Workshops and Info Sessions
The Fellowships & Writing Center offers a range of workshops that aim to facilitate your professional development as a scholar.
The Fellowships & Writing Center (FWC) offers workshops throughout the year to facilitate your professional development as a scholar. Our workshops range from informational panels on fellowships and research to interactive sessions in which we work on targeted writing skills or discuss project management strategies.
Workshops and other programming are announced on Engage, in the FWC newsletter On Grants and Prose, and in other Harvard Griffin GSAS communications.
We also partner with the Academic Resource Center and the Mignone Center for Career Success to bring you events such as "What I Wish I Had Known about Summer for PhD Students."
See upcoming events below or visit the events calendar for more FWC events.
In the Spotlight
Creating Writing Habits
- Wednesday, September 25, 2:00 p.m.–3:00 p.m. (Zoom)
- Thursday, September 26, 2:00 p.m.–3:00 p.m. (in person)
One of the most powerful ways to achieve your writing goals is to establish good habits. This workshop will cover strategies for developing a regular writing habit and ways to stay on track when your habits seem to falter.
Keep an eye out for more details on all our workshops in our biweekly newsletter, On Grants and Prose, as well as on the FWC page on Engage. (To view events, you must sign in to Engage.)
Upcoming Schedule
Revision for Concision: Strategies for Shortening and Tightening Your Writing
- Wednesday, October 2, 4:00 p.m.–5:00 p.m. (Zoom)
- Thursday, October 3, 2:00 p.m.–3:00 p.m. (in person)
Writing Science for a General Audience
Harvard Traveling Fellowships and Merit/Term-Time Fellowships: Information Sessions
- Wednesday, October 9, 3:30 p.m.–4:30 p.m. (Zoom)
- Thursday, October 10, 2:00 p.m.–3:00 p.m. (in person)
Writing the Prospectus (registration links to follow)
- Tuesday, October 22, 4:00 p.m.–5:00 p.m. (in person)
- Wednesday, October 23, 4:00 p.m.–5:00 p.m. (Zoom)
- Peer Review Session: Wednesday, November 12, 4:00–5:00 p.m. (Zoom)
Writing and Generative AI (registration links to follow)
- Wednesday, November 6, 2:00 p.m.–3:00 p.m. (Zoom)
- Thursday, November 7, 2:00 p.m.–3:00 p.m. (in person)
Past Workshops
Other past workshops have included:
- Fulbright-Hays DDRA Program
- Demystifying the Finish Line: A Dissertation Workshop
- Perspectives on Pitching and Publishing
- Writing the Prospectus
- Overcoming Writing Obstacles
- The Art of the Conference Presentation
- Establishing a Writing Practice
- Crafting Introductions and Conclusions
- Strategies for Revising Academic Work
- Research Statement Workshop
- Merit and Traveling Fellowships Information Session
- Fulbright US Student Program Information Session
- NSF GRFP Information Session
You can find recordings of some of these workshops on the FWC Canvas site.
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