The Scholarship Projects for Undergraduate Researchers (SPUR) scheme at Nottingham Trent University provides bursaries for undergraduates to work on research projects with academic staff in the summer vacation. The aims are to give the students work and research experience to foster connections between undergraduate and postgraduate communities to develop skills of benefit to their studies and to inform the curriculum so that a wide cohort of students benefit from the new knowledge. This case study examines the experiences of one student Samantha Lister working on the peer-reviewed journal Writing Technologies with lecturers in English Daniel Cordle and Philip Leonard and also considers the experiences of another student Esme Coulbert who worked with Carl Thompson and Betty Hagglund on the Maria Graham Project.
