My computer took a break, and now so am I

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Podcast transcript

 

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Hello and welcome to R, D and the in betweens.

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I'm your host, Kelly Preece, and every fortnight I talk to a different guest about researches, development and everything in between.

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Hi, everyone. I come to you this episode with an apology. Unfortunately, there's no new episode of R, D and the in betweens this week.

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If you follow me on Twitter, you'll know that about a week ago, my computer got the blue screen of death.

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And unfortunately, I lost my latest recording for the podcast.

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I'm also about to take a couple of weeks hiatus, so I'm going on annual leave for the next two weeks.

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And after some careful thought, I decided that I would take a break from the podcast as well.

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Given how stressful and manic the past few months have been, I could really do with some time to drstress and decompress.

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But I wanted to take this opportunity to give you a little a little teaser of what's coming up on R, D and in the In Betweens.

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I've already recorded an episode of the podcast this week about online training,

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and development talking to a group of our PGRs about their experience as students of online training and development.

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There's been so much focus recently on how difficult it's been for staff to get things online during COVID

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I want to take a step back and actually think about.

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What that's been like for the students and some of the benefits and the flexibility of developing delivering this kind of content online.

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I've also planning to talk to the leaders of our BME network at the University of Exeter

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about the advocacy and the work that they've been doing over the past few years to

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really take us to becoming an anti-racist university and the way in which the university

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has really got on board and started to make tangible changes in the past few months.

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I'm also planning some special episodes for the start of term.

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I've got a compilation episode of advice from our researchers and staff about starting a research degree.

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And I'm also gonna talk to our student union or at Exeter to the Students Guild and V.P. for Postgraduates and president,

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both of whom are postgraduate researchers and have been really active in the postgraduate research community and advocacy for our PGR students.

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So we got some great stuff coming up, and I hope you'll bear with me whilst I take my little holiday.

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But we'll be back on the twenty sixth of August, and that's it for this episode.

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Don't forget to like, rare and subscribe and join me.

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Next time we'll be talking to somebody else about researchers development and everything in between.