What will happen to the redundant staff? Many will leave the productive work force. Maybe some might become MPs??

Peter Swallow (Lab) asks about protecting smaller subjects. JS: universities should be thinking first about how to protect student choice. Mentions extra payment for costly subjects. [No joy for modern languages here alas]. Refrain is that HEIs pride themselves on autonomy so are responsible. 10/n

They look a tad chilly. I want to give them blankets.

I have an ideas file and also splurge them into notebooks. Timewise I do ‘taking stock’ on Thursday evenings on the train, and indexing my notebooks when I get round to it is a good way of keeping track of the ideas. I probably won’t pursue them unless they keep biting me.

My husband dreams about having breakfast.

This is also true in academic writing. I think by writing, and the more I write the more ideas I have. The problem is working out which ones are worth developing and then actually developing them. I also think neurotype may be relevant. Every time I go to sleep my brain throws a million things at me

I’m not a big fan of archetypes but interesting that you find it frees people up.

Burn out and a spiralling disability bill. Future Nottingham was supposed to be about acknowledging the complex nature of modern academia. It morphed into a slash and burn exercise. I am so angry.

Much sympathy. Last night my brain was raging about all the ways our current restructuring is designed to manipulate workload models to take necessary work off the books and hide it behind citizenship and volunteering. Cameron’s Big Society lives on. Austerity in the name of efficiency, leading to

My cat last weekend

Some useful discussion with them which I need to remember when I next rewrite the module catalogue entry.

True, good point. I ought to be used to it, tbh.

I will also add a deep dive through the criteria to lecture 1 to make it more obvious (it was in workshop 2, plus four different locations on Moodle).

But experience also shows that they genuinely learn a lot from doing it, use it in their job applications later and are super proud of what they produce. I just need to take the flak on their behalf and remember that real learning pushes students slightly out of their comfort zone.