Writing Workshop Weekend:
Getting It Right: Crime detection techniques and research

Your weekend schedule:

Saturday 4th September

9.30-10.00 Arrive/register/coffee

10.00-11.00 Bodies in the backyard, bones in the bed
Dr Nicholas Marquez-grant
Orchid Cellmark Forensics

11.00-11.15 BREAK

11.15-12.00 The devil is in the detail
Anatomies & analyses

12.00-1.00 LUNCH

1.00-2.30 Under the microscope:
scrutinising texts – your own and
other people’s

2.30-3.00 BREAK

3.00-4.00 The right tools for the job:
Using research effectively

Sandra Cromey, Head of Customer Services (Library)
Oxford Brookes University

4.00-4.15 BREAK

4.15-5.30 Focusing the lens:
selecting the details

7.30 DINNER in College (Extra)

Sunday 5th September

9.00-9.45 Assembling the evidence:
what do your readers need to know?

9.45-10.00 BREAK

10.00-11.00 Up close and personal:
The tools and tricks of a private investigator

Pierre V. Nortje
White Cross Security Services

11.00-11.15 BREAK

11.15-12.30 Checking your kit

12.30-1.30 LUNCH

1.30-3.00 Leading the witness:
laying down tracks

Guest Speaker

3.00-3.15
What next?

3.15-3.45 BREAK

3.45-5.00 The murder book: slipping between the covers

5.30 LEAVE