Event Details

21 Oct-23 Dec 2026 (10-weeks online). There is enormous prestige involved in having published in an academic arena: the focus of this 10-week course will be on the successful placement of your writing in an academic/and or commercial journal or the acceptance of a proposal for a monograph or book.

Course Overview

The primary aim of the course is to produce a piece of writing for academic and/or commercial publication.

This writing could be in the form of an article for a journal in fields such as coaching, business or sales. There will also be the opportunity to explore how to write a proposal for a monograph or book in your chosen field. The course is rooted in education, not training and, as such, will engage with critical thinking and reflective analysis.

Course Description

“The Power of Words” will support you to make a solid contribution to academic and practice knowledge, a contribution that will set you apart from your fellow practitioners.

There will be specified reading for each workshop. The reading is relevant, never too lengthy, and always illuminating. Some of the skills you will hone include:

• How to craft clear, consistent, and compelling arguments;

• How to revise for clarity and conciseness;

• How to improve the quality of your communication – both verbal and non-verbal.

Delivery

The 10x 60-minute classes are all on Teams and are designed as discussion sessions. There will be pre-reading every week that the students are expected to analyse so that they can participate in these discussions on a weekly basis. There will be brief writing exercises throughout the course.

Target audience

Team leaders, executives, post-graduates, doctoral candidates. Anyone with an interest in improving their writing skills and interested in joining a public conversation by disseminating their work widely.

Course Dates

This is a 10-week course (Wednesdays 9.00am- 10.00am)

October 21, 28, November 4, 11, 18, 25, December 2, 9, 16, 23 - inclusive.

There are 12 spaces on this course. You must be able to commit to attending all sessions.

Tutor Biography

Dr Christine A. Eastman is a Teaching Fellow at Lancaster University. Her research centres on professional practice, leadership, and the re-conceptualisation of continuing professional development. Dr Eastman also contributes to the MSc leadership programme at Middlesex University where she lectures on the integration of American literature into a business curriculum as well as contribute to various leadership initiatives through a literary lens. She is the author of Coaching for Professional Development: Using Literature to Support Success (Routledge, 2019), Improving Workplace Learning by Teaching Literature: Towards Wisdom (Springer, 2016), and What Twenty-first Century Leadership Can Learn from Nineteenth Century American Literature (Oxford University Press, 2024). She is also the editor of Transforming Sales Leadership: Real Stories from Sales Practitioners (Routledge, 2024), and editor of Radical Retirement: The Reinvention of Self After Work (forthcoming Routledge April 2026).