 Hello again, everyone, and welcome back to UCAT Festival TV. I'm Colm Cronin. We're halfway to True Day 2, and I am very pleased to be joined by the highly entertaining Carl Baker Green. Carl, how are you, sir? I'm all right, Colm. I'm all right. Now, we were chatting beforehand, and the near-biblical reign that we were experiencing in Dublin this morning seemed to be making its way across over your way. So hopefully the thunder and lightning won't interfere with the interview, but we'll see. I suppose to get to have viewers have the opportunity to get you to know you a little bit. How, you know, what is it that you do at your university and how did you get involved with UCAT? Oh, interesting. So I'm sociology course leader at Sheffield Down University, and I'm also a module leader on graduate development, mainly because I've always had a need, really, to help students. I don't know, I suppose it's from my working class backgrounds that I see this affliction to a lot of kids that come into our Sheffield Down University being a post-92 university. And we get a lot of students that are first-time at university. And they've got no confidence or lack of confidence. So this idea of personal tutoring and academic advising and being there for these students has always been part of what I think is important at university. And then a colleague of mine, Alison McCamley, I don't think she'll mind me mentioning her name, we got talking and she says, Cal, you want to get involved with this because it really is a good thing. And it really does, you know, dovetails to how you think. And I started talking to David, talking to Dave Locky, David Gray, and thought, yeah, I'd like to do this. And then I became, I said, oh, yeah, I've got no problem becoming your blog editor, which I am the blog editor. So please, if you've got anything for the blog, please send it to me. I don't care what it is, ideas, something that you've half-worked up, something you want to talk about, something you're interested in, please let me know because, yeah, it's very difficult when you're on your own. I could write everything from my perspective, but it gets a little boring. So that's a little plug for the blog. Yeah, great. So yeah, that's how I'm involved with UCAT because it's part of how I see my role as a course leader and as a person. Fantastic. I didn't know you were the editor of the blog. That's great. And we'll definitely put the contact details with this video. So how have you been enjoying the UCAT Festival thus far? It's been absolutely fantastic. I haven't actually attended any sessions, but I have chaired several. Well, three yesterday and I'm doing three today. I love the fact that there's been so many fantastic ideas, policies, theories and practices that have been explored and then discussed in these presentations. For example, this morning I chaired Nora Arafa's presentation on strategies to design and expand a peer support service. And I think it's fantastic the way that the American University is so that Sharjah, if I've said that right, where Nora works in the United Arab Emirates is actually utilizing a peer advisor system to help with tutoring and advising. And I was fascinated with how they were training high achieving students by shadowing actual tutor advisors and also via workshops to then be in a position to actually help students who were achieving, who weren't achieving at that level. Excellent stuff going off. Their ideas are coming forward. I also chaired Marjorie Wilson's presentation on developing and implementing a personal tutoring code and learning analytic at Teeside University. And again, totally fascinating how they use the technology in the form of this, I've never heard of it before, but this thing called stream to help understand our students are engaging with their course across their degree. Fantastic, absolutely brilliant. Both presentations fantastically presented, really appreciated by those who attended. And we also had some fantastic lively discussions and thankfully these have been recorded. So people who attended other parts of the other streams in this presentation will be able to actually view them at a time in their leisure, which is what I'm going to do with some of the ones that I couldn't because I was chairing. Yeah, I think that's actually one of the upsides to the virtual nature of the event. Ordinarily, you have to choose between sessions and you might miss out. Whereas now you do have to choose, but later on you can actually go back if there's another session. So and there has been so many brilliant sessions happening thus far. And there is a whole lot more to come over the next couple of days. Is there anything in particular that you're looking forward to? Well, I say looking forward to chairing again on Thursday Friday, so I might not be able to get to some of the sessions. What I am looking forward to, though, is the pub quiz tonight, because I'm hosting that. And that's six fantastic rounds, questions, including general knowledge, back to school, film, books and TV, sports, a picture round and a music round. So, you know, there's some fantastic prizes. Well, if you think fantastic prizes are the ones that you get on Blankety Blank, they're fantastic prizes. But please, just come along. You'll really enjoy it. You'll be put into teams automatically. There's no choosing teams. Just turn up. Fantastic. But I am looking forward to the rest of the conference as well. Thursday and Friday. Yeah. Yeah, that's a lot of good stuff. So and it's good to know that if somebody is just turning up on their own tonight, they will be put into a team so they don't have to have a readymade team or anything like that. And perhaps like Bullseye, you could win your bus fare home. Here's what you could have won. For anyone watching, if you want more information, do check out the UCAT website and the various UCAT social media channels. Carl, I want to thank you for chatting to me today. It's been really good fun. It has. Thank you, Colin.