One important thing my colleague and co-founder Iain Smith introduced to our Women in Transport Lead programme, was the work of Shirzad Chamine, and his TED talk “Know Your Inner Saboteurs”. When you have a quiet moment, this is well worth twenty minutes of your time. There is also the free on-line saboteur questionnaire which you can complete; we use…
Did you know that the Olympic Games originally ran for at least one thousand years, from 776 BC to 373 AD at the ancient site of Olympia? This town of 750 significant buildings can be found in the Peloponnese, a peninsula in the southern part of Greece. The Roman Emperor Theodosius I, a Christian, abolished the Games, as part…
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…
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