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Struggling to be heard: One woman’s video story
Society, Politics & Law

Struggling to be heard: One woman’s video story

...think female conductors can get away with more to diffuse situations. In my experience shouting ‘oy that’s enough’ to groups of guys if something is about to kick off works well. I would never try this with women because sometimes if they are intoxicated, they can see you as spoiling their fun or being the party police. With colleagues, I have never felt I’ve been...
From dreams to reality: becoming a nurse and educator
Health, Sports & Psychology

From dreams to reality: becoming a nurse and educator

...thinking to myself, this is the job I was born to do. I was successful in gaining this position and was passionate about this role, to the point that I resigned from the local Trust, where I had been working for 20 years. Now, everyone has a phase in their life that pushes them to their limits. Mine happened three years ago, when I had a sudden change in my personal life....
Supporting women musicians in the workplace
History & The Arts

Supporting women musicians in the workplace

...thinking about how you can foster inclusive practices, you can help to change this. Every year, thousands of women leave the workplace. Losing these women is bad for them, bad for the industry, and bad for the economy. Many of these women could be supported to stay, if offered appropriate flexibility and reasonable adjustments. By thinking through what you can do to...
Proper men, proper women: Gender roles in contemporary UK society
Health, Sports & Psychology

Proper men, proper women: Gender roles in contemporary UK society

...Think of the shops and product ranges which target women and men differently with the expectation that they'll have separate tastes and lifestyles. [Pink tools] Tools targeted at women: Hammers and knives with pink handles And it's well-known that women do more housework and childcare than their male partners, even in combination with paid employment, and in their careers...
A modest liking for Liverpool
History & The Arts

A modest liking for Liverpool

...think them "wonderful and almost endless," and so I dare say they are. But they formed only a very perfunctory interest of our day at Liverpool, where we had come to meet, not to take, a steamer. Our run from London, in the heart of June, was very quick and pleasant, through a neat country and many tidy towns. In the meadows the elms seemed to droop like our own rather...
Am I ready to be a distance learner?
Education & Development

Am I ready to be a distance learner?

...think about all the things you spend time doing across a week. Try to include everything you do to help you map out the time that you might have available for study. Inevitably, some of you will be incredibly busy and juggling lots of things, while some of you might realise that you already have time available for study. Now you have mapped out your available time for...
Supporting university students with a mental health condition
Health, Sports & Psychology

Supporting university students with a mental health condition

...think we need to be available and have understanding and compassion.’ Tutors explained what students needed from them in relation to communication, which is the focus of the next activity. Activity 2 List what you think students told us they need their tutors to be. To start you off here are three examples: encouraging, personable, patient. Can you suggest five more?...
Engineering: The challenge of temperature
Science, Maths & Technology

Engineering: The challenge of temperature

...systems move through, or heating systems fail. Moving around is not necessarily any better, and can expose us to even wider ranges of temperature. An airliner may leave the ground where the temperature is in the high twenties Celsius and climb within minutes to a height where the outside temperature is minus fifty. It turns out that almost all materials properties change...