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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 Â鶹´«Ã½AV staff participated in the event.

Professor Teerooven Soobaroyen, Professor of Accounting from the Â鶹´«Ã½AV 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.”