I'm not savouring (the academic) life

Of course if I was working to maximum efficiency I would be doing something other than looking at this on a Friday at ten to six...

http://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?doid=1180875.1180941

http://www.interruptions.net/literature/Hair-CHB06.pdf

http://www.timeshighereducation.co.uk/story.asp?storycode=415814

http://www.azlyrics.com/lyrics/biffyclyro/machines.html

Location:Still in cov - time to go home perhaps

"Awfey busy"

Been bogged down in work for the past several weeks but thought I'd revive my blog as an opportunity to showcase the research seminars we're having in Psychology & Behavioural Sciences in the next few months.

Have placed posts about this on our departmental Facebook page, but bears repeating here as well:

Date	Speaker	Affiliation	Title
7th December	Dr Lorenzo Stafford	University of Portsmouth	Olfaction And Emotion: What More Is There To Know?
14th December	Prof. Peter Spurgeon	University of Warwick	Management and Leadership Competence: No Longer An Optional Extra for Clinical Staff.
25th January	Dr Caoilte O´Ciardha	University of Kent	The treatment needs of adult firesetters.
1st February	Dr Douglas Howat	Psychology and Behavioural Sciences, Coventry University	Effective team-talks in sport: an identity leadership perspective.
8th February	Prof. Neil Coulson	University of Nottingham	Online support communities: Who, what and why?
15th February	Dr Rebecca Jenks	Psychology and Behavioural Sciences, Coventry University	The effects of Salvia Lavandulaefolia on behavioural and self rated measures of attention.
22nd February	Luisa Tarczynski-Bowles	Psychology and Behavioural Sciences, Coventry University	Stress sensitivity and reading ability in primary school children.
29th February	Sarah Critten	Psychology and Behavioural Sciences, Coventry University	The role of spelling in the relationship between oral and written language in children with specific language impairment.
7th March	Lisa Hopkins	Psychology and Behavioural Sciences, Coventry University	Bullying and cyber-bullying.
14th March	Dr Jackie Abell	Lancaster University	Discourse and Identity.
21st March	Kate Walker	Psychology and Behavioural Sciences, Coventry University	Comparison of the psychological characteristic of desisters and persisters of intimate partner violence.
28th March	Prof. Lucy Yardley	University of Southampton	Learning from LifeGuide: Developing web-based health interventions.
4th April	Amy Grubb	Psychology and Behavioural Sciences, Coventry University	An exploratory study of police hostage (crisis) negotiation within the UK.

Hitting the Hub

Met up with co-author colleagues David Giles and Clare Wood to do some forced labour on a joint project.

We met up and spent the entire day in a work pod at the Hub.

Location:Hitting the hub

Last minute preps for welcoming new students

Freshers week is upon us again, so I've been making (what I hope are) the final adjustments to tomorrow's plans for welcoming incoming students on the MSc Health Psychology.





Time to stop though as experiencing brain fade.

Postgraduate open day

Back home after an interesting stint dealing with enquiries at the postgraduate open day on our Coventry campus.

We had a very busy time on the Psychology desk with a queue forming rapidly.

I talked to people interested in several different courses, including the MSc Health Psychology (for which I'm now course director), MSc Forensic Psychology ( on campus course accredited by BPS), MSc Forensic Psychology and Crime (blended learning course), and the MSc Occupational Psychology.

I even spoke to someone who has already been accepted onto a course and wanted to know how she could make a head start on her background reading. Always nice to meet someone who's keen.




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Why we find it hard to throw stuff out

Interesting feature in BBC news Magazine today, on the growth in self storage business, and the factors fuelling it.

Reminded me of a research study we discuss in one of the final year seminars in Advanced Social Psychology:

Ahuvia (2005) Beyond the Extended Self: Loved Objects and Consumers' Identity Narratives.

Details

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.