 Hi everyone and welcome back to UCAT Festival TV with me Colm Cronin and I am absolutely delighted to be joined today by Dr Peter Hagen. Peter how are you sir? Well I'm delighted as well thank you Colm. Now I know that you are a resident in New Jersey I believe and ordinarily of course you would be in the UK recovering from jet lag but it's all a little bit different this year with a virtual conference. Yes it certainly is. Coming to you live on Zoom. Too bad about April I wanted to see the United Kingdom but oh well. Well hopefully we can get you back over to the UK and Ireland at some point in the not too distant future but nonetheless UCAT have managed to put a great festival line up in the week ahead and as part of that you are the delivering the opening keynote which I'm looking forward to and can you tell me and I suppose viewers what is it that you're going to touch what do we have to look forward to? Well first of all thank you're lucky stars this didn't have been enabled because I had a very boring talk planned for that so this change in venue has given me the chance to sort of reinvent things so what I'm planning to talk about is very much along the lines of what I've written about in the past and it's going to be about narrative theory in academic advising personal tutoring. So this address is probably not going to make people feel warm and fuzzy you know I think I'm going to be making people uncomfortable in good ways in good ways because I'm going to be promoting some ideas that I wish to work on going forward into the future. I think that the time is right for what I'm calling the narrative paradigm in academic advising personal tutoring. For so long we have been dominated by ideas that were prominent in the west since the enlightenment and probably even farther back from Aristotle and his cronies. I think it's time to have a new way of looking at both the research in academic advising which I've mainly concentrated on but also the practice of academic advising from a narrative paradigm. So I'm going to be offering some principles that I think have to be part of such a narrative paradigm in academic advising and personal tutoring and so I'm hoping that people in the audience will sort of listen hard and push back because I'm testing these ideas out on the unsuspecting United Kingdom public. Well I think that we're going to be lucky that to get the opportunity to you know be the audience in which you talk about this. It's certainly wedded my appetite and you know we'll be speaking to an audience of people from around the world but I think both the UK and Ireland we do love our narrative, our storytelling. So I am certainly looking forward to it. I want to thank you Peter for joining me today. I look forward to the entirety of the week ahead and for anyone watching if you are interested in finding out about what is coming up of course you can check the UCAT website and also you can check out UCAT's various social media channels if you're watching this on YouTube we're on Facebook and Twitter and vice versa. So once again thank you very much Peter and enjoy the week ahead. Thank you Colin. You as well. Thank you.