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May be of interest to #PACEspace @ougradsch.bsky.social 👇🏼 #AcademicLiteracies
profdcotton.bsky.social Prof Debby Cotton @profdcotton.bsky.social · Jan 8
FameLab 2025 deadline 15th January! Are you a great communicator of complex research? Looking for ECRs and PGR students in STEM or social sciences who are passionate about research and would like to share their work with the world. More details here: www.cheltenhamfestivals.org/our-projects...
FameLab UK | Cheltenham Festivals
What is FameLab UK?FameLab UK is a science communication competition and sees the best new voices in science from around the country compete against one an
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January 8, 2025 at 1:59 PM
pacespaceou.bsky.social
The @ougradsch.bsky.social will soon be sharing its 'Position Statement & Guidance' on #AI in #DoctoralWriting, co-authored by me {JM} & aimed at doctoral researchers, supervisors, and examiners.

The guidance will inform our #PACEspace Workshops, Writing Circles, and 1-1 Consultations

#AcWri
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May 8, 2025 at 5:22 PM
pacespaceou.bsky.social
For evidence-based authorative & nuanced approaches to #AcademicWriting #DoctoralWriting follow these & their *wonderful blogs* #SocialScience #Humanities #Science

Reply with your go-to #AcWri favourites as my suggestions were capped ✍🏼

#PACEspace {JM}
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@ougradsch.bsky.social
November 21, 2024 at 9:50 AM
pacespaceou.bsky.social
What I love about #PACEspace is the privilege of discussing research writing in progress. Achieving #flow, dealing with #feedback, finding #voice are what we discuss most.

But trusting an Other with your writing is hard. PACE provides a safe & brave space to do this {JM}.

#DoctoralWriting #PhDLife
June 5, 2025 at 5:45 AM
pacespaceou.bsky.social
I'll be giving this year's keynote at #EATAW25 - alongside Suresh Canagarajah & Federico Navarro - on:

'AI Realism: Reclaiming the Human in AI-enhanced Academic Literacies' (cf abstract) {JM}
🤞
#PACEspace #AcWri #AcademicLiteracies #GenAI #CriticalRealism #OpenUniversity

www.eataw2025.com/keynote
AI Realism: Reclaiming the Human in AI-enhanced Academic Literacies Julia Molinari ​ Language technologies (LTs) are not new and a life without them means many things to many people: unimaginable, impractical, unavoidable, undesirable, undemocratic, maybe even a welcome relief. LTs include the familiar (dictionaries, machine translators, spellcheckers) and now the unfamiliar, which is rapidly becoming the new normal: LLMs (Large Language Models) powered by GenAI (GenerativeAI) and, apparently, AGI (Artificial General Intelligence) are automating writing in unprecedented ways. I wish to use this talk to press pause, just for a moment, to catch our collective breaths. I would like to halt the dizzying speed at which these technologies are affecting our professional and personal existence by sharing a critical realist perspective (Archer & Maccarini, 2023) on LTs and what it means to be human (Molinari, 2025). This includes reflecting on LTs’ implications for academic literacies broadly understood as multisemiotic modes of communication, which include multilingualism (Lillis & Tuck, 2025). AI Realism entails neither techno-determinism nor techno-enthusiasm nor luddism. Rather, it provides a critical space in which to interrogate why AI has so abruptly irrupted into everyday life and how we might want to respond as educators. For example, it’s no coincidence that ChatGPT was released in the wake of the COVID19 pandemic (Hussain et al., 2024), with significant implications for the development of proctoring and surveillance technologies (McKenna, 2022). It’s also no coincidence that AI is associated with fascist ideologies (McQuillan, 2022). That it remains a black box in terms of how it is trained and by whom also raises concerns for academic writing (Gallagher, 2020). All this presents ideological challenges and opportunities for academic literacies that include, for example, re-visiting what we mean by criticality and agency if these foundational tenets of academi…
June 5, 2025 at 6:32 AM
pacespaceou.bsky.social
Good thread for us to follow #PACEspace, on #feedback 👇🏼

