Writing Clinics for Doctoral Students at Judge
An academic writing resource at Cambridge Judge Business School
Welcome Judge doctoral students!
Cambridge Judge Business School offers PhD students access to one-to-one writing clinics as part of its doctoral training support.
These clinics are fully funded by the School. They are designed to support students with the writing aspects of their research—independently of topic, method, or discipline.
They exist to help you think more clearly through your writing, and to make your arguments more visible to academic readers.
Who runs the writing clinics?
The writing clinics are run by Tanvi Mehta.
Tanvi is an academic writing specialist with over two decades of experience working with academics, researchers, and doctoral students across business disciplines. She has helped many business faculty publish in top journals in their fields.
Her work focuses on:
academic argumentation
clarity of thinking through language
structure, flow, and reader orientation
helping writers make their ideas visible and persuasive.
Her expertise lies not in subject matter, but in understanding how strong arguments are built, communicated, and evaluated in written form.
This makes the clinics suitable for students across business fields.
Tanvi has taught academic writing workshops to business faculty and doctoral students at the following institutions: Aalto Business School, Cardiff Business School, Newcastle Business School, Queen Mary University of London, Indian School of Business, Institute of Management Technology Ghaziabad, Neoma Business School, ESCP, Toulouse Business School, Université de Bourgogne Europe, and Prague University of Economics and Business.
Writing support is different from supervision
Supervisors play a critical role in shaping your research direction, guiding theory and method, and ensuring disciplinary rigour.
Writing clinics serve a different, complementary purpose.
Many writing difficulties are not caused by gaps in knowledge, but by problems such as:
unclear argumentative structure
difficulty signalling contribution
paragraph-level confusion
uncertainty about tone, voice, or confidence
misalignment with reader expectations.
These are language-and-thinking problems.
They benefit from working with someone trained specifically in how writing functions as an intellectual tool—someone who can look closely at your text as a reader.
What students bring to a clinic
Students often come to clinics with concerns like:
“My supervisor says this isn’t clear, but I don’t know what to change.”
“I know what my contribution is, but it doesn’t come through on the page.”
“My writing feels dense or over-explained.”
“I keep revising, but the paper isn’t improving.”
“I’m unsure how confident or direct my writing should be.”
You do not need to arrive with a clearly defined problem.
Part of the clinic is identifying what kind of writing issue you’re dealing with.
What happens in a writing clinic
Writing clinics are one-to-one, text-based sessions.
Tanvi works directly with your draft to:
identify where readers may struggle to understand your writing
clarify the central argument and contribution
improve structure at section and paragraph level
revise selected passages together
draw out principles you can apply to future writing
The goal is not to “edit” your work, but to help you see your writing more clearly and make more deliberate choices as an academic writer.
