One of my favourite events last year was to be on the judging panel for the Half Cut film Festival so I was delighted when Charlotte Walsh, President of Rogue Productions, and Julz Newton, Vice President, asked me to join the panel for this year's big event which takes place at the New Picture House on 22 April.

The Facebook event can be found here. Details on submissions can be found at the On The Rocks Festival website.

The Sustainable Development Society asked me introduce one of the speakers contributing to their lecture series and I gladly chose to welcome Dr Tony Jackson of Dundee University. I recall Tony as an lively lecturer recently returned from working in Africa whose classes I attended when I studied economics at St Andrews. Our paths crossed again many years later when I worked for Friends of the Earth and Tony by that time had moved to Dundee to set up the environmental management course. So it was a pleasure to be back in School II to hear about his current work on strategic environmental assessment and sustainability appraisal.