Turbo-charging Your Writing
Practical information
- Audience: Postdocs and research staff at Queen’s University Belfast
- Date/Time: 25 September 2025 | 09:30 - 11:30
- Duration: 2 hours
- Location: Online
- Organised by: Researcher Development (researchfutures@qub.ac.uk)
Content
This course will teach you how to maximise your writing output and how to overcome common obstacles that reduce your writing productivity by:
- setting a goal and guaranteeing you achieve it
- producing double the number of words compared to your usual output
- get more written in two hours a day than in eight
- dealing with writer's block and procrastination
- not obsessing over the quality of writing
- not letting distractions get in the way of your writing
- not thinking your writing or research is good enough
- working well with your supervisor to improve your writing
- actually finishing your research on the date you set!
Registration
Registration for this course is done on iTrent. The link below should take you directly to this course however, you can also open iTrent and search using the course's name.
Facilitator
Hugh Kearns | ThinkWell
Hugh Kearns is recognised internationally as a public speaker, educator and researcher. He regularly lectures at universities worldwide, including Oxford, Cambridge, Harvard, Berkeley, and Stanford. His areas of expertise include self-management, positive psychology, work-life balance, learning and creativity. He draws on over 25 years of experience as a leading training and development professional within the corporate, financial, education, and health sectors in Ireland, Scotland, North America, New Zealand, and Australia. He has coached individuals, teams and executives in a wide range of organisations in the public and private sectors and has written twelve books on these topics. Hugh has also had several articles published in the prestigious journal 'Nature'.
Hugh is passionate about supervision and delivers workshops on this topic to students and supervisors. He co-wrote the book "Supervising PhD Students: A practical guide and toolkit".
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