Roisin Cronin
BA (Trinity College Dublin, Ireland), MA (University of York, UK):
As a writing coach and instructor, Roisin has helped hundreds of young researchers to get published. Since 2011, she has been head of the WZB Berlin Social Science Center’s Academic Writing Clinic, an editing-coaching service that helps PhD candidates and postdocs to improve their English-language writing. Roisin is also an experienced seminar leader who trained in freewriting-based teaching methods at Bard College’s Institute for Writing and Thinking in Annandale-on-Hudson, New York, USA. She has used these unique and innovative methods to develop seminars that engage, entertain, and edify, delivering them at the Max Planck Institute for Human Development, the Barenboim-Said Akademie, and the WZB Berlin Social Science Center among others. Since 2009, Roisin has also worked as a copy editor and translator of a host of social science articles and books. Prior to her work as a writing coach, editor, and translator, Roisin taught English as a foreign language in companies throughout Berlin and Brandenburg and studied social science at Trinity College Dublin and the University of York, UK. As a teacher, her motto is that you should never expect your students to do something you wouldn’t be willing to do yourself. With that in mind, she embraces the student role as an enthusiastic creative writing seminar participant and sometime writer of creative nonfiction.
Notable publications she has worked on include European Solidarity in Times of Crisis (Jürgen Gerhards, Holger Lengfeld, Zsófia Ignácz, Florian Kley, & Maximilian Priem, Routledge, 2020) Social Class and Transnational Human Capital: How Middle and Upper Class Parents Prepare Their Children for Globalization (Jürgen Gerhards, Silke Hans, & Sören Carlson, Routledge, 2017) and Consent and Control in the Authoritarian Workplace: Russia and China Compared (Martin Krzywdzinski, Oxford University Press, 2018).