On the way to deliver another Scholarly Activity workshop in Manchester, I've found in today's papers yet another victory for reason and common sense dressed up as some sort of attack on Christianity by sections of our more reactionary press.
Happily for those of us who believe that only evidence based treatments have any credibility, Lesley Pilkington has lost her appeal against getting struck off by the British Association of Counselling and Psychotherapy for professional malpractice, or in other words trying to "cure" homosexuality with a combination of counselling and prayer.
This so-called reparative therapy considers the sin of homosexuality to be an illness which can be put right by supernatural implorations, and even apparently asked a patient if any of his relatives were Freemasons, although how this could be connected wasn't explained in court or in Mrs Pilkington's post hearing interview.
She did however say that "counsellors with traditional views are being closed down": a statement I hope is a refection of our legislators' efforts nationwide . She's entitled to her views, no matter how irrational they are, but they have no place in a professional, scientific arena, and certainly should never be foisted on what might be very vulnerable individuals.
Showing posts with label scholarly activity. Show all posts
Showing posts with label scholarly activity. Show all posts
Monday, 21 May 2012
Thursday, 29 March 2012
A shroud and its sillier aligning
I've just finished another Scholarly Activity workshop (the third in a series of seven) in Manchester and would like to thank Adele Turner for bringing me a copy of Saturday's Telegraph which contains a wonderful example of how not to conduct evidence based research.
In it, a Cambridge-based art historian called Thomas de Wesselow describes his feelings upon finally seeing the Turin Shroud "face to face", and puts forward a "theory" as what it is. His "theory" is that the Shroud is indeed two thousand years old and the image on it is that of Jesus, but not necessarily created in a burst of divine energy during the resurrection. Although De Wesselow's "research" "was largely done at his desk or in libraries, save for one episode ... when the connection between the Shroud and Resurrection came to him in a kind of eureka moment", he's concluded that the first disciples didn't see the Risen Christ; they saw a soiled cloth with a miraculously-produced image on it and knew at that moment Jesus must have risen from the dead.
Neat idea, but unfortunately for his credibility as a historian, there's absolutely no evidence to support it. Nothing. No historical, material, scientific, archaeological or palaeographical evidence, and not even anything in the Bible as far as I can tell; where if memory serves correctly, Thomas is described as putting his hand into Jesus' pierced but resurrected flesh.
So logically, not only did the gospel writers, Paul, the early church fathers and everybody else writing things down during the development of Christianity keep the "facts" of the Easter (up)rising secret; everybody who saw it for the next millennium-and-a-half or so also neglected to mention the existence of the Shroud until it was exhibited in northern France around 1355. It was soon withdrawn from view on the orders of the local Bishop (Henri de Poitiers) who doubted its authenticity at the time "after diligent inquiry and examination, ... the said cloth had been cunningly painted, the truth being attested by the artist who had painted it, to wit, that it was a work of human skill and not miraculously wrought or bestowed."
The real mystery of the Turin Shroud, is unfortunately not just limited to why this undoubted fake continues to exert any fascination over believers, researchers, writers and documentary-makers, but that it also gets used to disparage 1988's carbon dating which gave the Shroud's date of manufacture as sometime in the 13th or 14th century. It would after all, be truly miraculous if the normal rules of carbon 14 decomposition were actually unreliable just this once. So not only is there good 14th century evidence that the Turin Shroud was known (or at least very strongly suspected) at the time to be a forgery, there is excellent scientific evidence to confirm it.
To paraphrase an old saying about ducks: if looks logically a fake, looks historically like a fake, and tests scientifically like a fake, then it's a ....
In it, a Cambridge-based art historian called Thomas de Wesselow describes his feelings upon finally seeing the Turin Shroud "face to face", and puts forward a "theory" as what it is. His "theory" is that the Shroud is indeed two thousand years old and the image on it is that of Jesus, but not necessarily created in a burst of divine energy during the resurrection. Although De Wesselow's "research" "was largely done at his desk or in libraries, save for one episode ... when the connection between the Shroud and Resurrection came to him in a kind of eureka moment", he's concluded that the first disciples didn't see the Risen Christ; they saw a soiled cloth with a miraculously-produced image on it and knew at that moment Jesus must have risen from the dead.
