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Will Smith’s behaviour at the Oscars has prompted a rash of writing, it has urged me to share something of my own story and thinking too. In the era I was brought up, what we now call domestic violence was far more common. Sometimes it was even seen as an ordinary and appropriate part of parenting. After seven years in…
I got a message that our elderly neighbour wanted her spare key returning. I dug it out and crossed the road to see her. She is in her 90s, increasingly frail and it was very near the beginning of Lockdown 1. She opened the door, relying heavily on her walking stick. Given her age, I kept a good 2m apart….
As part of my Physics degree, I completed eight weeks’ vacation training at the United Kingdom Atomic Energy Authority (UKAEA) at Culham in Oxfordshire at the end of my second year. We were looking at nuclear fusion. The experience didn’t feel like it was going too well – it was allowing me to see that scientific research wasn’t a good…
Are you a New Year Resolution or goal setting person? As an alternative, I am allowing myself three best hopes for 2022: My first best hope for 2022 is to find my waist again. For me, this is a metaphor representing appearance, weight, health, and quite honestly, probably many more things too. What could get in the way? There is…
Clarifying your purpose is a big part of our Women in Transport Lead programme, and it’s a hard thing to do. Here are three ways to feel your way into your purpose, to compliment a more typical, and maybe familiar, cognitive approach. No. 1 – When you feel a strong sense of who you are At university one of the…
Our assumptions, which Nancy Kline in her recent book described as larvae to our beliefs, do not always help us the most. With our Women in Transport leadership programme, Lead, we are coming to the end of our first programme. Our participants are starting to articulate the shift they want to make; in their role, their organisation, the impact they…
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