follow your lead.
• To identify one key issue to discuss during the Open Space session

On the day we asking participants to:

• State what they would like to get out of the day

• Say a few words about how their initiative helps to develop students' writing at UCL

As indicated above, we are compiling a list of useful web links as the start of a dynamic resource on the Teaching & Learning Portal.  We would like to use the event on 26 April both to launch this resource but also to augment it.  We would like to include the following:

• A comprehensive list of writing initiatives at UCL

• An online reading list of Library resources related to academic writing, also to be located on the Teaching & Learning Portal

• Training materials for UCL Staff to help develop their students' writing

• Future events and training on the theme of Developing Students' Writing at UCL