Blogs from Fellows and the team
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Blog: Reaching across the nation
One flight, twelve trains, five hotel rooms, six speeches, four dinners and a lot of beautiful scenery and coastline have filled the last ten days for me. I’ve been in...
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Blog: Expeditionary learning for low-income schoolchildren
Children from low-income families are falling further behind their more affluent peers whilst they are at secondary school. That was the finding of a report by the...
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Blog: The Churchill oak in Churchill village
What have an oak tree and a Plymouth pear tree got to do with my Fellowship to the USA and Australia in 1995, where I studied the investigation of fraud? I was so...
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Blog: Theatre and dementia
Dementia currently affects around 850,000 people across the UK, many lacking access to stimulating social and cultural experiences and at risk of becoming isolated.
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Blog: Teaching parallel histories
More than 550,000 students in England and Wales took GCSE History this summer – but only 2,200 of them studied Israel and Palestine. Teachers are shying away from...
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Blog: Babies cry, you can cope
Abusive Head Trauma (AHT), also known as Shaken Baby Syndrome, is a devastating form of child abuse. As a registered nurse and health visitor specialising in child...
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Blog: Expedition to the North Pole
I’ve just come back from the North Pole. It was without a doubt the most challenging thing I have ever done, but the truth is, I would go again.
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Blog: Black code matters
It's National Coding Week! Let's roll up our sleeves and get changing the world, one line of JavaScript at a time. Is it quite as simple as all that? Let me...
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Blog: Harnessing immigrants’ entrepreneurial talents
Two years ago, I read a 2014 report by the Centre for Entrepreneurs which stated that, although immigrants are responsible for starting one in seven of all UK companies,...
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Blog: Getting UK pollinator conservation buzzing
Bees and other insect pollinators are currently under severe threat in the UK. Pesticide poisoning, increased disease as well as destruction of nesting sites and nectar...