Neat idea, but unfortunately for his credibility as a historian, there's absolutely no evidence to support it. Nothing. No historical, material, scientific, archaeological or palaeographical evidence, and not even anything in the Bible as far as I can tell; where if memory serves correctly, Thomas is described as putting his hand into Jesus' pierced but resurrected flesh.
So logically, not only did the gospel writers, Paul, the early church fathers and everybody else writing things down during the development of Christianity keep the "facts" of the Easter (up)rising secret; everybody who saw it for the next millennium-and-a-half or so also neglected to mention the existence of the Shroud until it was exhibited in northern France around 1355. It was soon withdrawn from view on the orders of the local Bishop (Henri de Poitiers) who doubted its authenticity at the time "after diligent inquiry and examination, ... the said cloth had been cunningly painted, the truth being attested by the artist who had painted it, to wit, that it was a work of human skill and not miraculously wrought or bestowed."
The real mystery of the Turin Shroud, is unfortunately not just limited to why this undoubted fake continues to exert any fascination over believers, researchers, writers and documentary-makers, but that it also gets used to disparage 1988's carbon dating which gave the Shroud's date of manufacture as sometime in the 13th or 14th century. It would after all, be truly miraculous if the normal rules of carbon 14 decomposition were actually unreliable just this once. So not only is there good 14th century evidence that the Turin Shroud was known (or at least very strongly suspected) at the time to be a forgery, there is excellent scientific evidence to confirm it.
To paraphrase an old saying about ducks: if looks logically a fake, looks historically like a fake, and tests scientifically like a fake, then it's a ....
Tuesday, 16 August 2011
Beware: Ninja Tellys!
After a six hour train journey, I'm now sat in a central Oxford hotel watching television before retiring for the night, a pastime that I've always thought relaxing but according to an article in today's Times is actually hazardous to my health ("TV is as harmful as smoking"). Indeed, every hour spent slumped in front of the box is as "serious a public health problem as smoking or obesity" and can reduce the viewer's life expectancy by 22 minutes, or in other words, you'll live 5 years less if you watch TV for 6 hours a day.
So does that magic box in the corner of the room emit some previously secret carcinogenic rays?
Does a seemingly endless stream of reality drivel, soap operas and gameshows have an adverse affect on the will to live?
Nope, "research" published in the British Journal of Sports Medicine has compared the mortality rates of couch potato Australians with those who had "more active lifestyles". Then, after doing a few sums, the University of Queensland "experts" worked out that every hour spent glued to the screen shortened life by 21.8 minutes, and the "top 1 per cent of the population who watch six hours of programmes a day can expect to live 4.8 years less than a person who does not watch TV”.
So that's not a slow-acting electric assassin in the corner of the room after all. Not only will it not kill me, it won't even reduce my life expectancy, because all these "researchers" have actually done is correlate some data which shows that more active people tend to live longer. Wow!
On the other hand, the report also quotes a Lancet article claiming that "as little as 15 minutes of physical activity every day can increase lifespan by three years", which by my calculations means that I only need to do around 3 minutes of exercise for every hour's telly watching and they'll cancel each other out.
Fortunately for the reputation of the academic community as a whole, and as the participants in tomorrow's scholarly activity workshop will be told at 10.00am, getting your work published isn't quite like Homer Simpson once said, "Facts are meaningless. You could use facts to prove anything that's even remotely true....."
So does that magic box in the corner of the room emit some previously secret carcinogenic rays?
Does a seemingly endless stream of reality drivel, soap operas and gameshows have an adverse affect on the will to live?
Nope, "research" published in the British Journal of Sports Medicine has compared the mortality rates of couch potato Australians with those who had "more active lifestyles". Then, after doing a few sums, the University of Queensland "experts" worked out that every hour spent glued to the screen shortened life by 21.8 minutes, and the "top 1 per cent of the population who watch six hours of programmes a day can expect to live 4.8 years less than a person who does not watch TV”.
So that's not a slow-acting electric assassin in the corner of the room after all. Not only will it not kill me, it won't even reduce my life expectancy, because all these "researchers" have actually done is correlate some data which shows that more active people tend to live longer. Wow!
On the other hand, the report also quotes a Lancet article claiming that "as little as 15 minutes of physical activity every day can increase lifespan by three years", which by my calculations means that I only need to do around 3 minutes of exercise for every hour's telly watching and they'll cancel each other out.
Fortunately for the reputation of the academic community as a whole, and as the participants in tomorrow's scholarly activity workshop will be told at 10.00am, getting your work published isn't quite like Homer Simpson once said, "Facts are meaningless. You could use facts to prove anything that's even remotely true....."
