Get Help with your Academic Writing from a Professional Writer - Postgraduate Researchers

Daunted by that thesis? Overwhelmed by research? Your Royal Literary Fund Writing Fellow can help face the challenges associated with your PGR study.

Royal Literary Fund (RLF) fellows are professional, published writers placed in universities throughout the UK to advise students on their academic writing.

Our RLF Fellow offers free, confidential support to postgraduate research students.

Possible topics might include:        

• making the most of your research 
• structuring your argument 
• writing clearly 
• critical thinking 
• rewriting and editing 
• how to find your writing “voice”  

Please note that this service: 

• Is only available to students currently in the UK (you cannot have an online session when you are abroad). 
• Is not suitable for students who require specialised English language help (e.g. TEFL, EAP) who should seek help from the university. 
• Is not suitable for students seeking specialist help relating to disability or neurodiversity. 

Booking an Appointment  

Appointments with RLF Fellows are: 

• 50-minute, one-to-one sessions 
• Usually in person, in the Centre for Academic Development (46/48 College Bounds), but online bookings can be requested where necessary (as long as you are in the UK). 
• Available on Wednesdays and Thursdays, between 10am and 5pm (last appointment 4pm) during term time  

To book your session, please email your RLF Fellow directly at: genevieve.carver@rlfeducation.org.uk

About Our Writing Fellow  

Genevive Carver is an award-winning writer and performer whose work has spanned poetry, theatre, music, screenwriting and children’s fiction. She is the author of three books of poetry: A Beautiful Way to be Crazy (Verve Poetry Press 2020) Landsick (Broken Sleep Books 2023) and Birds / Humans / Machines / Dolphins (Guillemot Press 2024). The latest of these works was written in residence with the University of Aberdeen’s School of Biological Sciences in response to ecological fieldwork studying seabirds, dolphins and porpoises in Orkney and North-East Scotland, for which she won The Moth Nature Writing Prize 2022.  

Genevieve has performed at literary events and festivals from London’s Roundhouse to the Edinburgh Fringe, Lagos International Poetry Festival in Nigeria to Banff Mountain Film and Book Festival in Canada. She is also an experienced tutor, mentor and facilitator for adults and children of all ages.