Finding a coach is one of those things that seems to be reserved for high achievers. We often don’t feel worthy of investing the time, or money, in ourselves. Increasingly I’ve noticed that universities are offering coaching as part of their staff development programme. …
Is research bad for your health? And what can we do to mitigate it? Wellbeing has sprung to the forefront of our minds following a stressful three years, and never more so than for PhD students, recent doctoral graduates, and early career researchers. It’s…
It seems the word decolonisaiton itself puts up barriers and is problmentic in addressing. What does it mean and what can you do? Here are 5 tips.
6 networking tips for early career and PhD scientists and engineers Dr Jan Peters MBE Back at my desk this morning, there was something like 426 browser tabs open. I’d rushed off to join an exercise class after a series of online calls and…
You will take away from this workshop a new vocabulary to talk, with confidence, about yourself. Your investment in participating will reward you week after week as you start your journey to become your ‘best self’. Our Making the Most (of you) workshop offers…
We’re delighted to find out that our Inclusion approach – our approach to designing inclusion into engineering education – continually evolving, innovating, and infusing inclusion across the teaching landscape has been recognized by the IET. We’re a finalist in the Innovation Awards. After all…
And where did Inclusion Power-up come from? Over lockdowns, I’ve been harnessing my ideation to build a collection of inclusion power-ups. Ways to help engineering teaching colleagues gain confidence in being more inclusive. . I find that every time I speak with someone or…
Our names can reveal important clues about who we are, our age, ethnicity, or social class, for example, that can affect how we’re treated by others. Exploring research on names is fascinating in itself.
If you buy books or love learning you might already be in a book group or two. But if you find you rarely get round to reading them, then perhaps you need an additional incentive to dig into them? There are at least four…
Few of us work alone these days. We all depend on others to help us deliver our work, daily, weekly or monthly. We tend to drift into routines. Our networks can become limited. So how can you invest a bit of time to enrich…