Description

This 3-day workshop is designed to strengthen your academic writing process by developing your ability to reflect critically on how you write.

You will be introduced to research-based mental models that help you understand and improve your writing habits. Alongside this theoretical foundation, you will actively practice a range of tools and strategies aimed at making your writing more efficient, focused, and sustainable.

The workshop also functions as an intensive writing retreat. You will dedicate substantial time to your own writing project, allowing you to make concrete progress. By the end of the workshop, you will be significantly closer to completing your article, report, grant proposal, or PhD thesis.

Learning Objectives

By the end of the workshop, you will be able to:

• Structure your writing using clear and achievable goals
• Use speedwriting techniques to overcome writer’s block and generate ideas
• Make effective use of short time intervals for productive writing
• Identify and navigate different phases of the writing process
• Develop a coherent and compelling storyline in your text
• Reflect on your personal writing challenges and create supportive writing conditions
• Create a realistic and sustainable writing plan
• Reconnect with your motivation and enjoyment of writing

Requirements

To participate fully in the workshop, you should:

• Bring your own laptop
• Bring the text(s) you are currently working on
• Have access to relevant materials such as empirical data and articles
• Participate in the pre-course online session (17.08.2026, 11:00-12:00)

To gain the full benefit of the workshop, you are expected to:

• Participate actively throughout all three days
• Avoid scheduling other commitments during the workshop period

You may work on texts in any language; however, the instruction and most exercises will be conducted in English.

Target audience: Doctoral and Postdoctoral Researchers with a ongoing written project

Organizers: Graduate Campus UniNE, ITTS, Faculty of Economic Sciences

Coach: Mirjam Godskesen (www.writeconcept.dk)

Workshop language: English

Places: 26

Dates: 31.08, 01.09 and 02.09.2026 (3 days)

Location: UniNE (TBD)

Registration deadline: 30.06.2026

Cancellation policy : Late cancellation (after 30.06.2026) or "no-show":100 CHF administrative fee