{"id":78,"date":"2016-12-11T17:33:46","date_gmt":"2016-12-11T17:33:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.tees.ac.uk\/tjuthompson\/?p=78"},"modified":"2017-07-02T15:09:50","modified_gmt":"2017-07-02T15:09:50","slug":"associate-dean","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.tees.ac.uk\/tjuthompson\/2016\/12\/11\/associate-dean\/","title":{"rendered":"Associate Dean"},"content":{"rendered":"

Well, it\u2019s been four months since I made the move to, what I\u2019ve since been told, is the dark side<\/em>… I call it senior management, but apparently this is the same thing. Mind you, if it means I get access to a giant space-based laser weapon of unimaginable power, then I\u2019m all for it…<\/p>\n

If you hadn\u2019t heard, I applied for and was offered the post of Associated Dean (Learning & Teaching) in the School – and it\u2019s something that I\u2019m very excited about. I had a colleague tell me the other day that he wanted to wish me congratulations for the new post, but didn\u2019t feel it was a good thing! It\u2019s a common feeling in academia, where the interest most people have is in their chosen area of research – and management is something that . And that\u2019s true for me too. But I\u2019m also interested in working towards creating a space for my colleagues and our students to be as successful as I have. Publications and research and innovative teaching methods don\u2019t just happen, they have to be identified, encouraged and nurtured – and that\u2019s what I want to do now.<\/p>\n

And as I\u2019ve said before, I\u2019m a huge advocate for higher education – and again, it\u2019s important to me to be able to help as many people get to university and to raise their aspirations. As a first generation university go-er myself, I know first hand the opportunities it can provide, and I want to be able to provide this for others too.<\/p>\n

Thankfully, the new role still lets me work with my wonderful PhD-ers. And we have a number of exciting research projects coming out soon, which I\u2019m excited about.<\/p>\n

So anyway – so far, so good. Although, I do find myself increasingly practicing my Force Choke move…<\/p>\n

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Well, it\u2019s been four months since I made the move to, what I\u2019ve since been told, is the dark side… I call it senior management, but apparently this is the same thing. Mind you, if it means I get access to a giant space-based laser weapon of unimaginable power, then I\u2019m all for it… If you hadn\u2019t heard, I applied for and was offered the post of Associated Dean (Learning & Teaching) in the School – and it\u2019s something that I\u2019m very excited about. I…<\/span>Continue Reading “Associate Dean”<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":144,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"footnotes":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[3],"tags":[13,14,12],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5ogem-1g","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.tees.ac.uk\/tjuthompson\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.tees.ac.uk\/tjuthompson\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.tees.ac.uk\/tjuthompson\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.tees.ac.uk\/tjuthompson\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/144"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.tees.ac.uk\/tjuthompson\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=78"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.tees.ac.uk\/tjuthompson\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.tees.ac.uk\/tjuthompson\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=78"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.tees.ac.uk\/tjuthompson\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=78"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.tees.ac.uk\/tjuthompson\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=78"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}