Well I’m not quite sure how it ended up the end of April with May just around the corner! I have been lost in marking recently and attempting to balance that and the personal grief I am still going through.

The NAEEA SIGs are going well and both groups got our papers submitted by the respective deadlines. New projects are budding but I’ll try to write more about those later.

My fraction is going to increase from 0.5 to 0.7 in the middle of the year and I am looking forward to that.

I am also looking forward to some time off at the end of May and the Student Success conference in July. So far I have had a poster and an Emerging Initiaitive accepted. I have two more submissions that I am still waiting to hear about (the due date for feedback hasn’t passed yet). The university is funding the registration and I am feeling quite blessed by that. This year it is in Cairns, so I am going to drive up and I paid for the more expensive but fancy accommodation because I wanted to treat myself.

The book that Trixie James and I have a chapter in has still not come out and Susan Emmett and I are also waiting for Australian Journal of Adult Learning to release it’s next issue. The last couple of years they have had issues in April, July and November so we are expecting it any day now. Same with the book! It has been a very long process for both of those. I am hoping the next couple of publications happen a little faster. That includes the Special Issue from the NAEEA conference and the Student Success one as well (that is assuming the submitted articles are accepted).

I have not done a lot of PhD work lately as I’ve been drowning in both self-pity and marking. However I have done a couple of focus groups and got some great data. I’ve also bolstered up large chunks of the literature review and I’m feeling pretty ok about that for now. I’m going to move on and write the methodology section if I can just get the courage to start that!

Well that pretty much covers a general update for now. Till next time!