Follow up to conversation with Sian

Over the weekend, Sian was kind enough to take time to discuss my (lack of) progress on the dissertation. This subsequent e-mail is a pretty good record of where we left things:

"Hi James

I'd hoped to get a chance to touch base with you on this f2f but  
didn't manage it today. My understanding of the situation is that you  
are currently considering two possible areas of research:

1) something around 'feedforward' and multimodality
2) something around multimodality and alternative forms of academic  
writing (possibly specifically within the context of policy at UoE)

I'm not quite sure where we left it in terms of supervision, so here's  
my view.

1) If you want to research feedforward, Dai would be an excellent  
supervisor for you (I would worry a bit that he wouldn't be able to  
give you a lot of time, but suspect that once you have your direction  
you may not need too much 'hands-on' supervision)
2) If you want to research multimodal assessment and/or policy from  
within 'visual' ways of understanding, and of methods, you would be  
better supervised by me as it's one of my own research areas.

I'm sure there are other options here in terms of topic, which I'd be  
happy to discuss with you any time.

Either way, I'd like to help get things moving for you, so please just  
let me know where you'd like to go with this next.

all the best, hope you had a good journey home,

Sian"