Elements of Style: Co-Writing and Collaboration

Join Amanda Brobbel, Senior Manager, Writing & Language Learning Services. Centre for Scholarly Communication, and Robin Metcalfe, PhD Candidate in IGS – Community Engagement, Social Change, and Equity, who will lead a workshop on co-writing, including what it is, the benefits, and approaches to co-writing. We will also discuss tips for researchers and community collaborators who might want to develop a co-writing practice.

Amanda Brobbel is the Senior Manager for writing and language learning services at UBC Okanagan. Amanda has worked with the Centre for Scholarly Communication since 2013 and has overseen UBCO’s peer to peer writing and language learning supports since 2014. Amanda is passionate about ensuring that all students can access services that will support them in achieving their goals.   

Robin Metcalfe is completing a PhD at UBC Okanagan and supporting research projects with the UBC Canadian Institute for Inclusion and Citizenship, Canada’s only university-based research centre with a dedicated focus on social policy and issues concerned with the full inclusion and citizenship of people with intellectual and developmental disabilities. An area of Robin’s focus is the new BC accessibility law.  Collaborative writing projects include feminist creative activism and disability justice knowledge from a Fiji perspective. 

This workshop will be hybrid, with the in-person attendance limited to 20.

The in-person workshop will take place in ARTS 368, The Institute for Community Engaged Research. Participants can also attend via Zoom.

Please e-mail icer.ok@ubc.ca with any questions.

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