I have been pretty busy since September. My first job was to get the Psychology alumni blog up and running, working with Leslie Allinson. That was the easy bit; now there’s the slog of finding more graduates and engaging them as active blog contributors.

Social Sciences have experienced problems finding graduates, so recently I had a very useful meeting with Jacqui Briggs, the new Head of School, who is determined to breathe new life into their alumni blog. One immediate outcome is that Dr. Andrew Wallace has agreed to take on the task of finding alumni stories to publish. We have had a couple of meetings and he has wisely decided to concentrate on story leads provided by colleagues.

I have also started working with Michael Blackburn, who is a WordPress blogger himself and teaches on the M.A Creative Writing course. We hope to create a dedicated course blog which will combine several functions, such as course management, alumni / student networking and publication of original work. It’s at the ideas / planning stage just now, but we aim for an early 2013 launch. Continue reading →