Events

Annual Summit Meeting

Wednesday 25th March 2026
09.00-11.00 UK time
Online via Zoom

Thanks to everyone who attended and contributed to the discussion! We’ll provide a summary shortly.

We are pleased to invite you to our third Annual Summit Meeting, taking place online on the 25th March between 09.00-11.00 (UK time). Please register using the link above, and we will share the Zoom details with you in due course.

The Summit meeting enables us to hear from different voices and experiences, share best practices and challenges and explore different ways of engaging. By looking at the work and research that has already been undertaken into academic writing practice and development, the information gathered will help to analyse needs and identify opportunities for sharing and distributing knowledge and insights through various outputs and inform the strategic direction of the network.

Schedule
09.00-09.05      Welcome
09.05-09.15      Flash break-out rooms
09.15-09.20      Feedback from break-out rooms
09.20-10.00      Presentations from WRAP founding members
10.00-10.10      Comfort break
10.10-10.30      Keynote – Professor Rowena Murray
10.30-10.50      Open discussion
10.50-11.00      ‘Wrap’ up and close

The aim of the WRAP network is to build an agenda for furthering social writing practice by embedding writing in PhD, Early- and Mid-Career Researcher development, academic work/study, and teaching and learning. This is critical for current and future academic careers plus in teaching and supervising future generations of researchers as social writing can: facilitate ‘break-though’ writing progress by providing a protected and social space and time away from the usual workplace and other daily distractions; support the development of academic writing skills and competencies, both through academics’ self-guided improvement of their own writing process and through structured inputs of workshop elements during social writing events with peers; increase motivation for writing by building a profession network that serves as community of practice and peer support;  and strengthen the professional identity of academics as writers,  which helps embed good writing routines into daily work.

The network is led by a working group consisting of academic and professional staff who collectively have a wealth of knowledge and experience in supporting writers and their writing practice. All members of the working group have undertaken Structured Writing Retreat facilitation training with Professor Rowena Murray and have been actively facilitating retreats for a number of years.