It allowed participants a distraction free time to write, speak to and seek feedback from other colleagues. The event was specifically aimed at writing collaborative papers for external publication.

Dr Syam Rasaratnam acted as a facilitator, as well as arranging and managing the writing retreat. Several members of University staff participated in the event.

Professor Teerooven Soobaroyen, Professor of Accounting from the University of Essex, was invited as a speaker.

The event was very successful and Ied to the development of several joint papers among the participants.

Feedback from the Writing Retreat

“I wish to use this opportunity to say a big thank you for inviting me to this writing retreat."

"It was quite a good eye opener for me. The speaker is very experienced and I learnt a lot from what he said."

"Some of the comments of the speaker still rang in my ears and I am planning to put into use everything."

"I hope you will continue to organise such small group retreat/workshop to remind us of the way to go about conducting and disseminating research output.“

“This Retreat was very helpful for me. I benefitted a lot out of it, especially on how I can publish academic papers. I believe it is important to have more of such courses.”

“The course was really excellent.”