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Our contact email address for comments, complaints, and compliments is provided in our contact details.
Our business is organising and running academic writing retreats, and events such as as the International Creative Research Methods Conference.
A place at one of our events is secured by payment, which must be made via this website, by card or by bank transfer. We cannot accept cheques. You have the right to cancel and receive a full refund within 15 days of making payment, including the day that payment is made. After that date no refunds will be available. You may transfer your place to another person and if you do so, you must notify us of that person’s name and email address.
Invoice payment terms are 30 days from date of invoice. If a 30-day invoice is not paid within 60 days, we will cancel the invoice, issue a credit note, and the place at the event will no longer be reserved for you. It is your responsibility to ensure that the invoice for your place is paid within this time frame.
FAQ
How do you set the prices?
We work to keep prices as low as possible while making the events financially viable.
Are your prices negotiable?
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Can you invoice my organisation for payment?
No, we can only take payment by card or bank transfer, in advance. This is because payment for invoices often needs to be chased up, sometimes via outsourced suppliers of invoice management with no named person to contact, and this can be very time consuming. We are a small organisation and we do not have enough person-power to do this unpaid work. Also we cannot afford the risk of invoices going unpaid.
Can I book Helen Kara to speak at or run an event at my organisation?
Yes, subject to her availability; she is usually booked up several months ahead. Send us an email saying what you want and when, and someone will get back to you, usually within five working days.
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Creative Research Methods Ltd does not use cookies or any kind of user tracking mechanisms on its website.
Information solicited from users (for example, for bursary applications or event bookings) is never used for advertising or promotion, and is never shared with third parties other than as necessary to fulfil your wish to apply for a bursary or take up a place at an event.
Contact Us
You can contact Creative Research Methods Ltd by email via enquiries@creativeresearchmethods.com
Our postal address is:
The Office St Mary's Crescent Uttoxeter Staffordshire ST14 7BH United Kingdom
Terms & Conditions
Our contact email address for comments, complaints, and compliments is provided in our contact details.
Our business is organising and running academic writing retreats, and events such as as the International Creative Research Methods Conference.
A place at one of our events is secured by payment, which must be made via this website, by card or by bank transfer. We cannot accept cheques. You have the right to cancel and receive a full refund within 15 days of making payment, including the day that payment is made. After that date no refunds will be available. You may transfer your place to another person and if you do so, you must notify us of that person’s name and email address.
Invoice payment terms are 30 days from date of invoice. If a 30-day invoice is not paid within 60 days, we will cancel the invoice, issue a credit note, and the place at the event will no longer be reserved for you. It is your responsibility to ensure that the invoice for your place is paid within this time frame.
FAQ
How do you set the prices?
We work to keep prices as low as possible while making the events financially viable.
Are your prices negotiable?
No.
Can you invoice my organisation for payment?
No, we can only take payment by card or bank transfer, in advance. This is because payment for invoices often needs to be chased up, sometimes via outsourced suppliers of invoice management with no named person to contact, and this can be very time consuming. We are a small organisation and we do not have enough person-power to do this unpaid work. Also we cannot afford the risk of invoices going unpaid.
Can I book Helen Kara to speak at or run an event at my organisation?
Yes, subject to her availability; she is usually booked up several months ahead. Send us an email saying what you want and when, and someone will get back to you, usually within five working days.
Carving out space to write can be difficult; making space for creativity even more so. This Creative Writing for Research retreat at Gladstone’s Library provides an opportunity to spend a week immersing yourself in the creativity of your writing and building a community of peers, and will combine teaching and independent, peer-supported writing.
The Venue
This retreat will be based at Gladstone's Library, Hawarden, Wales (map), the UK’s only residential library. Founded in 1889, this Grade 1 listed building has been hosting writers since 1906. There are no lifts, but all communal facilities are on the ground floor, as are two accessible en suite bedrooms.
The People
The retreat is facilitated by Dr Helen Kara and Dr Lucy Pickering. Helen has been an independent researcher since 1999, specialising in research methods – particularly creative methods – and ethics. She is a prolific writer who regularly teaches creative academic writing to early career and postgraduate researchers around the world. Helen argues that writing is the method which hides in plain sight, and wonders why it is not routinely covered in research methods textbooks (it is in hers!).
Lucy has been an academic since 2008, working as an anthropologist in health and social science departments across three UK universities. She has been teaching qualitative research methods, ethnography and ethics at undergraduate and postgraduate level for over a decade. Lucy has supervised ten PhD theses to completion (and examined a further fifteen), from anthropology to epidemiology and engineering, supporting students to develop disciplinary, interdisciplinary and cross-disciplinary writing skills.
Accessibility
The ground floor of the Library is accessible for wheelchair users, including all the facilities used for the retreat, and there are two accessible bedrooms are on the ground floor. The upper floors are unfortunately not wheelchair-accessible because the Library is a listed building with no lift.
Transport
Hawarden is close to the English border and six miles from Chester. Hawarden train station and the village bus stops are within a few minutes’ walk of the Library. By train, Chester is two hours from London, just over an hour from Manchester, and 40 minutes from Liverpool. Hawarden is 25 minutes from Wrexham by train, or 40 minutes by bus from Chester.
Free parking is available at the Library.
The Timetable
The retreat runs from 3pm on Monday 4 December to 12 noon on Friday 8 December. There will be morning and afternoon taught sessions, for those who wish to attend them; optional one-to-one sessions with Helen and/or Lucy; and lots of time to write. The taught sessions will focus on creative writing and will also cover tips and advice on productivity, the ethics of research writing, writing for different audiences, and writing for your research career (whether academic, practice-based, or independent). And if you wish, you can have two 20-minute one-to-one sessions, each with one of the tutors, with an opportunity to send us up to 1,000 words of your writing before the retreat for assessment and feedback.
