Write For Us

Please send a Word document containing: (1) a title, (2) a one-line bio, (3) the text of your post, and (4) a copyright-free photo* to Timothy.Amaglo-Mensah@glasgow.ac.uk.  

Once we receive a draft, we will work with you to provide editorial support to shape, format, post, and promote the article. 

We commit to making the blog site accessible to all readers in line with the 2019 accessibility requirements for public sector bodies. 

Authors can ensure their post is well read by: 

  • Ensuring posts are around 750 words.   

  • Keeping writing sharp, to the point and avoiding academic language.   

  • Including an image. 

  • Where suitable, embed links to relevant webpages, other blog posts, etc. within the body of your post, or ensure signposting to workshops and events, resources, contacts, etc. at the end of the post. Avoid outbound links in the introduction. 

  • Remember your audience: keep it light, targeted and write respectfully. 

  • Making sure it is kept short, and the post is divided into headings (e.g. title, subheadings) 

 

IMAGES  

All posts must include one relevant image, which will be used as the post header. 

You must have the correct copyright permissions for use of images, if they are not your own (images explicitly labelled for reuse / non-commercial reuse under the 'Creative Commons' license).  If you give us permission to use your own photos, etc., you will retain copyright, and we will credit you as such.   

Work on the blog is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International License, which means that other blogs etc. can republish the material as long as they credit you (as the author) and the blog.

Our articles are licensed using Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike which means you can republish them, as long as you credit the author and the blog, linking back to the original article. You cannot make editorial changes to the article without prior agreement and copyright of images should be respected (e.g. where these have been provided by guest bloggers etc.).

 

Possible themes to explore

  • Multilingual, interdisciplinary and non-traditional academic writing

  • Honest accounts of writer’s block, lost chapters, and writing through difficulty

  • Blog posts, policy briefs, op-eds and public writing.  Why PGRs should do it and how

  • How PGRs write (routines, spaces, tools and habits that work)

  • What PGRs wish they had known about the supervisor relationship

  • PGRs reflect on progression reviews, viva preparation, and the rites of passage of doctoral study

  • The practical skills PGRs had to figure out for themselves

  • Honest reflections on doing research in the field, in communities, across cultures, and under pressure

  • Preparing for what comes after inside and outside academia

  • Wellbeing, rest, chronic illness, and sustaining yourself through doctoral study