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David Southwick is the Member for Caulfield in Victoria. David has held several Parliamentary Positions.In April 2013, David was appointed as the Parliamentary Secretary for Police and Emergency Services. In December 2014, David was appointed into the Shadow Ministry as the Shadow Minister for Innovation, Shadow Minister for Energy and Resources and Shadow Minister for Renewables.In November 2018, David was appointed as Shadow Minister for Police, Shadow Minister forCommunity Safety and Shadow Minister for Corrections. In September 2021, David was elected as the Deputy Leader of the Liberal Party in Victoria and wasappointed as the Shadow Minister for Jobs and Employment, Shadow Minister for the Events Industry, Shadow Minister for Business Recovery, Shadow Minister for CBD Recovery, Shadow Minister for Small Business, and Shadow Minister for Business Precincts.In the State election held in November 2022, David was re-elected for another 4-year term as the Member for Caulfield. His Party's colleagues also re-elected him as Deputy Leader of the Liberal Party.David is currently Shadow Minister for Police and Corrections, Shadow Minister for Youth and Future Leaders and Shadow Minister for Youth Justice.David has an extensive background in innovation, entrepreneurship, and small business. He also spent several years in academia, including serving as RMIT's first Entrepreneur in Residence and as Head of the Executive Education Unit at Victoria University.David continues in his commitment to young people and various local charities. As the Member for Caulfield, David has supported local initiatives including a charity fundraising run at Caulfield Racecourse. As the inaugural Chair of the Social Inclusion Leadership Committee (SILC) he seeks to promote the inclusion of people with disability in employment and community life in Victoria. In recognition of his work assisting local youth, David was awarded the City of Stonnington's Citizen of the Year in 2009. David holds a Bachelor of Business from Victoria University. In 1991 he was awarded an Honorary Fellowship in recognition of his service on the Victoria University Council.In his spare time David enjoys keeping fit, following the St Kilda Saints and spending time with family.Deborah's Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/what.ive.learnt/Mind, Film and Publishing: https://www.mindfilmandpublishing.com/Apple Podcast: https://podcasts.apple.com/au/podcast/what-ive-learnt/id153556330Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/3TQjCspxcrSi4yw2YugxBkBuzzsprout: https://www.buzzsprout.com/1365850

The podcast features Chapman Shum, the nasen Young Advocate of the Year 2024 winner, discussing his journey as a visually impaired musician. Chapman, who was born blind and has learning difficulties, shares how music has been a powerful tool for connection and expression. He emphasises that challenges can be overcome and aims to inspire others facing difficulties. His mentor, Professor Adam, highlights Chapman's exceptional musical abilities, including his talent for improvisation and participation in the National Open Youth Orchestra. The conversation highlights the importance of recognising the musical potential in children with disabilities, challenging stereotypes, and promoting inclusive music-making. They also discuss the Amber Trust, a charity supporting blind and partially sighted children in music, and the Sounds of Intent framework, which focuses on recognising the musical abilities of children with complex needs.   About Chapman Chapman is a young pianist who has overcome significant challenges to achieve success in music. Born blind and with complex disabilities, including autism and hearing loss, he began learning piano at the age of 6. By 13, he had earned the ABRSM ARSM diploma in Piano Performance. A recipient of the Amber Trust Award, Chapman is also a proud member of both the National Open Youth Orchestra London “NOYO” and the London Youth Folk Ensemble “LYFE”, where he continues to explore his passion for music and collaboration. Through his performances, he strives to inspire others and promote inclusivity. In 2024, Chapman was named the nasen Advocate of the Year.   About Adam Adam Ockelford is a Professor of Music at the University of Roehampton in London, celebrated for his transformative contributions to music education and accessibility for individuals with disabilities. He is the founder of The Amber Trust, a charity dedicated to supporting blind and partially sighted children on their musical journeys, ensuring that every child, regardless of their needs, can experience the joy and empowerment of music.   As the creator of the "Sounds of Intent" framework, Adam has developed innovative ways to support musical development for individuals with diverse abilities. His pioneering work in music psychology and education has had a profound impact, particularly on children with autism, blindness, and other disabilities.    