[As an aside, I'm planning an informal #ThursdayMorningCoffee (online & on campus) via @ougradsch.bsky.social in the Spring to share experiences, research, and responses to #SupervisorFeedback]

#AcWri #DoctoralWriting #AcademicLiteracies
{JM}
jdermo.bsky.social John Dermo @jdermo.bsky.social · Jan 8
Q2 students are more likely to be active participants if the feedback comments are framed as purposeful actions.
#LTHEChat
January 8, 2025 at 8:36 PM
pacespaceou.bsky.social
This is a great resource for alternative #PostGraduate funding.

Loads of A-Z charities that fund niche groups.
If your uni has a subscription, you can download the 161-page pdf. for free.

If they don't, ask them to subscribe {JM}
www.postgraduate-funding.com/home
@ougradsch.bsky.social
#PACEspace
Webster and Davidson Educational Trust https://www.thorntons-law.co.uk/ The Trust was set up to assist blind and partially sighted people. The Trustees have now resolved to use the Trust's annual income to provide a Musical Education Award and funding towards Educational Visits. The Trusts funds are not extensive and preference will be given to persons resident, or normally resident, in Scotland. Wellbeing of Women http://www.wellbeingofwomen.org.uk/research/research-grants/?menu=1c Funds research dedicated to improving the health of women and babies. William Boreman Charitable Trust https://www.thedrapers.co.uk/Charities/Grant-making-trusts/Sir-William-Boremans-Foundation.aspx Grants to students under 25 resident in the London boroughs of Greenwich or Lewisham. Must be a UK National, and have a family income of c.£25,000 per annum or less. Wine Guild Charitable Trust http://www.wineguilduk.org/ The Trust's objective is to enhance the education of the general public in the knowledge of
November 21, 2024 at 8:59 AM
pacespaceou.bsky.social
Huge thanks to all who travelled & made it, wrote & stretched 😉, and gave feedback on our all-day #PACEspace 'Writing Retreat' last week in #ThePark - the sun streamed and we *all* got tons of writing done ✍️✍️✍️🥳

#DoctoralWriting
#PhDLife
#ThesisWriting

@ougradsch.bsky.social @oulibrary.bsky.social
Slide blue background, white writing: Writing in the Park: PACE writing retreat Facilitator: Dr Julia Molinari with special thanks to Dr Jasmine Hunter-Evans pace@open.ac.uk - 5 February 2025 and Open University logo Open University Library at dusk with signposts to different areas, including The Park Open University Library, 2 researchers taking a break from writing to read Bunting feedback with various handwritten messages in response to: 1) What have you found useful or enjoyed? (Green bunting) and 2) What could we do better next time? (Yellow bunting)
February 11, 2025 at 10:57 AM
pacespaceou.bsky.social
"Asking a dissertation abstract to be unerringly clear is like asking someone to explain complex math in a tweet. Wrong time, wrong place."

#AcWri
#DoctoralWriting
#AcademicJargon
#clarity
brandy-schillace.medium.com/no-academic-...

Worth a read #PACEspace, including thread by Philip Ball, below 👇🏼
January 25, 2025 at 4:53 PM
pacespaceou.bsky.social
How to read a paper involving artificial intelligence (AI)

Key messages:

1. [...]
2. [...]
3. A preliminary framework and set of questions for appraising a paper [...] are described

Insightful for #DoctoralWriting #CriticalReading #AcWri {JM}
#PACEspace

bmjmedicine.bmj.com/content/4/1/...
How to read a paper involving artificial intelligence (AI)
This paper guides readers through the critical appraisal of a paper that includes the use of artificial intelligence (AI) in clinical settings for healthcare delivery. A brief introduction to the diff...
bmjmedicine.bmj.com
April 16, 2025 at 8:37 AM
pacespaceou.bsky.social
#PACEspace exists to help with exactly this:

"There’s often a stigma attached to seeking support [...]. There’s nothing more authentic than wanting to do your best work. Asking for help isn’t a failure of ability — it’s a refusal to be isolated"

www.thecanary.co/discovery/fe...
Reclaiming My Voice: The Role of Paper Writers in a Student's Resistance to Silence
University was supposed to be a place of liberation. But almost immediately, I learned that academic writing came with its own constraints
www.thecanary.co
July 28, 2025 at 4:11 PM
pacespaceou.bsky.social
Recordings & slides relating to the 'Future of Doctoral Writing' are under 'Content'.

