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

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

Feedback on student presentations

Pleasant session today with third year students on the Health & Lifestyle Management degree - giving feedback on a practice presentation.

We ask our students to prepare a presentation as if for a job interview. Today's was for a post working as a healthy lifestyle support worker in a forensic mental health unit. A particular focus was on the ethical dilemmas that one might face in working in this setting.

We give students video recordings of their presentations so they can view and critique their own performance.

Also advertised another voluntary research internship: focusing on assistance dogs placed with families where a child has a developmental disability.