New Event: Diversifying scholarly writing and publishing

Posted on 24th February, 2025

Join Pat Gordon-Smith discuss how scholarly communication is slowly diversifying, and share examples from her work as commissioning editor for UCL Press as part of the Academic Writing Seminar Series run out of UCL IOE.

Event type: Online

Date & time: 27 Feb 2025, 16:00 – 17:00 GMT

Movement in higher education towards diversity, engagement and decolonisation has implications for legitimate scholarly communication, and that has a knock-on impact for publishing. In this talk, Pat will draw on examples of writing she has worked with at UCL Press, including co-produced texts with non-academic partners, scholarly fiction and poetics, and decolonising approaches.

This will come with a health warning that the road less travelled is bumpy, for readers and authors – and publishers! But change will only come through practice. Pat’s examples of working with successful material aim to show that there are options for students and academic writers at all points in their career.

This event will be particularly useful for those interested in publishing, EDI, writing development, and academic writing support.