If you don’t like filling out forms, don’t head towards research. There seems to be an awful lot of tedious form filling. I have ethics clearance from UTS, so next job was to start applying for ethics clearance from Department of Education, called a SERAP application. You need this if you want to do any of your research in government schools. The main form, Form K, ended up being 55 pages long. 55 page form, honestly, is that madness or what! So after collecting all the paperwork they wanted including 2 certified copies of passport/licence and other assorted bits and pieces, I have filled in the online application and posted the package to the appropriate person in UTS, who then adds more paperwork and forwards it to DET. I then get to wait for 6-12 weeks for a response…..