This study was undertaken with tutors and participants from a PG Certificate programme which was compulsory for all staff. There as a 10 credit module about e-journalling and identity and so the question for the study was What is the purpose of UK Higher Education and my role within it? This arose because the tutors when reviewing the journals felt that something was going on in terms of changes.

Ethical approval was sought and granted and grounded theory was used as an approach. The focus was on the journals but also how learning was facilitated by conversation. Again questions related to this were: How do you feel? How does this fit with your style of writing? What do you think?

 Personal relations in guiding learning journeys were important and so face to face meetings and phone calls helped move things forward.

There were 17 sets of data in the end. The issue of format for the writing and terms used were seen to be important. Initially the journals were formal but by the third this was less formal. There were also issues around if the tutor was from the same discipline and if they influenced the discussion.

More work will be done with other groups.