Rowena Murray’s Online Thesis ‘Endgame’ Workshop

People aiming to get back on track to finish a Doctoral thesis

During lockdown and after, while we’re working from home, writing can slip onto the back burner. We all have other demands on our time – childcare, home schooling, caring and much more. I created this course to help people carve out a way to complete a thesis.

The silver lining of going online is that people have joined this course from Australia, Canada, Hong Kong, India, Ireland, USA, the Nordic countries, across the UK and Scotland.

This Endgame course is likely to be most helpful for students who want to submit a Doctoral thesis in the next 6-12 months – even if you haven’t completed all your chapters yet.

This is how it works: over 4 weeks I introduce 4 writing strategies to move a thesis forward towards completion or first full draft. Each meeting includes one hour of dedicated writing time, you write a piece each week, and I offer group and individual feedback. Time is included for discussing your writing with others on this course, which people on previous courses found useful and motivating

Tasks

These are the four writing strategies designed to help you develop your thesis argument:

Writing a 750-word thesis summary

Writing a 300-word thesis abstract

Writing introductory paragraphs for all thesis chapters

Writing the thesis Conclusion chapter.

By signing up for this course, you commit to discussing and sharing your four pieces of writing with other course participants and with me, for individual feedback.

When – 4 mornings over 4 weeks, meeting every week from 9.30am-12.30, UK time.

Cost – £200 per person (VAT not payable) Dates – 2025 May 7, 14, 21 and 28, 9.30-12.30

To check dates and book a place – email r.e.g.murray@btinternet.com