Focus – Are you spending hours editing your candidates' drafts? There's a better way. This workshop shows you how to shift from editor to writing mentor, helping candidates develop as writers while actually reducing your workload.

In this interactive online session, you'll learn:

Why traditional editing approaches often slow down candidate progress
How to give feedback that develops writing capability
Practical strategies for supporting neurodivergent writers
Ways to intervene earlier in the writing process
Time-saving frameworks for giving effective feedback

You'll leave with practical tools and techniques you can implement immediately with your candidates. Perfect for new supervisors, but experienced supervisors will also gain fresh perspectives on writing development.

This workshop challenges traditional approaches to supervisor feedback, showing you how to:

Break the cycle of waiting for complete drafts
Help candidates become independent writers
Create clear expectations around writing and feedback
Support different thinking and writing styles
Speed up progression to submission

Lead – Professor Inger Mewburn is the Director of Researcher Development at The Australian National University, but she is better known as @Thesiswhisperer on the internet. Aside from running workshops for ANU researchers, she creates new posts on the Thesis Whisperer blog, writes scholarly papers and authors books about research education. She has special interests in post PhD employability, research communications and neurodivergence.

Note: This workshop will be delivered via Zoom (Zoom information). To join this Zoom Meeting:

Meeting URL: https://anu.zoom.us/j/81939427709?pwd=dN4QgvoGuiVl6ZibzIeAoEuXxQe1Uo.1
Meeting ID: 819 3942 7709
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If you have any problems joining this Zoom meeting please email: hdr.supervision@anu.edu.au

Please note: A recording of this workshop will be made and the video (which will include audio) will be made available (after the workshop has finished) on the HDR Supervision Portal (https://wattlecourses.anu.edu.au/course/view.php?id=27437).