 Good morning everyone. As indicated, I'm Bernadette Walton from the University of Limerick and I'm the Director of Student Affairs in the Student Affairs Division. So, just trying to, now I'm gone too far. So, that's the division there. We've nine different units. They are primarily to support students. There's the kind of student welfare areas, student health, chaplaincy and counseling. Then there is the underrepresented student offices and there the access office, the mature student office and the disability support office. And then I have three areas which I call the student development areas which are around the arts, civic engagement, getting students involved in volunteering and the first year experience and retention officer. Some of these units are just one person units. They're not all big units. Some of them are big six or eight or whatever. The university about two years ago decided to appoint a new, I put together a business case for a new role in the university which is, at the time was called the first year experience and retention coordinator which is a bit of a mouthful. And my colleague Sarah Gibbons was appointed into that but, however, Sarah has moved into a different area in the centre of teaching and learning so the role is back up to be filled again and we've retitled it this time to our first year support coordinator. And there is a virtual unit in the University of Limerick which is kind of unique really because it's three areas, student affairs, it's the centre of teaching and learning and it's the library. All looking with a resource, a dedicated resource in each of those units working together closely in relation to engaging students, ensuring that they're successful and as a corollary that they're retained. So that's kind of the purpose of that unit and we meet regularly and we're doing great work I think so far. The opportunities are that, you know, that integrated approach is three very different areas in the university trying to support students and trying very much to engage students and by engaging students I mean engaging them in the classroom and engaging them outside the classroom. As I said our first year support coordinator role is new and developing. It's kind of a greenfield site really for that role as yet. I mean there's a lot of data analytics in it which I'll come to again because that's a challenge for us. Also that there is beginning to be champions around the university, around the whole student engagement and success coming from the top down which is good. Because I think unless we have somebody who is passionate about student engagement and success at very senior level in the university you know we could be doing a lot of very good work but it might not be heard at the top table. The challenges for us are the whole data, what data should we be looking at, what data should we be collecting so as it can inform university policy. I mean it's interesting to hear that you know attendance is necessarily a marker of student success at the end of the day. So we don't have an attendance policy but is that something we might want. So you know that type of data so that we can be looking strategically and making strategic decisions around what the data is informing us. That's a challenge. Where? What data? The tracking mechanisms to identify at-risk students. We are already identifying at-risk students in all sorts of hard ways and doing our best to support those students. But it's you know all these data sets and how do we pull them all together. And I suppose today already I've learned something because somebody mentioned they're here to learn and I've certainly learned you know that there is this national analytics forum. And the development of you know the expert groups and I certainly want to feed into that. So that's good to know. I really struggled with this because I said where to go next. Because it's a minefield literally you know we already collect so much data. And I hate the idea of collecting more data and more reports and you know using valuable resources in the university. And then they're all just left aside because they're not in no strategic decisions. So it's you know I really need guidance in relation to well where should we be starting. And we're having a discussion around that today and that's good. But it is at the end of the day for me around ensuring that students have a good experience and what does that mean. And that we get them in we in the first semester that it's key that we keep them happy that they have that sense of belonging. And how do we get that for them so that you know they are successful at the end of semester one and then they're progressing. I believe that if we can get them through first year we can they're really on their ways. You know the KPIs they are what would that look like. And just even you know looking at the institutional data that we have in relation to some of the programs where we know there's serious issues around student engagement and our failure rates and non completion rates. So that's it.