Annual review

Well, had my annual review yesterday and it was okay. Rather like having a review with a line manager, which I have endured many times. It was with Tim Bale and Alan Mayhew, and I learned that Alan is one of the independent reviewers of my research outline and he has now read it. So comments should be ready soon to review. And Alan offered to help with contacts in Croatia and Ukraine, as I hoped, so that is really useful.

Teaching

Have decided not to do any teaching in the next academic year and to focus exclusively on my research. I enjoyed teaching the British Political History course last Autumn, but it just took so much mental energy and time. There will be plenty of teaching in future, I hope. I think the rest of this year will be about planning fieldwork for 2011.