In recognition of his dedication to inclusive music-making, Adam was recently awarded an Honorary Fellowship from Trinity College London. This prestigious honour acknowledges his efforts to ensure that everyone, regardless of their circumstances, has their musical abilities recognized and celebrated.   Beyond his research and advocacy, Adam is an accomplished musician and inspiring educator, empowering countless young musicians to achieve extraordinary milestones and demonstrating that music has the power to connect, inspire, and transform lives.   About the nasen awards The nasen awards celebrate outstanding contributions to the education and support of children and young people with SEND. These annual awards recognise individuals, schools, and organisations that demonstrate exceptional commitment to inclusive education and the advancement of SEND practices. nasen is a charitable organisation that supports children and young people with SEND. nasen's goals include Influencing government policy, providing information, training and resources to support practitioners and contributing to the debate and effecting change to improve outcomes for children and young people.   Contact Chapman https://www.facebook.com/musicismytruecalling/ https://www.instagram.com/scmchapman?igsh=MWFjYTkxMWsxaHR1 https://x.com/ChapmanShum musicismytruecalling@gmail.com   Contact Adam https://www.facebook.com/theambertrust https://www.instagram.com/theambertrust?igsh=amNpdm9pcTBvNWZr https://x.com/theambertrust a.ockelford@roehampton.ac.uk   Useful Links nasen website nasen events and CPD nasen live conference  nasen Awards   B Squared Website – www.bsquared.co.uk  Meeting with Dale to find out about B Squared - https://calendly.com/b-squared-team/overview-of-b-squared-sendcast  Email Dale – dale@bsquared.co.uk  Subscribe to the SENDcast - https://www.thesendcast.com/subscribe   The SENDcast is powered by B Squared We have been involved with Special Educational Needs for over 25 years, helping show the small steps of progress pupils with SEND make. B Squared has worked with thousands of schools, we understand the challenges professionals working in SEND face. We wanted a way to support these hardworking professionals - which is why we launched The SENDcast! Click the button below to find out more about how B Squared can help improve assessment for pupils with SEND in your school.

The actress/nurse (who was honoured recently by the Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland with an Honorary Fellowship) chats about how she got her start in acting and why, between acting jobs in tv and film, she also keeps up her original career as a nurse

In this "Giants in Plastic Surgery" episode of the PRS Global Open Deep Cuts Podcast, Dr. Mohammad Al-Qattan shares his remarkable journey in plastic and hand surgery. From his early training in Canada as a Saudi national to overcoming the personal challenge of a multiple myeloma diagnosis, Dr. Al-Qattan reflects on the pioneering mentors who shaped his dedication to the craft. He also discusses how he balanced the demands of a high-pressure career with his personal life. This conversation provides a unique insight into the resilience, determination, and commitment that have defined Dr. Al-Qattan's distinguished career and his significant contributions to the field of hand surgery.   Read a recent classic PRS Global Open article by Dr. Al-Qattan and colleagues, “Open Surgical Excision of Dorsal Wrist Ganglia: Puncturing the Dome Reduces Surgery Time“: https://bit.ly/WristGangliaAlQattan   Dr. Mohammad Al-Qattan is a distinguished plastic surgeon and one of the foremost experts in hand surgery. After completing his medical education at King Saud University, Dr. Al-Qattan went on to train in plastic surgery at the University of Manitoba in Winnipeg, Canada. During his residency, he received a special gift from his mentor, Professor Stranc, who instilled in him the principle of "Remember your roots." This message, along with the dedication to becoming a "fourth-generation plastic surgeon," has guided Dr. Al-Qattan throughout his esteemed career. His work has combined clinical practice with groundbreaking research, and he has published nearly 500 articles, primarily focused on hand surgery and basic science.   As he reflects on his career, Dr. Al-Qattan's journey has been marked by challenges and triumphs, including overcoming a battle with multiple myeloma. Today, he is regarded as a pioneer in Saudi Arabia's plastic and hand surgery fields, having earned numerous accolades, including an Honorary Fellowship from the American College of Surgeons. His legacy as a teacher, clinician, and researcher continues to inspire future generations of surgeons, as he seeks to pass on his knowledge and passion for combining clinical excellence with scientific inquiry to the next generation of hand surgeons.   Your host, Dr. Vimal Gokani, is a senior Specialty Registrar in plastic surgery in London, England. Your producer & editor, Charlene Kok, is a Year 3 Medical Student in Imperial College London, England, with a keen interest in Plastic Surgery.   #PRSGlobalOpen #DeepCutsPodcast #PlasticSurgery #GiantsPlasticSurgery

