Well a very Happy New Year to everyone!

It was a happy new year to me because the book chapter that Trixie and I wrote back in 2021 is soon to be published – FINALLY! I did the very very final proofreading and signing off yesterday.

I have also finished a draft of the book chapter that NAEEA asked me to write for their edited collection about the current state of the Enabling Education sector. It came together pretty quickly and easily actually because I already had the scoping literature review done – I just had to write it up. I am under the word limit and everything!

The next project that will require my attention is the Wellbeing SIG chapter with Amy and of course the grant project. I will be on leave next week with a friend coming to stay with me but after that it’s go time! That goes for me PhD as well. I have not finished the data collection yet but I will get stuck into that. I hope that I can get the email interviews finished before term 1 starts, for my sake but the students’ too.

So it’s appropriate to set goals for the year – let’s do that!

1. Finish the dam data collection on my PhD and jump into data analysis.
2. Re-submit the scoping literature review from my PhD
3. Finish the solo grant article and submit it
4. Sumbit at least one other article – DEMTEL, FedUni grant team, VET project, Meme project, second one on student support or something else!
5. Finish both NAEEA book chapters and associated editing work
6. Keep up with teaching and ALC duties while all that is going on!

I am confident in completing numbers 4, 5 and 6! Ha ha ha!