SSPSSR student Hannah Perrin has won the Graduate School’s Postgraduate Experience Award for a project supporting postgraduate students.
The innovative “Shut Up and Write!” scheme helps postgraduate students across the whole University to meet their writing targets as they progress through their degree. “Shut Up and Write!” – or SUAW – involves a group of students that meet once a month for coffee and cookies, then a 30-minute countdown starts; during which there must be no talking, mobile phones, or internet access – just writing; then a quick break, and another writing period.
The aim is to get words down on paper, whether or not they need editing afterwards. Award winner Hannah, a second year PhD candidate in Social Policy said, “As someone who suffers from chronic procrastinitis, the group is a really useful way to make yourself accountable for the writing you’ve been putting off.”
The group meets on the last Wednesday of every month and all postgraduate students are welcome – details are on the University Events Calendar.