Category: Teaching and marking
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The marking void!
When I was a sessional I used to joke with my supervisor that I would do all of the teaching for free if I could just get $400 an hour for marking. That is what my job feels like! The teaching and the research is fun. I love it. I really would do it for…
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Phoning students – Is it worth it?
I work in the STEPS program and we absolutley pride ourselves on the student experience. Most of our students are regional, remote, low socio-economic status or both. We also have higher-than-average numbers of Indigenous students and those with a disability. Part of my job is assessing their levels of engagement early in each term. I…
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May? My goodness!
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…
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NAEEA 2024 Conference – Darwin +
Sad news first of all. My principle supervisor Anna Fletcher has had to pull out due to some very serious health issues. It does not look good at all and I think Stuart, my remaining supervisor and I are both in a bit of shock. It has all happened quite quickly so no doubt Anna…
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Got my cake and I’m eating it too!
Last year I wont the RTP scholarship but after all the crazy stuff going on in my personal life I took 6 months leave from my PhD. When I got the scholarship I had to be doing my PhD full time to receive the payment (which significantly reduced my financial stress). But when my 6…
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It hit the fan!
I consider myself a professional. Today I really didn’t feel like being around people at all but I delivered a class that I think was exceptionally good. It was on paraphrasing and I started with a brief summary of the paraphrasing techniques that were discussed in the lecture. Then I asked students to paraphrase 2…
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Term 1 Orientation
Today is the main day for STEPS students Orientation for Term 1 here at CQUniversity. Orientation always makes me reflect on my own journey and it’s good because I have come a long way from when I first stepped foot on the Gippsland Campus of Monash University. Long way! But the journey has been hard…
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Ethics ahoy!
Life outside of work and study has been hectic and, well let’s just say “bumpy” but work has been going exceptionally well. I was offered 10 additional hours per week for 6 weeks. This is going to help my bank balance so of course I said yes. The down side is that the 10 hours…
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Take That!
I had an extreme case of satisfaction in my PhD meeting today. Despite their concerns about me juggling too many projects I was able to send them a full draft of the first publication for my PhD. For anyone that has forgotten that is a scoping literature review where I personally applied inclusion/exclustion criteria to…
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Darn emotions!
Well I have been struggling lately with emotions and work/study! Just very mixed feelings on a lot of things I think. We had orientation today which is always fun! As usual, we had a student panel of past students and not one, but two out of three cried! One had lost a family member right…
Equity in higher education - An Australian researcher 