Peer-based writing support available to academics

Peer writing group with editor support

This new initiative will be starting in the 2023/24 academic year, and will also be facilitated by our Editor-in-Residence, Katharine Reeve. This will be a 30-45-minute online catch up, monthly, through the 23/24 academic year, with a set of staff who have a contract to write a publication. There is no charge for this service.

Contact

If you’d like to find out more about this opportunity, please contact Kerry-Jo Reilly, Convenor of the Academic Communication Centre Arts, Humanities & Social Sciences / Bartlett (previously The Writing Lab).

About Katharine Reeve

Katharine has held senior positions in publishing as Editorial Director and Senior Commissioning Editor at Oxford University Press, Senior Commissioning Editor at Manchester University Press. As an editorial consultant she has worked with publishers such as Hachette and HarperCollins, and national organisations such as ACE and English Heritage. She specialises in working with academics, making their research accessible and engaging to create successful, intellectually-stimulating books. She also specialises in transforming PhDs into book publications and in supporting academics in doing this.

Katharine wrote the research report ‘The Role of the Editor: Publisher Perspectives’ (UCL Press, 2018) for the AHRC-funded ‘Academic Book of the Future’ project and is an award-winning nonfiction author (Rough Guide to Food, co-authored, Penguin, 2009; Guild of Food Writers Award for investigative writing). Her next book is based on the Penguin Archive and explores the wartime community of writers, editors, artists and printers who created the pioneering Puffin picturebook series (CUP, forthcoming). She developed successful new degree programmes in publishing at Bath Spa University, runs workshops on how to get published and mentors students, ECRs, and young publishers (SYP mentoring scheme).