WORKERS across Worcestershire and Herefordshire are being encouraged to write a short account of their working day for a new community project.

Bernard Cohen, the writer-in-residence at University College Worcester (UCW), is trying to discover the processes that people go through at work as well as hear about any unusual incidents.

The project is currently on-line at writing.worc.ac.uk and all accounts will be featured on the website.

Anyone who is in work, looking for work, or has retired can join the project.

"I already have accounts from a Malvern Conservator and a publicist at a zoo," said Mr Cohen, who has been at UCW for three months.

"I'm sending out information to lots of businesses as I'd like people from all sorts of work to write.

"My sense is that less and less people have permanent jobs anymore, it's more about contracts.

"The way that farmers work has been shown to be not as local as it once was."

Mr Cohen, whose most recent work is set to be published in Australia in the near future, said even his job has changed over the past 20 years.

"When I started writing in the early 80s it seemed like the least secure way of going in terms of a career path," he said.

"There are lots of opportunities out there."

The project, called Life and Work in the Hereford and Worcester Region, will be ongoing until Mr Cohen's residency ends in September next year.

It is hoped that all entries will be able to be viewed on the website.

People can write about a typical day in their work as well as a short piece on what they do when things are quiet.

Anyone interested in finding out more can visit the website at http://writing.worc.ac.uk. Entries can be submitted via an electronic form or by email.