Proactive digital tools to assist graduate researchers with productivity and wellbeing.

Write Smarter: Feel Better engages with your Honours, Masters and PhD students to augment existing supports within your faculty, school or university.

Strategy

The Write Smarter: Feel Better process is all about helping students have productive, supported and distraction free writing sessions.An app was planned to adapt the existing offline program into a mobile app for individual participants to gain wider, global use. The app was to follow the Pomodoro Technique, which involves a 20 minute silent writing period separated by 10 minutes of interactive well-being content. This cycle will then repeat within a four writing block session.

An app was planned to adapt the existing offline program into a mobile app for individual participants to gain wider, global use. The app was to follow the Pomodoro Technique, which involves a 20 minute silent writing period separated by 10 minutes of interactive well-being content. This cycle will then repeat within a four writing block session.

Deliverables

The app was planned, designed and build by Spark Digital in conjunction with the CRC for Mental Health team. The app allows users to set their desired writing block length; and prompt users with well-being components in a 10 minute break. The Write Smarter: Feel Better program has been featured in Nature – the international journal of science.