Shut up and Write (NO LONGER RUNNING)
Duration 0.5 days
Team Researcher Academy
This series is delivered by the Researcher Academy 

Researcher Academy courses are very popular and the majority are run in both semesters to give you the opportunity to attend at a time of the year that suits you. Semester 1 courses will be available for booking from the second week of October and Semester 2 courses from the second week of February.

Target audience: Postgraduate Taught and Postgraduate Students and Early Career Research Staff only.

The “Shut up and Write” series is designed to help you focus when writing. The sessions are a structured session where you write in timed intervals. In order to get the most out of the sessions, you should bring something to write as the sessions are focused around writing.


You will need to bring with you:

  • Writing materials – pen, paper or a laptop (fully charged) if you use one.
  • Any documents/resources – papers, field-notes, interview data etc.

The session starts with a brief introduction and is then broken into 4 cycles: 

- Introduction: 5 minutes

- Cycle 1: Writing – 25 minutes 
- 5 minute break
- Cycle 2: Writing – 25 minutes 
- 5 minute break
- Cycle 3: Writing – 25 minutes
- 5 minute break
- Cycle 4: Writing – 25 minutes

The writing period is 100 minutes long – please remember to bring something to write.


You are invited to bring your own lunch to consume after the session has finished.

For this series, you only need to register for your first session. If you would like to attend more than one session, please email pg-training@nottingham.ac.uk who will happily book you onto future sessions. Please note you can attend any of the sessions.

This is not a training course, but a concentrated period for writing. 

Pre-Requisites You are invited to bring your own lunch to consume after the session is finished
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  • When booking on to a Researcher Academy short course you are entering into a commitment to attend. If you find that you are no longer available to attend you MUST cancel your place (on the system if more than three days before the course) or if at short notice by emailing pg-training@nottingham.ac.uk. This will ensure that your place can be offered to another researcher on the waiting list. Failure to cancel a place results in other researchers missing out on places through the waiting list process.
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