Blogs from Fellows and the team
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Blog: Providing online trauma therapy for key workers
Key workers providing treatment, care and emergency response on the frontline are at risk of developing mental health problems linked to the current Covid-19 crisis. My...
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Long read: Recommendations for tackling childhood obesity
The UK is the third fattest nation in Europe, according to a World Health Organization study of 53 nations published in 2018. Almost two-thirds of adults in the UK are...
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Blog: Looking to the future
This is a time of change, of challenge and of opportunity. The past year has brought increasing evidence of the interconnectedness of the human world – and its...
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Blog: Mental health support for young carers during the pandemic
Covid-19 has increased pressure on the estimated 700,000 young careers across the UK. In my role as CEO of TYKES, a support service for young people in Scotland who have...
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Blog: Can storytelling improve children’s mental health?
September 7 is Youth Mental Health Awareness Day – and this year it is needed more than ever.
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Long read: How Covid-19 could transform UK tourism
International tourism has plummeted from being the world’s largest economic sector and employer to being the worst hit part of the global economy.
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Blog: Top tips for teachers returning to school after lockdown
2 Sep 2020 |As schools reopen this week, we asked five Fellows in education to share their top tips for fellow teachers.
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Blog: Strengthening local food supply chains post Covid-19
As a nation we are reliant on a global web of producers, processors, distributors, and retailers to put food on our tables. The risk in such complexity recently became a...
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Blog: Domestic abuse - including the LGBTQ+ community
Looking back, thanks to Covid-19, the last few months have felt like a relentless succession of changes. A lockdown on an unprecedented scale has given way to an opening...
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Blog: Bringing outsider art into the mainstream
I thought long and hard about the title of my Fellow’s Report. At an event I attended during my travels, a panellist described outsider art as ‘the art that doesn’t know...