Creativity through the lens of a professional executive coach and mentor"Creativity is a difficult word to define. It's more about what are you actually trying to achieve." David Roche is a professional coach and mentor working with a select few first-time CEOs across several sectors through his company Grey Area Coaching. He is also non-exec Chair of London Book Fair and Chair of the writing agency New Writing North. Additionally, he works with publishers and start-ups and lectures at the NFTS to their MA Creative Entrepreneurship students. David's second book, Become a Successful First-Time CEO, was published in March 2024 and is an Amazon #1 Bestseller (https://amzn.to/4dDFL55).David has worked in both retail and publishing as CEO of Borders and BOOKS etc, Product Director of both Waterstones and HMV, and Group Sales and Marketing Director of HarperCollins Publishing. He has also been President of the Booksellers Association and received several industry awards; in 2017 David was awarded an Honorary Fellowship from the University of Central Lancashire for services to the UK book trade.https://www.linkedin.com/in/davidroche/https://greyareacoaching.co.uk/Send us a text

David Roche is a professional coach and mentor, specializing in guiding first-time CEOs through his company Grey Area Coaching. He serves as non-exec Chair of the London Book Fair and Chair of New Writing North, while also lecturing at NFTS. David's second book, Become a Successful First-Time CEO, became an Amazon #1 Bestseller in March 2024. With a background as CEO of Borders and BOOKS etc., and roles at Waterstones, HMV, and HarperCollins, David has made significant contributions to retail and publishing. He was awarded an Honorary Fellowship in 2017 for his services to the UK book trade.

So after three days of judging images for the British Institute Of Professional Photographers, it's time for me to step down from my role as Chair Of Awards And Qualifications.  I have been in the role for three years and it is time for someone else to pick up the reins and run with it (if that isn't a mixed metaphor.) I have loved doing this and if it weren't for a million things I have to go on and do, I think I would do it forever!  So as I drive home from my last round of qualifications - possibly the best one I've ever been involved in - here are a few musings of things I have spotted. This is a 'Tales From The Land Rover' edition so please forgive the audio quality and any mild road rage! Enjoy!   Cheers P. If you enjoy this podcast, please head over to Mastering Portrait Photography, for more articles and videos about this beautiful industry. You can also read a full transcript of this episode. PLEASE also subscribe and leave us a review - we'd love to hear what you think! If there are any topics, you would like to hear, have questions we could answer or would like to come and be interviewed on the podcast, please contact me at paul@paulwilkinsonphotography.co.uk.    Transcript EP158 Heading Home From The Awards Introduction and Event Recap [00:00:00] Paul In The Defender: So for those of you who love the Land Rover episodes, you'll be thrilled to hear that I'm just leaving the BIPP, the British Institute of Professional Photography Awards, uh, event 2024 25. Uh, why do we call it 2024 and 2025 is because if you get an award at the end of a year, it's a real pain from a marketing point of view if you can only say you have an award for 2024. So we call it 2024 slash 25, uh, just to extend the marketing value. So you're, you hold the titles for a year, , so why wouldn't we? Anyway, that's where I've been. I've just spent an absolute fortune on some fuel, uh, because I hadn't got a lot of choice but to fill up at a service station. [00:00:47] And I am just pulling in to traffic. He says, concentrating on driving. Driving and Multitasking [00:00:52] Paul In The Defender: I had a lovely, uh, lovely email from someone this week. , sorry I'm driving so I can't, uh, look up your name. I'm so, I think it was John McCarthy. I'm gonna go with John McCarthy. , who said, amongst many other things, uh, he doesn't know how I drive and record a podcast at the same time. [00:01:09] Well, the answer to that is I drive. And chat. Uh, there's not a lot of structure to it, , and a few people have said this week they like the podcast like that, uh, because, uh, they find it interesting to hear me ad libbing. I don't know whether that's, I don't know whether there's merit in that, but yeah, I am ad libbing because driving is the priority. [00:01:30] They also said, uh, John said, I'm sure it's John McCarthy. I hope it is, if not, uh, I'm crediting somebody who's a fictional character. , he also said that uh, he