Finally finished all that marking

urgh... Finally managed to finish the dissertation marking today, and sent off my draft modules for the new degree programme:

Level 3: Clinical and Counselling Psychology

The aim of this module is to provide students with a comprehensive understanding of the fields of clinical and counselling psychology, and the settings and client groups with whom clinical and counselling psychologists work. 

Level 2: Professional Skills for Psychology Graduates

The aim of this module is to provide students with opportunities to develop, reflect on and refine the core subject-specific and generic transferable skills they will need to pursue graduate opportunities relevant to psychology. 

Keen colleagues are off to a writing retreat tomorrow but I have to confess that I will be on the allotment ...

The hills are alive...

...with the sound of marking.

OK it's the end of term and it would be tempting to run for the hills (or at the very least the allotment) in search of recreation, but I have just received twelve dissertations to mark, which come to 11.3 MB of text.   No Easter holidays for me just yet...

Drafty today

I've spent much of today reading undergraduate students' draft copies of their individual research dissertations.  This is one of the rare instances where students get to revise their work following tutor feedback, prior to submitting to be assessed.

I deal with these in the order that I received them - those who got the draft to me sooner are the first to get their feedback. I've done these:

People's responses to facial disfigurement 

Locus of control, age, exercise activity and body image perception

and have yet to read these:

The subjective experience of self harm

Using an analysis of the subjective experience of opiate addiction to inform treatment programmes

Birth order effects and empathy

Gang membership