Back to the class room: a return to lecturing in astronomy in stellar atmosphere theory
It is perhaps surprising that I haven’t written any blogs this year on university astronomy teaching. After all, in a normal year I would spend over half my time preparing lectures, giving lectures, setting student assignments and then reading them and supervising laboratory classes in astronomy.
Teaching is an integral and essential part of university life in New Zealand – very few academics have the luxury of full-time research posts. Those few who do are mainly those on short-term postdoc fellowships. Here the security of permanent university employment entails the obligation to teach.