can hear in everything we're talking about just how busy we are here at the studio. And it must be hard to find the time to fit in to do the podcast, and it is, which is why, uh, I am recording while driving. [00:01:52] , but he did also go on to say, he loves it when we do them. Uh, they are really valuable. They don't just disappear out there into the ether. There are lots of you out there in the photographic community listening to, uh, hopefully enjoying, uh, at least to a, a greater or lesser degree, the podcast. [00:02:10] So here we are. I'm Paul, and this is the Mastering Portrait Photography Podcast. Well, hello one and all. Uh, I am in relatively. Reasonably slow, fast ish, medium paced traffic, which is not good for me getting home quickly. I've got about an hour and a half of driving, but it is good from a road noise point of view 'cause at this speed, the road noise in my Land Rover isn't quite as, uh, intrusive as it would be. I see. It's not so much the road noise as the wind noise in this thing. I'm just looking at the other side of the motorway and thinking, I'm glad I'm not going that way 'cause it's must have been an accident. [00:03:01] It's absolutely log jammed. Reflections on a Photography Career [00:03:04] Paul In The Defender: Uh, so what have I been up to? Well, it was the awards. It was the British Institute of Professional Photography International Awards yesterday in, uh, Bromsgrove, which is in Birmingham, in the Midlands, in the heart, in the heart of the country. Uh, an absolutely wonderful event. [00:03:20] Lots of our friends and lots of colleagues, lots of photographers, uh, having a drink, having a laugh, and celebrating some of the very best images. That you can, uh, possibly imagine is absolutely brilliant. Uh, I have to say it's my last formal event as chair, uh, of qualifications and awards of the BIPP and I. [00:03:41] I guess I have to just say a quick thank you, uh, to Martin Bains and the guys at the British Institute for asking me to take on the role. It has been the honor of a lifetime. You know, when you start out in photography, I, I was just a kid with a camera. Actually, to be fair, I still probably am, uh, just a kid with a camera. [00:04:02] I've just grown quite a lot older and now earn my living from it. But the enthusiasm and the awe and wonder of what you can do with this gadget hasn't diminished at all in the time since I first picked one up at age, sort of, seven or eight or whatever age I was when my grandfather's, uh, Kodak Brownie. [00:04:21] So to be. Chair of Quals And Awards for the oldest photographic association in the world has truly been the honor of a lifetime and when Martin asked me if I'd take that on three years ago, I think I might have been a bit reticent because I wasn't quite sure whether I could deliver what he needed, but hopefully we've gone on to answer the question. [00:04:42] That was an emphatic yes and he, he and the board let me create a program and methods and standards That I think we can be really proud of. , and at the end of the, uh, sorry, at the beginning of the awards yesterday, so it's the end of my tenure. It's my last one as chair. So it is a, it is a sort of a bittersweet moment for me 'cause I've loved it. [00:05:01] Uh, I'm only stepping down because I desperately need to find time to do a load of other things. And now is the time after three years, all the work we've done, uh, you know, on the, on the judging side for me, but particularly on Sarah. Putting in processes and making sure you can get judges when you need them. [00:05:18] , so I'm gonna say thank you to Martin, thank you to the B-I-P-P-A huge thank you to Sarah. And thank you to all the judges who've judged with me, , who've been part of the team. , hopefully over the coming years I'll be able to stand back on the other side of the line and judge alongside the judges that for the past few years I've been sitting in front of while chairing. Honorary Fellowship Award [00:05:38] Paul In The Defender: , the other thing that happened last night, , so forgive me, this is a very personal. It's one of those things where I don't know quite how to do it, but I'm so chuffed I'm going to tell you anyway. I was awarded an Honorary Fellowship of the BIPP. So, if you're not in the industry, I guess it's hard to articulate just how rare these things are and what an honor they are. [00:06:04] There's only 26 or 27 Honorary Fellows in the industry. And as of now, I am also one. I already had my Fellowship. I got that in 2011. , Uh, but I now have an Honorary Fellowship, which is, it's been given to me. It's engraved on the thing is for services to the BIPP, which I rather like it. Uh, so it's just a real privilege to be given that, , I never, you know, just being chair of quals was to be honest, gratitude enough but it is still a lovely thing to be presented with. And that will carry with me for the rest of my life, you know. You keep that title, , and I'm so proud. I