By Dr Julie Monroe, NUBS Research Fellow
10 Oct 2022

I joined the ECR Writing Group this year and I’ve attended four times so far. The group was recommended by a NUBS reviewer when I was applying for a NUBS fellowship. I enjoy the structure and personally Fridays seem an ideal day to end the working week on a writing-focused high. What has been interesting has been the breadth of projects that colleagues bring. I thought people would be mainly writing journal articles, but you can work on anything including reading, slides for a presentation, anything where you need a space to think. One of the big pluses has been the conversations with colleagues I hadn’t met before (and might never have met). We are lucky to enjoy excellent facilities (the group meets in the board room at FDC on a Friday in term time). Having said that, because of the Teams group, people often organise outside of the Friday structure, for example, meeting virtually through the week and there are also writing retreats. The atmosphere is supportive!