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“Everything begins with an idea”. Earl Nightingale
10 January 2019
Hello Happy New Year and welcome to our first blog of 2019. I started last year with a blog about New Year’s resolutions. I thought I would start 2019 sharing some of what we have in the pipeline…
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“Without continual growth and progress, such words as improvement, achievement and success have no meaning” – Benjamin Franklin
12 December 2018
Hello and welcome to this week’s blog, the last for 2018. I can’t believe it’s been just over a year since we set up the blog. We’ve managed to post at least once a fortnight thanks to the…
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Our life gets better by change
28 November 2018
Hello I hope you’ve enjoyed the personal stories over the last few weeks. They are really powerful, aren’t they? This week I thought I would set out the equality, diversity and inclusion context within which they sit. I…
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You just have to respect me.
14 November 2018
Hi This week we have a guest blogger, Eli. Eli is a Level 6 Illustration student currently working as an intern within the team. This is a very timely post as we mark Transgender Awareness Week When you…
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Labels are for cans
7 November 2018
Hello Welcome to this week’s blog. I’d like to pick up the theme from our last post. Unfortunately, we weren’t able to post last week. We were at Advance HE’s Equality, Diversity and Inclusion Conference in Liverpool. In…
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Let us make our future now: Malala Yousafzai
24 October 2018
Hello Last week a student pointed out to me that, we are almost at the first anniversary of our blog. I hadn’t noticed at all! However, now that I have, I’d like to say a massive thank you…
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There’s no “I” in team
17 October 2018
Hello I thought I would continue the theme of race in this week’s blog and talk about our Challenge for Change project. If you read our blog regularly, you’ll know this is our project with Advance HE. In…
Read moreMental Health – What does it mean for you?
10 October 2018
Hello Today is World Mental Health Day. It is observed every year on 10th October to raise awareness of mental health issues around the world. In recognition of this, I have re-posted a blog a colleague wrote earlier in…
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“We Cannot Walk Alone”. Martin Luther King Jr
3 October 2018
Hello In this week’s blog, I thought I would build on last week’s theme. We highlighted the origins of Black History Month with a post from Professor Neil Wynn. It’s important to set out the context for events like…
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Black History Month | History
26 September 2018
Hello This week’s blog features a Black History Month blog from 2014. This was a topic I intended to cover, ahead of October, which marks Black History Month in the UK. However, a colleague in History kindly offered this blog…
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