was so surprised and pleased last night and so proud now. [00:06:50] But I must also just put out there that, although it is me because I'm the photographer, it's my letters. , actually, this particular one has to be 50 percent Sarah. It's Sarah that coordinated the judges. It's Sarah that managed things and runs me. It's Sarah that manages my time. It's Sarah, and even last night, several of the judges were telling me they were sad to see me step down, but actually, , it's Sarah they're really gonna miss. [00:07:16] So, uh, this goes to Sarah more than anybody else. Uh, so that's a huge, huge thank you. Right, traffic's all braking. Good job I've left lots of gaps, that's nice. Right, so, what was today's topic? Key Ingredient for Great Portraits [00:07:31] Paul In The Defender: Today's topic is, , based on a question that a client asked me the other day. So I was photographing a beautiful family, mother, father, nine month old baby, [00:07:42] The weather? Horribly unkind. It was cold and raining. Your perfect blend of the two types of weather that you don't really want to photograph a baby in. However, we did some studio work and the little girl possibly got a little warm and a little bit grouchy, and so we stepped outside just to see if we could get anything and it turned out, actually, just going out into the cool air, uh, sort of, she, completely cheered up so i think she might just have been a little bit warm or she just didn't like being in the environment of the studio i don't know which but out in the cool air so her mom's holding a huge umbrella over her she sat on one of my our doormats from the studio and scattered the front edge edge with leaves so it looks like the little girl is sitting in this beautiful sort of array of leaves but she's actually sitting on a dry mat in the middle of our lawn and beautiful light and of course when you have water around and Those sort of gloomy bluish tones from a cloudy sky actually the colors pop, you get these oranges and greens that are really interesting. [00:08:45] So we got these incredible pictures and, and afterwards we're sitting chatting and it was the, it was my client, it was the dad said, so what is it? He said, what is it that makes, what's the, the one thing you have to have to make a great portrait? Ah, well, you know, you don't ask someone like me to talk about stuff like that, or at least you don't if you want a short answer. [00:09:05] Uh, so of course the obvious answer, , I'm a lighting specialist. , I love portraiture, but I've always been fascinated by light, its qualities, its colour, the, the shadows that it creates, and I think light obviously is a key ingredient, and I think if you were being Purely pragmatic, you'd have to say the one thing you need to create a great photograph is light. [00:09:31] There has to be light because without it, it's dark, and if it's dark, you've not got a picture. So, that's a really pragmatic answer, but it's a bit dull and a bit obvious. And as I'm a portrait photographer, and during that day, I was taking his baby's portrait, and I've taken their portraits before now. It got me on to think, what is it? [00:09:48] What is that primal? Thing that absolutely makes a portrait. And I think it's a relationship. That is my answer. , it's the relationship you form. Oh man, we're in a rolling roadblock. , that's what's going on. , so there's a slow moving, uh, police car or two. [00:10:06] At the front of, , this particular traffic jam, so we're now travelling at 10 miles an hour. Uh, if we, if we carry on travelling at 10 miles an hour, I'm assuming we won't, but if we do, uh, I'll still be travelling home tomorrow. It's going to take us a while. I'm going to assume up, up ahead, somewhere, they're having to clear an accident, and so all of the traffic, we're sitting straight behind, , a police vehicle. [00:10:28] Anywho, uh, let's talk about the relationship. If you're creating portraits, the one ingredient that you cannot get away without to create a great portrait is a connection with your client. [00:10:43] When you connect with your client, when you create that magic between you, , then something happens and yes, you need beautiful light, of course you do, but in that moment, that split second when they look down the lens and you, uh, fire the shutter, if you have some kind of connection with your client, people who see that picture later will feel it. [00:11:08] It's a really subtle thing, but it's all about what happens when somebody else sees the picture. Because remember when you're holding a camera and you grab that shot. The ultimate consumer of the image isn't you. Yes, all right, you've got the camera, there's that moment, you can show the client if that's your particular workflow, , all of these things, but what you're doing is , you're going to show that image or the image is going to be shown by your client to somebody else. [00:11:34] Normally, that's how it works. [00:11:36] And if you've