This week has been taken up with a range of meetings, external examining and the presentations on the research development day and other sessions. The academic team, Tom and Sara on Monday discussed some future proposed research on the MA Academic Practice. On Tuesday I was external examining at the Open University for the day.
Wednesday was the research development day and Professor Paul Curran opened the day and Jo Bradford provided the plenary session on the “REF”. The remainder of the day was focused on sessions about working with your supervisor effectively, preparing for your Viva, presenting at a conference, writing for academic purposes and qualitative data collection and analysis to name a few. The final session was three students presenting their experiences of being a PhD student. There is a formal evaluation of the day but anecdotally those I spoke to said they had enjoyed the day and found it useful.
Thursday Keri, Annemarie and I had budget meetings and a meeting about the move in our office with space being increased for ADU and some reduction for us. Those who are being moved round are the support and academic team and all know but bear with them at the end of next week when their computers are off for a day and they are being moved across the office. Other than that I did a session for Andy and Sian on the learning, teaching and assessment module and met with two students from the programme. On Friday I had sometime to catch up on the weeks e-mails and then did a sessions on for the LDC research and journal club on ethics and then again a brief session on the dissertation module for Patrick on ethics. I ended the week by peer reviewing a statistics class which was good and I learnt something too.
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