This report discusses balancing the demands of teaching and research, a topic of two workshops held at the University of the West of England and at the 2008 Psychology Learning and Teaching Conference (PLAT 2008) in Bath. Based on the responses to the workshop activities and discussions, this paper describes some of the challenges faced by psychology academics in fulfilling the requirements of the teaching and research aspects of their work, and suggests some ways of managing these conflicting demands. It is proposed that a fruitful approach might be to see the two aspects as synergistic, and some techniques are suggested that might foster this reconciliation.
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