got that magical connection between you and the person in front of the camera, that connection seems to flow out to someone who views the image later. That's where the magic happens, and you really have to do it fast too. , when people come into our studio, we have an entire workflow that is based around getting our client to relax, getting them to feel comfortable. [00:12:03] And we are starting to create a very temporary but very powerful relationship. It's not, it's not a love affair, but it is that sort of some kind of rapport. Where. You can have a conversation, you can laugh, you can maybe learn a little bit about someone, which is always lovely. And when you do that, when you pick up the camera, you, that sort of momentum of that relationship carries through. [00:12:28] So if you tell 'em to look down the lens, it has a, a magic to it if you're tell, even if you're telling them to look slightly to the side or down, that still has a body language to it that feels comfortable. So for me and the kind of portraiture that I love, it's that. relationship that you build, that connection in the moment you hit the button, and that is the most important thing about a portrait, and it's beautiful. [00:12:53] And I said this to my client, and I really hope he sort of thought, oh, okay, that's a, that's a, you know, useful answer. I don't know whether, , I think he might just be making chit chat, same, because it was, he's the client, and so that's the rapport, right? So instead of me asking the questions of it, he was asking questions, , of me. [00:13:11] Anyway, there you go. Key ingredient other than light is a relationship, the connection with your sitter. Masteringportraitphotography.com Launch [00:13:19] Paul In The Defender: I know this is a short one as I'm pottling along, but I also wanted to take the opportunity in this podcast to formally, as much as, you know, anything is formal with me, to formally launch masteringportraitphotography. [00:13:33] com. Now of course the website has been there for an eternity. It's been there pretty much ever since we launched the book. Actually on the book there might be some news coming, but I'll keep you posted if and when contracts get signed. , But the website's been there, it's had sort of content, but we've really only used it primarily for the podcast as its spiritual home. [00:13:58] Yes, there's lots of articles, there've been tons of articles, , but we've never really used it as our first and foremost focus. [00:14:14] Mastering Portrait Photography is now very much in our viewfinder, if you like, if you like the metaphor, and we are pushing a huge amount of energy and content into it. So every month there will be a long form video. By long form I mean half an hour. Video, uh, talking about something, uh, I think the ones that are up there at the moment, like I said, I'm in the Land Rover, and while I did make some notes, uh, prior to clipping on the microphone, I didn't make all of them, so I think there is how to structure a shoot is on there, uh, I think there is how to work in harsh sunlight in there, , I know the one that's on the editing screens at the moment is five ideas for off camera flash, oh, we're all speeding up again now. [00:14:57] We're So it's about to get a little bit more background noise. They must have rescued whatever vehicle it was. , and so, uh, you get one long form video a month. There will also be an article a month, or every couple of weeks, with a lighting diagram. On top of that, there are the frame, room, whatever you want to call them, mock ups, where they are photorealistic Photoshop files that you can drop your own image into, and it just looks like that's how the image was put on a wall. Why do we do those? Well, originally it was to help sell, , wall art to our clients. Because obviously as a business, I need ways of getting them to visualize the, uh, the wall art that I'd like them to have. And the closer I can get it to photorealistic, the better it is. [00:15:50] Because they'll, they can't touch it. Because. That we haven't made it yet. And the old adage in sales, if they can touch it, they'll buy it. , we can't quite get there, but we can certainly visualize it. So that's really good. , and that's why we built them. I built them for my own team and everything about the website, Mastering Portrait Photography.com is of and for us, I built it or we built it to support us as a business. [00:16:17] The articles, some of it came out of the book, but then much of the rest of it. It's been to help train people, it's been to help train my own team when we've got assistants in, , the room mock ups or the art mock ups are entirely built for us. They were built for us to be able to improve our sales, and that works. [00:16:38] Make no bones about it, they work. You can see them, there's hundreds of them, we're building more all the time, , Oh, this bit's bumpy. The thing about recording in a Land Rover is if the road, the M40, as