ABSTRACT
By the end of 2012, the benefits of the Public Sociology course for the students had been established, though there was room for improvement. I then asked the five community liaisons (the managers of the Book Bus, the newspaper, the food banks, the gifted and talented programme and the indigenous outreach (Science Wananga)) if they saw benefits from participating in the Public Sociology course. What was their experience of interacting with the students and with me? Of the two studies following the 2012 course (the students and the community liaisons experience), listening to the honest and robust accounts by community liaisons provided some of the most excruciating moments in my teaching career. If this chapter is the omelette, I was the eggs. As this chapter attests, 1 I may have been well intentioned, but I made mistakes. Luckily, once identified, they were remedied.