Tuesday, 22 March 2011
Cereal Killing
In a little under 2 hours, I'm going to be running a scholarly activity workshop in a rural conference centre which is in the middle of many villages looking just like Causton, the setting for the Midsomer Murders television programme. This fictional location, with a murder rate higher than South Central LA during gangland shooting season, was in the news last week when one of the producers said that to include some black faces would detract from its Englishness, even though nobody could possibly think it truly indicative of country life anyway.
If Midsomer was to be representative of the daily lives of the people I passed on the twenty minute journey from Oxford station, then its characters wouldn't be committing ever-more inventive murders, they'd be getting embroiled in bitter planning disputes with farmers wanting to convert maize fields into industrial estates or trying to evict traveller families laying tarmac parking areas where the corn used to grow...
If Midsomer was to be representative of the daily lives of the people I passed on the twenty minute journey from Oxford station, then its characters wouldn't be committing ever-more inventive murders, they'd be getting embroiled in bitter planning disputes with farmers wanting to convert maize fields into industrial estates or trying to evict traveller families laying tarmac parking areas where the corn used to grow...
Thursday, 17 December 2009
Steeling myself against the weather....
Contextualising workshops to suit the subject area of the participants isn't easy, but fortunately one of today's Research and Scholarly Activity workshops was with engineers, and the other was in an area I've worked very closely with in the past: Art/Design/Media.
This in some ways made up for today's sessions clashing with my friends and ex-colleagues' christmas dinner in Loughborough, but has now been more offset by only having to drive home from Sheffield in a very surprising amount of snow.
Can't remember the last time so much fell in such a short space of time, or when it fell this side of the New Year, but at least that's my travelling done for three weeks so it'll be "working from home" and golf until early January.
This in some ways made up for today's sessions clashing with my friends and ex-colleagues' christmas dinner in Loughborough, but has now been more offset by only having to drive home from Sheffield in a very surprising amount of snow.
Can't remember the last time so much fell in such a short space of time, or when it fell this side of the New Year, but at least that's my travelling done for three weeks so it'll be "working from home" and golf until early January.
Thursday, 10 December 2009
Strategic Priorities and Managing Risk Conference
The big day!
After 3 months of planning and publicising, 85 (who according to their feedback sheets were very happy) delegates attended what will now be an annual HE/FE conference organised in association with EIAT Consultancy.
Keynotes were delivered by John Widdowson: Principal and Chief Executive, New Durham College & Chair of the MEG Group, David Jenkins: Director of Educational Partnerships, Staffordshire University, Executive for Associate for Collaborative Provision, and Charlie Woodcock: Executive Director Business & Community Development, Chester University, and I ran two workshops on "Scholarly Activity and Applying for Third-Party Funding to Support it" with Madeleine King.
Not only will the conference pay for two weeks somewhere equatorial in the new year, but 4 colleges offered me staff development work in February/March and one of the delegates asked if I could help her put together a Scholarly Activity conference next Summer.
Full programme details can be found at http://www.eiat.org/hefeconference.php
After 3 months of planning and publicising, 85 (who according to their feedback sheets were very happy) delegates attended what will now be an annual HE/FE conference organised in association with EIAT Consultancy.
Keynotes were delivered by John Widdowson: Principal and Chief Executive, New Durham College & Chair of the MEG Group, David Jenkins: Director of Educational Partnerships, Staffordshire University, Executive for Associate for Collaborative Provision, and Charlie Woodcock: Executive Director Business & Community Development, Chester University, and I ran two workshops on "Scholarly Activity and Applying for Third-Party Funding to Support it" with Madeleine King.
Not only will the conference pay for two weeks somewhere equatorial in the new year, but 4 colleges offered me staff development work in February/March and one of the delegates asked if I could help her put together a Scholarly Activity conference next Summer.
Full programme details can be found at http://www.eiat.org/hefeconference.php
Monday, 6 July 2009
Seren atynfa daledig i mewn gwin!
After spending most of Sunday on trains (6 of them: 5 connections) travelling to North Wales I had the honour of being keynote speaker (or as the facillitator described me, the "star attraction") at today's "Best Practice in Higher Education" conference.
