All you can eat

Lunch today to say farewell to my colleague Katherine, who is leaving us for a prestigious research role in another part of the university.

We went to an all you can eat Chinese place in the centre of Coventry and while I didn't think we'd over-indulged have been suffering mild indigestion for the afternoon's marking bits and pieces of resit coursework.

Paid Internship Available

Not really a blog post as such but I'd like to publicise this as widely as possible.  A local charity I do some research with is advertising an internship opportunity.

They are Ryder Cheshire Volunteers, and the advert can be viewed at http://pdp.coventry.ac.uk/viewasset.aspx?oid=990356&type=file

Catching up

Another day of catching up, including:

• Talking to a charity sector partner organisation about recruiting a student intern to work with them in the coming academic year.  
• Making arrangements for students to resit exams deferred from May/June, including special needs such as extra time and particular colour of paper (yellow can help with some disabilities).
• Marking some literature review papers submitted by students on the Health Psychology Masters programme (Reducing weight bias in healthcare professionals, home carers' experience of dementia care, types of chronic fatigue).  
• Giving feedback on the data analysis a PhD student has done.
• Attempting to write references for recent graduates (with some difficulty as the online student records system seems to have temporarily gone phut)

Hoping to get back into my own research tomorrow!

Holidays all gone

Back at work after three weeks annual leave - unable even to recall my password to log on to university IT system this morning. That's what I call a proper holiday.

Usual trawl through emails to attempt a catch-up.

The only interesting things I can think of to post about are probably too controversial for public consumption, so here is a nice picture of some donkeys I took on Ile de Re.