My Return To Blogging

It has been a long time since I wrote a post on this blog. 2013 has been an extremely busy year for me, mainly due to the fact that it was my final year of university. I am ecstatic to report that I have graduated with a 2.1 BSc in Forensic Psychology (from the University of Leeds) and am about to begin the next chapter of my life.

Now that I am no longer a full-time student I am realizing how difficult it can be to keep up to date with learning new things. As a result, I am now going to use this blog to post about things I am learning both for academic reasons and out of general interest.

My first course of action was to sign up for several FutureLearn courses. FutureLearn.com is a website which offers a wide variety of free short online courses from some of the world's top universities. It is quite a new scheme run by a private company and for 2013/14 all of the courses are pilots which will allow feedback and editing for the courses for the following years. New courses are unveiled regularly on the site and I have signed up for several of them including: England in the time of King Richard III (which started last week), Introduction to Forensic Science, Good Brain Bad Brain: Basics, Shakespeare's Hamlet: text, performance and culture, and finally Good Brain Bad Brain: Parkinson's Disease. Many of these courses begin in the new year, I will try my best to complete all of them although this will obviously depend on my work schedule.

I have also recently been offered a full-time job with the NHS as a Medical Illustration Support Worker. The job is within the National Diabetic Eye Screening Programme (NDESP) and so I have been reading a lot of related research and hope to learn much more along about the programme itself and diabetes along the way.

I am really looking forward to picking up where I left off with these blog posts and hope that they are both interesting and informative.

Thank you for reading.

Rose. X