I am currently fortunate enough to be on
a 3-yr fellowship funded by the Economic and Social Research
Council which has bought me out of teaching and, notionally, admin
(I still do admin - can’t escape it!). I actually miss the
contact with the students, though to be honest, the one thing I do
not miss is the marking. I think that marking is possibly the worst
teaching-related activity we have to do!
When I did teach, it was on two courses here at York, as well as
guest spots on various other courses.
At undergraduate level I taught on a 3rd year advanced course
called
The Language Machine. It presents issues in
language processing through a combination of neuroscientific (i.e.
brain imaging), reading, and 'visual world' studies (which monitor
eye movements as participants view a visual scene and hear a
sentence that describes something that applies to the
objects/people in the scene). I co-taught this course with
Silvia
Gennari.
I also taught an introductory statistics course to our 80-90
Masters students. I used the 2nd edition of Andy Field's
Discovering Statistics through SPSS. A new edition has
just come out which, to my mind, is even better. And just what
the students I need.