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Research School Irregular
Published: Monday, 20 May 2019A newsletter for PGR
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PRES is Done; CS is #1 (in response rate)
After 8 weeks of relentless nagging, the Postgraduate Research Experience Survey is completed! Thanks to everyone: The students who participated, the students who endured endless email from Bijan, and a special shout out to the Mentors, as well as the inhabitants of Kilburn 2.89 (Christian, Crystal, Ghader, and Haoruo), for their individual efforts to increase our response rate.
The School of Computer Science had the highest response rate of all schools in the University at 89.2%, soundly beating Maths (81.9%), Social Sciences (81.9%), and AMBS (74.50%). That's a leap of 36 points and 13 places over 2017! Well done all. There is a coffee machine in your future.
We will get the school level data in early June and the sector wide results by the end of June. We'll take a bit of time to digest the results and reach out to you all to figure out next steps.
Remember, we welcome and value your feedback at any time!
Bijan Parsia
Peer Writing Support & Shut Up and Write Sessions
Peer Writing Support
Are you looking for help to develop your academic writing? Sara Clinch is hoping to start a short supportive session to facilitate peer-feedback that will help develop both writing and critical reading.
How Will It Work?
Attendees will be expected to bring a short piece of writing (~300-500 words). This can be a piece of writing that you were writing anyway, or a response to the week's writing prompt (writing prompts will be sent weekly using the mailing list). Attendees will be expected to read others texts, and to provide constructive feedback. Sessions are critical, but non-judgemental.
Where?
Kilburn 1.10 on a Tuesday, 2:00-2:30pm. The first meeting is on Tuesday 21st May and weekly thereafter.
Note that sessions are only 30 minutes in length, and are immediately followed by Shut Up and Write. Please attend promptly so that there is time for good feedback.
How Do I Find Out More?There is a mailing list for further notifications/discussion (Kilburn-acwrite@listserv.manchester.ac.uk), but feel free to just drop in. To subscribe: https://listserv.manchester.ac.uk/cgi-bin/wa?A0=KILBURN-ACWRITE
Shut Up and Write
To help make more time for writing, Sarah Clinch is experimenting with Shut Up and Write (SUAW). Perhaps you might want to join her?
There have been SUAW groups at Manchester at the past, but it’s not obvious that these are ongoing. For this reason, we have booked out room 1.10 on a Tuesday, 2:50-4pm. We’ll meet for the first time on Tuesday 21st May and weekly thereafter.
There is a mailing list for further notifications/discussion (Kilburn-SUAW@listserv.manchester.ac.uk), but feel free to just drop in. To subscribe: https://listserv.manchester.ac.uk/cgi-bin/wa?A0=KILBURN-SUAW
What is Shut Up and Write?
This is a no-distractions space to foster a short period of focused writing. Write reports, blogs, grants, papers, poems, whatever. No-one will see what you’ve written, no judgement, just two short blocks of focused writing time.
Schedule
2:30. Settling time.
2:45. First 25 minute writing block. No chat.
3:10. 5 minute break. Stretch and refocus.
3:15. Second 25 minute writing block. No chat.
3:40. The end. Chat, leave or keep writing (room booking runs until 4pm).