A memorable two days out, not least because following my 30 minute presentation, I'm now better off by a crate of wine. Yep. 12 bottles. Not exactly easy to carry across country, but they had assumed I'd go by car & I didn't want to offend them by refusing: after all it is another country & I am unfamiliar with local customs....
Free bottle to the first person to guess what the heading says (there are clues in the text) and convince me you've worked it out & not simply copied it into a translation site (which is what I did in case you're wondering).
A memorable two days out, not least because following my 30 minute presentation, I'm now better off by a crate of wine. Yep. 12 bottles. Not exactly easy to carry across country, but they had assumed I'd go by car & I didn't want to offend them by refusing: after all it is another country & I am unfamiliar with local customs....
Free bottle to the first person to guess what the heading says (there are clues in the text) and convince me you've worked it out & not simply copied it into a translation site (which is what I did in case you're wondering).
Tuesday, 16 June 2009
KC in the Sunshine: new brand
Just spent a very sunny (30 degrees+) afternoon at what is now Kirklees College, an institution formed from the merger of Huddersfield and Dewsbury & Batley colleges.
This was their inaugrual HE staff development day, and I was asked to deliver a workshop on how/what/why scholarly activity (HE in FE's big topic at the moment if you hadn't gathered from past posts...), but have only blogged it so I could use the title pun....
Sorry.
This was their inaugrual HE staff development day, and I was asked to deliver a workshop on how/what/why scholarly activity (HE in FE's big topic at the moment if you hadn't gathered from past posts...), but have only blogged it so I could use the title pun....
Sorry.
Friday, 12 June 2009
Expectations, Experiences and Encounters in HE and HE in FE – The 3Es
The theme of this one-day conference, hosted by the University of Bolton on behalf of the NW Network Group (the universities of Bolton, Central Lancashire, Chester, Manchester & Cumbria, and the colleges of Bradford, Burnley, Stockport, West Cheshire and Blackpool & the Flyde) was student expectations, experiences and encounters, and exploring staff perceptions through innovative research partnerships between staff teaching higher education in universities and further education colleges.
I was originally asked (back in December) to be the keynote speaker, but was relegated to first-up after lunch to accomodate a presentation on the issues that have arisen from research undertaken on the student experience. After listening to 30 minutes of figures and looking at graphs which couldn't be read from 10 metres away - and I was at the front of the 60+ audience! - I fully understood why the organisers had decided to start the second half with someone (i.e. me!) less likely to induce a post-pastry snooze-a-thon. Not an easy thing to do if your talk is on "why and how HE in FE staff can get involved in scholarly activity, the value that both sides attach to, and can get from, working in partnerships"...
Feedback forms are getting sent out to the delegates along with the day's presentations, so it'll be a couple of weeks before we find out whether visiting the Final Year Students' exhibition on the ground floor would've been a better way to while away an hour or two.
I was originally asked (back in December) to be the keynote speaker, but was relegated to first-up after lunch to accomodate a presentation on the issues that have arisen from research undertaken on the student experience. After listening to 30 minutes of figures and looking at graphs which couldn't be read from 10 metres away - and I was at the front of the 60+ audience! - I fully understood why the organisers had decided to start the second half with someone (i.e. me!) less likely to induce a post-pastry snooze-a-thon. Not an easy thing to do if your talk is on "why and how HE in FE staff can get involved in scholarly activity, the value that both sides attach to, and can get from, working in partnerships"...
Feedback forms are getting sent out to the delegates along with the day's presentations, so it'll be a couple of weeks before we find out whether visiting the Final Year Students' exhibition on the ground floor would've been a better way to while away an hour or two.
Friday, 5 June 2009
No Stone (Henge) Left Unturned...
Having spent a less than exciting evening in Chippenham (where an "About the Area" guide lists one of Swindon's roundabouts as a "place of interest"!), an early morning train ride took me to Corsham for a HE/Partner Staff Development day. Appoximately 50 college lecturers gathered to hear a welcome, a short talk by a HE Manager, then yours truly on why college lecturers should get involved with scholarly activity and how they can be supported before dispersing to attend sessions entitled “How does a FE lecturer become a HE lecturer?”, “Improving recruitment, retention and achievement ”, "Assessing group work with work based learners"and “Building confidence: the transition into HE”.
Although by the time these had started I was already making the 5 hour journey back wondering whether the locals thought the stone circle down the road was some precursor to modern roundabouts.....
Although by the time these had started I was already making the 5 hour journey back wondering whether the locals thought the stone circle down the road was some precursor to modern roundabouts.....
