leadership skills, technological skills, implementation, appraiser of literature, screening of research proposals and mediation. The other dimension to learning was variously described as “affirmation”, as “reaffirmation”, as “confirming my own practice”, as “having my thoughts confirmed by somebody else”, and “something that […] confirms any uncertainties I may have had about my own level of knowledge, [and] so reassures me that I know what I’m doing”. The questionnaire results supported the interview