Blogs from Fellows and the team
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Q&A: Engaging girls and women in science
Today is the International Day of Girls and Women in Science, a day marked by the United Nations to recognise the critical role women and girls play in science and...
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Blog: New category addressing increase in children and young people in care
The number of children and young people in care has hit an all-time high. This year we are launching a new category of Churchill Fellowships exploring this growing...
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Blog: Overcoming drug and alcohol problems through recovery communities
Substance misuse affects more than the individual - it also impacts families, employers, communities, local health services and wider society. Treatment and recovery...
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Q&A: New book by ambulanceman reveals mental health challenges in emergency services
On 24 January award-winning first-responder Dan Farnworth (2018 Fellow) will publish a memoir exploring the mental health problems of frontline staff in the emergency...
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Q&A: Science education through storytelling
How children learn science is being transformed through storytelling. Churchill Fellow Dr Sai Pathmanathan (2016) travelled to the USA to investigate how science...
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Blog: New Year brings new opportunities
2 Jan 2020 |New Year in the WCMT office is one of the most exciting moments in our year. Our Fellowship Director Tristan Lawrence looks ahead.
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Blog: Raising Chinatown’s cultural heritage
When local communities change, their stories risk being lost.
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Blog: Childhood obesity – what is the hype all about?
Obesity is the biggest epidemic facing our children at the moment. Yet our governments make only limited efforts to alter the trajectory of future generations.
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Blog: Teaching conflict history
The history of conflicts in the Middle East has many lessons for school pupils
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Blog: A new future for ex-offenders
Prisons, reoffending rates and rehabilitation have always been an emotive subject in the UK, with over 83,000 people currently in custody in England alone.