Well after a nice and relaxing Christmas break it is back and full steam ahead with recruitment. I’ve presented at a couple of Newcastle Uni lectures now, and had a great opportunity today to go and talk to dance students at Newcastle College, laden down with a big stack of flyers! This has been an important step as I’m interested in talking to a wide range of both students and local young women from a broad range of backgrounds and who may be working or undertaking academic or vocational courses.

I have another interview lined up and a couple of expressions of interest, which is great, and I’m trying to make real use of social media to help raise the profile of the research – I really think there are good opportunities to be had here as social media has the potential to reach so many people.

I’ve also managed to secure some good opportunities to talk to geography students at Northumbria University, including 1^st, 2^nd and 3^rd years (this is particularly useful as it would be good to be able to interview a broad range of ages and see how age as a factor comes into the analysis).