| When |
What |
outcome and notes |
| December to early January |
marking Work-based learning mid-year reports |
Success: Marking was done, including handling students’ queries, and writing and delivering a presentation on how I will mark final reports. |
| January |
PB in Brazil: whether and how PB benefits the very poor in Sao Paulo |
work on a paper was stalled for ages. It took until late June to get a focus-group transcribed. Translation is to follow… |
| February to May |
running WriteNow! sessions on Wednesday afternoons |
- success! 95% of writing goals met; 23,720 words written (579 per session per attendee)
- failure: I wasn’t paid for this. Even though the initiative was strongly appreciated by participants from other schools, the feedback on the funding bid was ‘schools should do this themselves.’
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| February onwards |
RIVAL: 4 networking events in 2019-2020 for Library and Information Scientists and practitioners |
See project website for details. |
| March onwards |
GCRF map/database The Scottish Funding Council wants a map of all of the GCRF projects it funds. Image of possible look-and-feel is here |
awaiting contract-signature |
| February, May |
Internal examiner for 3 BIT MSc students |
All three passed. (Credit belongs to the students and their supervisors!) |
| April-May |
Writing RFC funding applications |
- Information avoidance in diabetes (PI: Gemma)
- LitRev paper with Leandro (PI: Colin)
- examination of Todd’s data (PI: Laura – she wrote this bid)
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| May |
Marking Computing in Contemporary Society courseworks |
Work was done. |
| June |
Marking Work-based learning final reports |
work in progress |
Bruce's IT-ish world 