UKAIS Conference 2012

I have just come back from presenting at the annual UKAIS conference PhD consortium. Last year I had a lovely time with everyone and this year was even better. The conference was held at New College Oxford and we also stayed on the grounds. The weather was glorious and the college was beautiful. It turns out that some scenes from Harry Potter were filmed there and scenes from the book His Dark Materials were based there. As I explored the grounds I could hear the choir singing in the chapel and it really added to the atmosphere.

 We had breakfast and lunch in the Great Hall and I really did feel like I was at Hogwarts.

My presentation at the conference actually went really well. I usually get so nervous when I present my work that I sometimes even have difficultly speaking, but the facilitators made me feel very comfortable and were very positive about my research. One of them made a comment that I was "pretty much there" and we both agreed that I still had to fine tune some aspects of my research. I left the conference with a regained sense of hope that I can actually finish my work in time and to a high standard. I had a really nice time and hopefully will be able to return next year with a full conference paper.