In this interactive Methods North West online seminar Dr Helen Kara will introduce you to the principles of creative academic writing.
There is great scope for creativity in academic writing across all disciplines. Helen will highlight some of the options and give you a chance to try out a couple of them for yourself.
The aim is to demonstrate that writing creatively is more fun for the writer and produces more engaging text for the reader.
About Helen
Dr Helen Kara has been an independent researcher since 1999 and also teaches research methods and ethics. She is not, and never has been, an academic, though she has learned to speak the language.
In 2015 Helen was the first fully independent researcher to be conferred as a Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences.
She has written several books and journal articles on research methods and ethics, including Creative Research Methods: A Practical Guide (2020 (2nd edn), Policy Press) and, with Richard Phillips, Creative Writing for Social Research (2021, Policy Press) and a forthcoming book: 'The Creative Guide to Professional Writing: Easy Techniques to Engage your Readers' (Manchester University Press, 2025).
Helen is also running a methods@manchester Summer School course in June 2024. For more detail about this course please visit the methods@manchester website or the Creative Academic Writing webpage.