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Yes, as PALS coordinator, there are various stages to the year, various responsibilities
that I've got, and they start around about the end of the year, the beginning of the
new year, when I have to think about talking to the programmes that might be interested
in running PALS next year, and those programmes that are running it this year to see whether
they're going to continue. Talking to the students in an introductory kind of way, for
those programmes that will be taking up PALS, that kind of thing. After that, there's the
recruitment process, and we find out from those students who are in the programme that's
going to run PALS, whether they'd be interested in being leaders, and they apply, and it's
quite a staged process, the recruitment process, so that they are reiterating their interest
over a period of months in fact, and they attend an expectations workshop as part of
that, so they can find out more about PALS. In the end, they sign up for training sessions
in September. So that's the recruitment phase, after that is the training really, and in
September we have quite an intensive programme of training. Each of the leaders has to complete
12 hours of training, and we collaborate with the academic coordinators for the programme
on that, so some of the training is across disciplines, and some of it is specific to
the programme. And then finally there's the ongoing phase where we run debriefs on a weekly
basis which we attend, and observe some of the sessions, provide support in other general
kinds of ways, organise student leaders to go to the conference, that kind of thing.