Had my first meeting today with Prof Pauline Kneale. She made some really useful points.
She advised us to try and write in the ethics application that this is potentially a long term project and could we get ethics permission to interview students – for the long term. We will be making improvements to the project over a few years if there is an uptake. She said it was fine to have a smaller focus group but with more in depth information.
I mentioned that I had received an email from York and Bournemouth who appeared to be undertaking a similar project. She suggested there may be possibilities for collaboration – at least in terms of perhaps the types of questions they would be asking their students. We could discuss what worked or didn’t work in parallel. This may give a paper more impact.
As a way of persuading people to adopt the workbook usage it would be good to produce a short video with students saying how they use the book and how it’s useful for them. This could be done after Easter.
Just a reminder to get an abstract in to the ALDinHE conference for 2021 to disseminate findings. Also look at potential International conferences.
She concluded by saying that she is free for us to contact in Jan and Feb.