January 2012

20 Jan 2012

I haven’t really started the placement module yet, I’m still trying to write/negotiate a project proposal that suits all the stakeholders. Any contact I thought I might be able to get with patients is ruled out because I don’t have time to get ethics committee approval so it’s looking like I might be doing some extensive literature reviews and, working on the advice from Professor Marshall, looking into prototyping some containers/carriers that allow patients to carry antihistamine tablets securely and covertly.

I also need to get to grips with the ethics procedures because I will need approval when it comes to the major project, there will have to be contact with patients/stakeholders. Professor Marshal is in the process of building up a list of people willing to be interviewed so it is essential that I get ethics approval.

I should have the project outline finished and in place over this coming week-end. I’ll post details when I do.

17.1.12

Although I’m doing the placement module I’m also sitting in on some of the lectures for the Strategic Information Design module. A task set in preparation for this module was making notes about sleep patterns to use during the module. I used the iPhone app Sleep Cycle over 7 nights to get the data in case I had the opportunity to use or in case anyone hadn’t managed to get data they are welcome to use mine. It’s posted below. It should be noted that this is measured during a holiday period and I stayed up later than usual although I am sure that average hours of sleep are the same as usual.

7th Jan

Went to bed / woke up: 03:40 / 08:00

Total time: 4h 20m