Blogs from Fellows and the team
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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...
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Blog: Catching up with our cousins. A catalyst for innovation
In 2015 I was given the life-changing opportunity of a Churchill Fellowship, aware that with this opportunity came a responsibility to use my research to benefit society...
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Blog: Narrowing the gap in children’s school readiness
Almost half of all children from disadvantaged backgrounds do not reach their expected level of development when they start school,* by which time the gap between...
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Blog: Bringing new models of youth justice to Hampshire
Earlier this month, as 150 UK citizens rejoiced in the news they had become part of an esteemed and diverse family of Churchill Fellows, I was reflecting on the fifth...