This page is subject to edits but there's enough there for those interested to get a sense of what was discussed.

Thank you to those who managed to attend {JM}

#PACEspace
#PACExtra
www.open.edu/openlearncre...
Webpage of the event with 'Material - PACE EXTRA Guest Speaker Series (Graduate School) Description Content Reviews Material content Below is the material content. You can click on any section here and it will take you through to this section of the material. The Future of Doctoral Writing: Critical Dialogues towards a Manifesto'
July 25, 2025 at 3:03 PM
pacespaceou.bsky.social
Wee glance into the sorts of discussions we get into at #PACEspace 😱 {JM}:

kick-starting 2025 with a session on 'Commitment, Risk, and Voice' in #DoctoralWriting #ResearchWriting #AcademicLiteracies ✍️

@ougradsch.bsky.social

#ZombieNouns #Nominalisation #AcWri #PhDLife

#WhatMakesWritingAcademic👀
PACE Workshops Block 2 Session 1 Writing the Doctorate Commitment, risk, and voice Julia Molinari January 8th 2024 book cover design featuring a stark contrast between text and imagery. The title "Risk in Academic Writing" appears prominently in white text against a deep blue background at the top, followed by the subtitle "Postgraduate Students, their Teachers and the Making of Knowledge." Starting points: ‘How to Books’ on academic writing […] tend to over-generalise, over-simplify, de-skill students […] implicitly and explicitly perpetuating a restricted and deficit model of student competence and language use. The Guides […] tend to focus on how students can imitate existing conventions based on massively problematic assumptions about student homogeneity and the stability of the disciplines (Thesen and Cooper, 2013, p. 4) Book cover of The Scientist’s Guide to Writing, 2nd Edition: How to Write More Easily and Effectively throughout Your Scientific Career, Stephen B. Heard Starting points: Legions of undergraduates have been told that scientists should write in the passive voice (and never, ever, write “I”). This advice is wrong. The passive is prevalent in the literature – but it hasn’t always been, and the tide is shifting back towards the active (Heard, 2022, p. 174) Image of a newspaper article depicting an orange brain against an orange brick wall to represent how writers become alienated from their writing. Starting points Academic writing: why no 'me' in PhD? […] by removing the first person point of view and the active voice from your writing, what you're actually doing is removing yourself. […] This is a big problem since more than half of the academic writing that already exists is on subjects that are difficult to understand for most non-academics. And when you remove the distinctive self (or voice) from your writing, it can become unbearable to read. When you alienate the 'I' from your dissertation, you are taking a big risk: turning your writing into a mere juxtaposition of facts and figures. https://www.theguardian.com/higher-education-network/blog/2013/apr/19/academic-writing-first-person-singular
January 7, 2025 at 4:29 PM
pacespaceou.bsky.social
I've been really enjoying our start to #PACEspace 2025-26.

I'm now really looking forward to how your #DoctoralWriting shapes up ✍️✍️✍️✍️✍️

The Future is in the Now!

{JM}
Photo of Julia Molinari smiling Photo of several books on academic writing, academic literacies, multimodal, creative, and sociological scholarship on writing as a critical practice and language as power. The books are laid out on a table for display and browsing during our first in-person and hybrid lesson. Photo of several books on academic writing, academic literacies, multimodal, creative, and sociological scholarship on writing as a critical practice and language as power. The books are laid out on a table for display and browsing during our first in-person and hybrid lesson. Photo of several books on academic writing, academic literacies, multimodal, creative, and sociological scholarship on writing as a critical practice and language as power. The books are laid out on a table for display and browsing during our first in-person and hybrid lesson.
October 22, 2025 at 8:41 PM
pacespaceou.bsky.social
"for students like me, writing is more than a skill. It’s a form of resistance. It’s how we carve out space in institutions that weren’t built for us. And anyone who helps us do that — respectfully, ethically, collaboratively — is part of that resistance too."

