10:30 – 10:45 Elena Bazanova, PhD Welcome Address to Conference Participants - President of the Association of Academic Writing Experts “National Writing Centres Consortium”
10:45 – 11:00 Jennifer Uhler, PhD Welcome Address to Conference Participants Regional English Language Officer based in Tallinn
11:00 – 11:30 Title: Jonathan McFarland Associate Professor in the Faculty of Medicine at Universidad Autonoma de Madrid and as Senior Lecturer at the Institute of Linguistics, I.M. Sechenov First Moscow State Medical University.
11:30 – 11:55 Title: Optimising the use of English in research writing Neil Watson British journalist and editor, UK
11:55 – 12:25 Title: Teaching Research Writing: The Case for Subject Specialists With Linguistic Competence Valerie Matarese, PhD Authors' editor and docent of research writing in the biomedical sciences, Vidor (TV), Italy.
12:25 – 12:50 Title: The Role of Complex Adaptive Systems in Academic Identity and Technology Development Philip McCarthy, PhD PhD, Professor, the American University of Sharjah, UAE.
12:50 – 13:20 Title: Effective Assessment Criteria for Academic Literacy in English Karen Ottewell, PhD Director of Academic Development & Training for International Students section at the University of Cambridge, UK.
13:20 – 14:20 Workshop: Co-authorship as a Form of ERPP Supervision: Negotiating Co-authorship Practices During the Writing and Publishing Processes Magnus Gustafsson, PhD Associate professor at Chalmers University of Technology, Department of Learning and Communication, Sweden Baraa Khuder, PhD Post-doctoral researcher at Chalmers University of Technology, Department of Learning and Communication, Sweden
14:20 – 15:20 Workshop: Clear English Editing Christa Bedwin Senior Technical Editor, Instructor, Earth, Environmental, and Geographic Sciences, University of British Columbia, Canada
15:50 – 16:20 Title: Designing Successful Academic Writing Workshops: Blending Support, Explicit Instruction, and Insider Socialization Kelly Metz-Matthews English Language Fellow working at NUST MISIS, Academic Writing Office, Russia.
15:20 – 15:50 Title: How Can Language Professionals Contribute to Academic Publication?" Ron Martinez, PhD The University of Nottingham, Associate Editor of the Oxford University Press journal Applied Linguistics, USA.
16:20 – 16:40 Title: Getting to the Bottom of It: The Importance of Topic Closers to L2 Student-Writing Anuja Thomas MS, Arizona State University, USA.