Tuesday, 19 May 2009
Scholarly Activity Workshop
Spent today at Solihull College's Woodlands Campus running a workshop for FE lecturers who work at HE level and want to increase their engagement with research and scholarly activity.
In addition to my input, delegates benefitted from the expertise of:
In addition to my input, delegates benefitted from the expertise of:
- Liz Willis from the HEA Engineering Subject Centre
- Sue Moron-Garcia from Coventry University's Centre for the Study of Higher Education offering an introduction to what is meant by scholarly activity, guidance in getting started with carrying out research, gathering evidence on learning and teaching, and writing papers for academic journals.
- Becky Turner from the HELP CETL showcasing some examples of successful practices from colleges in the SW to give an idea of the kind of things college lecturers could realistically achieve with their limited resources (of time and money).
Without a doubt, one of the best scholarly activity workshops I've been involved in, and thanks very much to Liz, Sue & Becky for making it possible.
Thursday, 2 April 2009
Scholarly Activity Forum
High Melton, Doncaster
April 2nd 2009
This evening's (yep evening: 7 'til 9) staff development session for Doncaster's University centre (part of the local college), was on why staff should conduct scholarly activities and what it means.
The latest session I've ever delivered went well and included wine (I was driving so don't know if it was any good or not), although as the college is attempting to engender a research culture while expecting staff to deliver 850 hours plus of HE per year, most of the questions were perhaps understandably about how other colleges manage to do it, and not about how to go about it.
As a result, there'll be a collection of best practice examples available through the main PlayingwithLearning website as soon as I've decided on the format.
April 2nd 2009
This evening's (yep evening: 7 'til 9) staff development session for Doncaster's University centre (part of the local college), was on why staff should conduct scholarly activities and what it means.
The latest session I've ever delivered went well and included wine (I was driving so don't know if it was any good or not), although as the college is attempting to engender a research culture while expecting staff to deliver 850 hours plus of HE per year, most of the questions were perhaps understandably about how other colleges manage to do it, and not about how to go about it.
As a result, there'll be a collection of best practice examples available through the main PlayingwithLearning website as soon as I've decided on the format.
Wednesday, 11 March 2009
Yorkshire HE Symposium, Doncaster
Having presented down the bill at last year's event in Sheffield, I was this time promoted to keynote and asked by the organisers to speak about scholarly activity and its impact on the learner's experience. Although I originally agreed to talk for 20 minutes, most of the previous evening had been spent re-writing the speech to last for 40 minutes due to a late programme change and the organisers "didn't think I'd mind"!
As it happened, the day's introductory presentation overran, there was an unscheduled (false) fire alarm, lunch turned up late, and yes, you've already guessed: I was asked if I could possibly shorten my bit so that the conference could finish approximately on time (the grovelling about "trains to catch", "car parking about to expire" etc was accompanied by a nice bottle of Shiraz, so of course I acquiesced). Fortunately, as the original speech I wrote last Friday was still on my pen drive (& in my head), I could deliver a coherent 20 minute slot without having to rush and now have a spare (admittedly padded), unused speech for sale if anybody's interested......
As it happened, the day's introductory presentation overran, there was an unscheduled (false) fire alarm, lunch turned up late, and yes, you've already guessed: I was asked if I could possibly shorten my bit so that the conference could finish approximately on time (the grovelling about "trains to catch", "car parking about to expire" etc was accompanied by a nice bottle of Shiraz, so of course I acquiesced). Fortunately, as the original speech I wrote last Friday was still on my pen drive (& in my head), I could deliver a coherent 20 minute slot without having to rush and now have a spare (admittedly padded), unused speech for sale if anybody's interested......
Saturday, 31 January 2009
Furthering Higher Education 2009
30th January, Aston Business School
Working with Blackpool & the Fylde college, I yesterday ran two sessions (both on "Support for Scholarly Activity and it's Impact on the Learner Experience") at this year's QAA/HEA joint conference exploring perceptions of scholarly activity in the FE sector, how Blackpool & the Fylde have supported and developed scholarship through the Teaching Quality and Enhancement Framework project implementation, and the ground-breaking FE Alliance and the Journal of Further Education Alliance which celebrates a number of papers relating to HE in FE.