#PACEspace {JM}
July 28, 2025 at 9:16 PM
pacespaceou.bsky.social
A pdf of my slides on 'AI and multiliteracies' is now available on the EATAW conference website and can be cited via doi.org/10.5281/zeno...

Thank you to Jennifer Sizer (orcid.org/0000-0002-27...) for alerting me to #Zenodo (which lets you share presentations via #Orcid with a doi)

#PACEspace {JM}
Snip tool of 2 of my slides on why archives matter discussed in the context of whose archives and how the AI bots are trained
July 25, 2025 at 10:57 AM
pacespaceou.bsky.social
Free online workshop on 1st time conference attendance:

*Giving a great talk
*Getting accepted as a speaker
*Networking at conferences
*Making the most of a conference as a student

11 March 3pm UK
Online

#PACEspace
February 27, 2025 at 5:21 PM
pacespaceou.bsky.social
On a related note, I think this post is still relevant {JM}.

How and who to be on social media, from passive to active - are you an observer (aka lurker?), connector, promoter, influencer, or other?

#SocialMedia
#PACEspace
blogs.lse.ac.uk/impactofsoci...
Observer, Connector, Promoter, Influencer – How to leverage social media to be an open academic
To be an open researcher is more than simply openly sharing research papers. Marcel Bogers and Ian McCarthy draw on their research on open practices in business research to outline four ways of lev…
blogs.lse.ac.uk
January 14, 2025 at 12:44 PM
pacespaceou.bsky.social
Interesting video interviews on writing in the academy from literature to science with scholars at the American University of Beirut.

Of interest to academics in Lebanon, the MENA region, and beyond {JM}

#AcWri #AcademicWriting #AcademicPublishing
#PACEspace #tleap
www.aub.edu.lb/writers-univ...
Writers in the University
www.aub.edu.lb
January 9, 2025 at 10:41 AM
pacespaceou.bsky.social
A1
Context is everything.
At #PACEspace (@ougradsch.bsky.social #OpenUniversity) feedback opportunities for developing #AcademicLiteracies in #DoctoralWriting sit alongside supervisor feedback & consist of:
- individual disciplinary consultations on #WritingInProgress
- peer-led #WritingCircles
{JM}
January 8, 2025 at 8:28 PM
pacespaceou.bsky.social
Season's Greetings from #PACEspace {JM}

Wishing you all 🕊️, rest, good health, and space to think.

Signing off until January 2025 with some words of hope and wisdom from #AcademicDiary on why #HigherEducation still matters.

#AcWri #DoctoralLiteracies #DoctoralEducation #ResearchWriting #OpenAccess
White on Red cover of 'Academic Diary Or Why Higher Education Still Matters' by Les Back Letter to a new student 1. Listen but don't be silent 2. Care about your grades but don't make them your only goal 3. Read and buy books 4. Don't try and do it all the night before 5. Don't be just a consumer 6. Follow your interests (Les Back, pp 17-24)
December 24, 2024 at 8:13 AM
pacespaceou.bsky.social
I 🥰 sharing this with multidisciplinary researchers during #PACEspace sessions:

Helen Sword (cf 'stylish academic writing') is a 💫 force for pumping joy, life, fun, voice, light, love & soul into #AcWri {JM}

#Nominalisations
#ZombieNouns
#AcademicLiteracies
#DoctoralWriting

youtu.be/dNlkHtMgcPQ
Beware of nominalizations (AKA zombie nouns) - Helen Sword
YouTube video by TED-Ed
youtu.be
November 27, 2024 at 6:41 PM