The Office of Faculty Affairs organizes and facilitates the VUSM Faculty Writing Group. The goal is to provide support, community, accountability, and feedback for scholars working on academic writing. Faculty members can work on any project during the writing groups – research articles, reviews, grant proposals, book chapters, etc. The intent of the writing group is to have a focused time and space for writing and to discuss writing issues with peers. Each meeting begins with a 30 minute discussion on a specific topic, followed by three 25 minute writing intervals, and concluding with each participating sharing their progress and any questions that have come up for them during their writing time.
Vivian Siegel, Ph.D., Research Professor of Medicine at Vanderbilt University, will facilitate the weekly writing group sessions. Vivian Siegel holds a Ph.D. in Genetics from the University of California, San Francisco. Dr. Siegel is also a Lecturer and Communications Lead at Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). She has served as Editor in Chief of Cell, Molecular Cell, Developmental Cell, and Disease Models & Mechanisms, Executive Director of the Public Library of Science, and Executive Editor of the Journal of the American Society of Nephrology. Dr. Siegel also founded the Center for Science Communication at Vanderbilt University, and served as Director of Scientific Education and Public Communication and as Director of Education and Outreach at the Broad Institute.
Groups meet weekly and members of the Writing Group commit to attending all sessions.
To express interest in joining the Writing Group, please fill out the survey at this link: https://redcap.link/tdvpj6e4
Contact Ashley Wood (ashley.wood@vumc.org) with any questions about the Faculty Writing Group.