PACE stands for Professional Academic Communication in English. PACE is part of the Open University's Graduate School and offers activities and opportunities aimed at developing  researcher expertise and confidence in a range of academic writing, publishing and presentation practices. For specific enquiries about PACE, as well as guest speaker suggestions, contact Julia Molinari: pace@open.ac.uk .

PACE was originally founded by Professor Theresa Lillis and colleagues based in what is now the School of Languages and Applied Linguistics (LAL) at the OU. PACE retains its collaboration between LAL and the Graduate School. The link with academic writing research continues via PACE’s former academic co-ordinator and current adviser, Dr Jackie Tuck, a Senior Lecturer in LAL with interests in academic literacies, particularly in how university teachers and supervisors work with student writers. She is author of Academics Engaging with Student Writing: Working at the higher education textface. Jackie can be contacted at jackie.tuck@open.ac.uk. 

PACE Lecturer Dr Julia Molinari has a PhD in Academic Writing from the University of Nottingham and is author of  What Makes Writing Academic: Re-thinking  Theory for Practice (Bloomsbury, 2022). Her background is in Education and Philosophy. She has taught EAP (English for Academic Purposes), academic literacies and research writing at several universities in Italy and the UK. Before joining the Graduate School, she taught EAP and research writing for 13 years at the University of Nottingham’s School of Education, UK.