Blogs from Fellows and the team
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Blog: Bringing the issue of economic abuse into the mainstream
At our Award Ceremony in June 2018, Nicola Sharp-Jeffs received the Pol Roger award, which is given to a Fellow who has conducted an outstanding Fellowship and generated...
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Blog: What can businesses learn from charities?
Having spent almost 10 years working with charities and social enterprises, seeing the incredible commitment and talent of their people, I grew increasingly frustrated...
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Blog: Peer based support for socially marginalised pregnant women
In the UK today, some 7,000 women each year give birth without the emotional support of a birth partner. The effects of this can be profound and long-lasting, with...
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Blog: Making the Design Museum’s new home
In May the Design Museum was the venue for a fascinating evening of presentations from designers who have recently travelled overseas on Churchill Fellowships. For me,...
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Blog: Dementia and sensory challenges
12 years ago, at the age of 57, I was diagnosed with early age dementia. I ran a chiropractor’s office at the time, and I started to get lost going to work. I had to...
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Blog: Kings of the Yukon - an Alaskan river journey
In 2013 I received a Churchill Fellowship to travel through Alaska, exploring stories around climate change and resource use. I travelled widely in those eight weeks and...
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Blog: Modern solutions to modern stress
Today marks the start of Mental Health Awareness Week, with stress as this year’s theme. Stress has become part of the accepted tapestry of modern life: how many times...
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Blog: Beyond bereavement
On Friday 18 May my partner Jane Harris and I will be screening our documentary film ‘A Love that Never Dies’ at the Prince Charles Cinema in London’s West End. This is...
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Blog: Sharing global ideas on museum Lates
A Churchill Fellowship is all about legacy, they say. With this in mind, I am organising a conference based on the learning from my research on ‘Museum Lates’ at the...
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Blog: Promoting active citizenship in schools
As an Assistant Headteacher, I’m aware that nurturing democracy must start at an early age, especially at a time when the bastions of a free society are under attack. In...