I’ve just found out what I’m teaching next year, and it’s quite a change from previous years. Of course, I’m going to be teaching my new Crisis and Continuity Course at Part II (second and third year), and I’m still teaching Hist401, the MA Core Course, to the students on campus. This means that my timetable up to Christmas is incredibly heavy – Crisis and Continuity is apparently the highest recruiting Part II module and I’m going to be teaching four 2 hour workshops each week in Michaelmas for that alone. Hist401 is also taught in 2 hour workshops but they are alternate weeks, so one week will have two of them, and the other will have one. It should ease up after Christmas, as Crisis and Continuity is only taught in Michaelmas Term.

I’m also down to convene Hist491 and Hist495, the two MA placement modules. One is for the school placements and the other for the heritage and public history placements. This is a new one on me, and at the moment I have no idea how it works, but I’m sure it will be straightforward enough and there’ll be some handover with whoever has been convening them this year.

I’ve also been appointed Exams and Assessment Officer. In some ways I’m quite looking forward to this, as it will be interesting to find out more about the implications of AI for university teaching and learning.