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A mentoring mindset (Meddylfryd mentora)
Education & Development

A mentoring mindset (Meddylfryd mentora)

...education setting to develop an understanding of effective mentoring of beginner teachers in the initial teacher education and newly qualified phases. It has been designed using the experiences of colleagues working within the Welsh education system, but the messages about the principles of effective mentoring and coaching and the important role mentors have as...
Systems engineering: Challenging complexity
Science, Maths & Technology

Systems engineering: Challenging complexity

...technologies was developed and became operational within 18 months. Box 1 Choatic scheme that left families relying on food parcels Demands mount for overhaul of aid that led to ‘debt and despair’ Gordon Brown, the chancellor, faced fresh calls last night for a radical overhaul of the tax credit system after the Treasury published figures showing that administration...
Stephen Hawking: The tributes
Science, Maths & Technology

Stephen Hawking: The tributes

...Technology Professor Stephen Hawking was an inspiration to me to become not just a scientist but a communicator of that science. His work as a cosmologist, and discoveries in black hole physics were legendary. His best-known prediction, named by the community as Hawking Radiation, transformed black holes from inescapable gravitational prisons into objects that instead...
Challenging gender discrimination in academia: a call for inclusive change
Education & Development

Challenging gender discrimination in academia: a call for inclusive change

...education: Maximising impacts (Executive summary). Available at: https://www.britishcouncil.org/sites/default/files/gender_equality_in_higher_education_executive_summary.pdf Dias Lopes, A. and Wakeling, P. (2022) ‘Inequality in early career research in the UK life sciences’. Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council. Available at:
Researching at the Margins: How Collective Autoethnography centred Black mothers’ knowledge
Society, Politics & Law

Researching at the Margins: How Collective Autoethnography centred Black mothers’ knowledge

...Education and Claire’s in Politics, strengthened our analysis, showing how identity, care and power intersected across contexts. Perhaps most importantly, CoAE embodied the principle we were advocating; Black mothers’ experiences are a legitimate source of knowledge about the systems we navigate. In Mothering at the Margins, we modelled the kind of research that...
Emmy Noether: Bucking the historical trends
Science, Maths & Technology

Emmy Noether: Bucking the historical trends

...education, women are opting to work in sciences such as biology and medical sciences, rather than mathematics and physics. Historically, women have not enjoyed educational equality. Indeed, Oxford only began awarding degrees to women in the 1920s. Even today the number of women receiving degrees in mathematics is half that of men. In turn, this lack of access has seeded a...
Discovering the dark side of the Moon
Science, Maths & Technology

Discovering the dark side of the Moon

...and has published over 70 peer-reviewed papers in journals of high-scientific standing. He currently chairs the UK-node of the NASA Solar System Exploration Research Virtual Institute (SSERVI) comprising of over 100 members from 15 UK higher education institutions. In the video below, Mahesh discusses the far side of the moon and why we need samples from it. Transcript...
Effective approaches to mentoring: what works and why?
Education & Development

Effective approaches to mentoring: what works and why?

...Education and beyond). The project’s findings showed that a range of approaches to mentoring of student teachers are needed in order to be effective and that these need to be tailored according to the mentee-mentor dynamic. The project elicited thick descriptions of experience from participants by requesting them to bring an artefact (object, image or subtitle) which...