…we’ve been rather busy. We’re pleased to welcome James Ricketts to the project team as our student lead. James will introduce himself in due course, but one of his key roles will be engaging the wider student body in the research. Meanwhile we’ve gone through the process of applying for ethical approval for the research and tying down, as a team, what the key priorities are. We identified talking to staff as a good place to start – eager to discover their perceptions of what constitutes feedback and the problems associated with the feeback/assessment loop – both from their perspective and their perspective of what the students think. A focus group was held with staff and we’re following this up with some individual one-to-one discussions. Our work has been interrupted slightly by the long 4-week Easter break but the plan thereafter is to begin discussions with students about their experience of feedback and assessment. We’ll post again when this is underway.