I can't believe it's been so long since my last entry in this blog. In the interim I've been extremely busy. I've done lots more reading, and I designed an online survey for students using Survey Monkey.
My pilot survey had 58 responses, and that led me to a bit of tweaking of the survey design. It's now been rolled out ot the entire student population of 12,000+ students. After the first day I have 474 responses. It's quite exciting and I'm a bit nervous about the whole thing. I had to get approval from the University ethics committee and the Student Experience Group. If I screw this up I can't just do it all over again.
I've been turning my attention to getting results out of Survey Monkey and into SPSS. Not easy by any means! There is no native export, so I'll have to import the data into Excel to clean and code it before it can be opened by SPSS. Lots of work and little time!
The other things are that I've had a research grant approved. OK it's only for £300 towards conference expenses, but it's my first. I'm intending to present a paper at ECGBL Athens next October. There only remains the small problem of writing the paper first!
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