4  Semester 1 Week 7

4.1 Discussing the bullet point intros, participant recruitment, reducing perfectionism

In this session, we go through everyone’s bullet point intros. These are usually between half a page and a full page of A4, and don’t need to be concrete.

We’ll then cover participant recruitment. If we have time, we’ll look at reducing perfectionism and discuss this as a group. If the bullet point intros take longer than expected, I’ll pass the resources on to the students to review outside the session.

4.1.1 Expected progress

  • Around now, I would expect most ethics applications to be submitted (or in the final stages of draft) (especially if it’s going through College rather than the intranet)
  • Students will have made a rough outline of their introduction and will have done background reading
  • I will usually ask students to pick a deadline for their Introduction around now, adding it to the shared deadlines spreadsheet

4.1.2 Bullet point introductions

  • We then spend most of the session discussing the bullet point introductions.
    • Each person talks about their project and what they currently think about for their introduction in terms of structure
    • I will then give some feedback on these and students can also ask questions etc.
    • It’s quite a good opportunity for the whole group to understand what everyone is doing for their project

4.1.3 Participant recruitment

  • If we have time, I will cover participant recruitment first, then reducing perfectionism
    • What are students’ plans for recruitment?
    • Do they foresee any difficulties? If so, is there anything we can put in place now to mitigate these?
    • Things to think about:
      • What are the backup plans? What if the students need to recruit more people?
      • Are any gatekeepers needed?

4.1.4 Reducing perfectionism

  • I talk about perfectionism and how it can be quite a big barrier in terms of not wanting to ‘let go’ of things
    • Remind students that a draft is just that: a draft. It’s not the final version and doesn’t need to be seen by anyone else.
  • I talk about my own experiences of it as a student and what I found helped me:
    • Breaking things into small chunks
    • Reminding myself that feedback will help make it stronger in the end
  • I tend to add the below external resources to Teams and let students engage with them if they want

4.2 External resources

Dr Carolina Kuepper-Tetzel found these resources on Perfection Paralysis on the Hidden Curriclum website (contains lots of useful resources)