Each of the two fully-booked workshops (30+ attendees both times, standing room only!) introduced the profiling tool used by the college to indentify and quantify scholarship on an individual and institutional level, and decribed how these activities have enhanced the experience of their students. B&F received a number of requests to demonstrate their tool at institutions & I've been invited to 6 colleges to run an extended version of today's session(s).
Think I'll write a paper on why (after again spending 2 hours stood up all the way back from Birmingham) more carriages/trains surely can't be that hard to organise and submit it to the journal of travel planning...
Working with Blackpool & the Fylde college, I yesterday ran two sessions (both on "Support for Scholarly Activity and it's Impact on the Learner Experience") at this year's QAA/HEA joint conference exploring perceptions of scholarly activity in the FE sector, how Blackpool & the Fylde have supported and developed scholarship through the Teaching Quality and Enhancement Framework project implementation, and the ground-breaking FE Alliance and the Journal of Further Education Alliance which celebrates a number of papers relating to HE in FE.
Each of the two fully-booked workshops (30+ attendees both times, standing room only!) introduced the profiling tool used by the college to indentify and quantify scholarship on an individual and institutional level, and decribed how these activities have enhanced the experience of their students. B&F received a number of requests to demonstrate their tool at institutions & I've been invited to 6 colleges to run an extended version of today's session(s).
Think I'll write a paper on why (after again spending 2 hours stood up all the way back from Birmingham) more carriages/trains surely can't be that hard to organise and submit it to the journal of travel planning...
Tuesday, 13 January 2009
Blackpool Illuminations
Spent today at Blackpool and the Fylde College discussing their wonderful scholarly activity programme, Teaching Quality Enhancement Funding and the FEAlliance which exists to bring together Further Education colleagues by providing networking opportunities that will inform the FE Sector about the communities collective views.
As a result of some workshops our centre ran about a year ago Imperial House Publishing has been commissioned by the FEAlliance to publish a journal which is intended to assist FECs and their partners to share good practice, develop their research capabilities and provide an exciting and valued body of knowledge for further reflection and debate.
The FEAlliance recognises that most FE staff including Academic, Administrative and Corporate, undertake day-to-day work or study for qualifications that yield knowledge, research, assignments, studies and reports that would not only benefit their own department but also staff in other colleges. The journal has been conceived in order to provide a platform for these staff to publish their work and raise their professional standing by sharing good practice and knowledge across educational institutions.
As a result of this meeting, I've agreed to run a joint workshop at the HEA/QAA collaborative conference towards the end of this month which will explore perceptions of scholarly activity in the FE sector, and how Blackpool & the Fylde have supported and developed scholarship through their innovative TQEF project and the FE Alliance Journal, Issue 3 of which celebrates a number of papers relating to HE in FE and should be available for distribution any day now.
As a result of some workshops our centre ran about a year ago Imperial House Publishing has been commissioned by the FEAlliance to publish a journal which is intended to assist FECs and their partners to share good practice, develop their research capabilities and provide an exciting and valued body of knowledge for further reflection and debate.
The FEAlliance recognises that most FE staff including Academic, Administrative and Corporate, undertake day-to-day work or study for qualifications that yield knowledge, research, assignments, studies and reports that would not only benefit their own department but also staff in other colleges. The journal has been conceived in order to provide a platform for these staff to publish their work and raise their professional standing by sharing good practice and knowledge across educational institutions.
As a result of this meeting, I've agreed to run a joint workshop at the HEA/QAA collaborative conference towards the end of this month which will explore perceptions of scholarly activity in the FE sector, and how Blackpool & the Fylde have supported and developed scholarship through their innovative TQEF project and the FE Alliance Journal, Issue 3 of which celebrates a number of papers relating to HE in FE and should be available for distribution any day now.
Wednesday, 17 December 2008
So far south, it's almost in France...
On what is now my last day before flying to Portugal for some winter sun, I'm now on the way home from two days working on a much-warmer-than-Yorkshire South Coast where I've been presenting to 30+ FEC engineers at an airport in the Sussex Downs, and around 40 performing arts lecturers in Worthing (both part of Northbrook College) on why bother doing, and how to go about, scholarly activity and writing for publication.
So warm, that it's got me wondering whether the four hour journey home & getting up at 5am for a 4 hour flight is worth it, & maybe I ought to just stay in Brighton for two weeks...
So warm, that it's got me wondering whether the four hour journey home & getting up at 5am for a 4 hour flight is worth it, & maybe I ought to just stay in Brighton for two weeks...
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