Somehow, we’ve already reached the penultimate month of 2024! With it comes Bonfire Night for the Brits, Thanksgiving for the Americans and International Marooned Without a Compass Day for everyone else (who knew?). Read on to see what PGRH has in store for you this month!
Academic Writing Month (AcWriMo)
As most of you will already know, today is the kick off of AcWriMo hosted on PGRH. If you’ve not already, you can have a look at this page of our website for an overview of the event! We’ve revived and renamed the #🖋︱acwrimo-2024 channel for chatter this year, you can track your word counts using the Writing Bot in #✍︱writing-bots and for the community vibe the coworking channel is always open for you!
Naomi is helping us kick off the event TODAY (November 1st) in Site Events with a workshop about getting started with long-form writing projects. Don’t worry if you can’t be there live, we’ll host it on a private Vimeo link for the next two weeks so you can catch up in your own time. On the other side of the month Joshua will lead a wrap-up in Site Events to reflect on our writing and plan how to bring our work forward on Saturday, November 30th. Happy writing!
Trans Awareness Week
Trans Awareness Week runs from November 13 to November 19. In the run up, we have done a small server audit and consulted with some of our members of the trans community to ensure this remains a safe and welcoming space for all! Off the back of that here’s what we’ve done…
- Christian has graciously offered to hold an open space for us to observe Trans Awareness Week on Friday, November 15th in Site Events at to answer any questions server members might have and share from his knowledge and experience.
- Christian has also collated a Trans Awareness Resources page, which is now live on our website!
- We’ve given the #👍︱reaction-roles channel a much needed revamp and introduced long overdue pronoun roles! Please select the role matching your preferred pronouns to have them pop up in your member card for the server. (Note: don’t worry if you can’t see your reactions in the new posts, your roles are still intact!)
- We’ve updated the logo to include the trans pride flag for most of November!
PGRH Birthday
Break out the birthday hats and candles, Postgraduate Research Hub’s second birthday is just around the corner! To celebrate, we wanted to start a server tradition and take some time to share our favourite memories about our (not-so-little-anymore) community. To help do so, we’ve put together a short Google form with a few questions about your favorite, funniest, and fondest memories related to PGRH. At the end of the month, we’ll celebrate our birthday by sharing these stories with the server (with your approval of course). We can’t wait to walk down memory lane with you and get the 2nd birthday party started!
November Events
For your viewing pleasure please see below for this month’s server events. A big thanks to Jana (Monday Poms) , Naomi (AcWriMo Kickoff), Christian (Trans Awareness Week), and Minim (Coffee Hour) for hosting events for us this month!
Until next time, stay curious, stay caffeinated, stay connected!