slippage may occur

Teaching four hours non-stop is quite tiring...

'Psychosocial aspects of stroke' on MSc Health Psychology for two hours then straight to 'motivational interviewing' on MSc Forensic Psychology.  Some slippage between the terms 'patient' and 'offender' may have been evident...

Making preparations

Spent what seemed like an awfully long time this morning making preparations for travel to a conference in May.  Visa waiver application, flights, accommodation,etc. At least it's done now.

Afternoon spent doing some marking, and preparing for tomorrow's classes on two different applied psychology masters programmes: Forensic Psychology and Health Psychology, plus a wee bit of research on an external organisation who've expressed an interest in buying some training from us. 

Really looking forward to Friday when I hope to pick up my OWN work again - if I ever manage to catch up on all the (increasingly terse) emails that are swamping my inbox...

Has it really been so long?

Been busy  - too busy... But back to it:

Supervising a test today for students on the third year option module Applied Health Psychology.  Students took the test online and got their results immediately - nicely meeting the new fast turnaround time for student feedback ;-) - with exception of a few who encountered technical problems and will get their papers manually marked within a day or so.

Some very pleasing results overall.

In the interim, one of my colleagues (Erica Bowen) has been on Radio 4 Women's Hour, discussing her new book on domestic violence. Listen again is highly recommended http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00yj189

Not the best day ever...

The day started badly when I turned up to give a guest lecture and found that the room had changed without my knowing.  A colleague, who left for a new post recently, had neglected to mention that the room for my two guest spots had changed.  Embarrassing exit from the room I had set up my presentation in, several phone calls later and a chance meeting with one of the students in the corridor... eventually turned up to the new room to find that all but one of the students had left - v. frustrating.

Then got some horrible news at lunch time about the health of one of my valued research collaborators - which put things in perspective somewhat.  We are all thinking about her and wishing her the best for the tough few months she's likely to have ahead.