it is, has a rubbish road surface, which it does at this particular bit, , then it gets a little bit shaky. [00:16:56] You can hear everything rattling around. And so we built them to be photorealistic. We built them for us. There's tons of them, but there's actually a by product which I didn't necessarily anticipate. So while I'm building these things, I drop images into them all the time. I go back to my sort of stock of portfolio images, some of my favorite images, my favorite clients over the years. [00:17:17] And I drop them in, , to create, , thumbnails that when you browse the site you can have a look at. , but actually what I've learned, or I'm learning as I go, is how different styles of image work in different types of frame. So certain images work great big on a wall. You know, I think as photographers We're drawn towards the idea of the Mona Lisa type portrait photograph, or at least I am. [00:17:43] I love a headshot. I love a clean, big, bold, you know, almost as if it was an LP album cover. Uh, I think, you know, Bruce Springsteen or Peter Gabriel, that's I'm sure my age, I suppose, , on an album cover, something like that, I think would be just brilliant. But would my client really put that huge on their wall? [00:18:04] Well, they might if it's Bruce Springsteen or Peter Gabriel. They're unlikely to if it's them. Now, they might if they have an only child and they might if it's a picture of a dog. There's some amazing photographers out there doing pet photography and I can, and certainly when we do it too, you know, I can visualize how one of our dog photographs, for instance, might appear in a big frame on a wall. [00:18:28] I was with a client and an old friend of mine the other day and they had a A picture on the wall. It's one of Randall Ford's pictures. , and I know the family and their dogs and, and, uh, the dad. And I just think I could do exactly that with, uh, his dogs and his family. , something big and bold. A couple of frames lined up across the wall, but on the whole, if you are gonna sell big frames, single big frames, you probably want groups in there. [00:18:56] Now, if you've got clients with huge walls and. You know, a couple of kids, you might be able to put individual headshots into individual frames on the wall, and I do have clients like that, and they look stunning, my oh my, do I love it. Uh, but they're not the norm, they're not the norm. The norm is a normal sized house, with moderate sized walls, and if you put a big frame up on the wall, it's either got to be something like a fine art piece, where, let's say, The couple are silhouetted against the wall, small, but there's a big sky or something, , or a picture of a dog, or a picture of, you know, the two kids, or the whole family. [00:19:35] It's highly likely that they're going to want something full of joy and laughter, because that is something that would be appealing at that size on a wall. Similarly, if you're laying up three frames, you can tell a story across them. You can use a different star a different type of image. You can use individual shots in a different way. [00:19:52] For more information visit www. paulwilkinsonphotography. com , if you put three acrylics on a wall, you can triptych across it, so you have one picture that's spread across the three acrylics, and that could look super creative, uh, really, really interesting way to do it, , and all of this, my understanding of this side of it is increasing all the time, because I'm laying out using these mock ups, so on top of them being brilliant as a sales tool for you and for your clients, they're also a really creative thing to play with, just trying different ideas, And seeing how they look. [00:20:25] So that's the room mockups on the website. There's also, of course, the podcast, this very thing that you're listening to, that's the spiritual home for it. Even if you're listening to this on iTunes or on Spotify or on YouTube. The spiritual home for it is masteringportraitphotography.com. Upcoming Workshops and Events [00:20:43] Paul In The Defender: And then the final section, or the main section is the academy. [00:20:47] And this is now where all of our workshops, , are going to be. So, uh, while I'm on that topic, I'll just reel off the workshops that we have already got, uh, to book in the diary. Now these have got, uh, people have already started booking on them, , we only put them up a week or two ago. Uh, so on January the 20th, January the 20th, we've got an Off Camera Flash Workshop. [00:21:14] Uh, funnily enough, one of the toughest topics to teach, uh, but also one of the most rewarding techniques to learn. , so we did, uh, we are in the process of releasing a video on it that will go on, a long form video that will go onto the website, uh, and that is a deep dive into some ideas of what you can do with off camera flash. [00:21:33] I think people are a bit afraid of it because it's, , a little bit technical, but once you get your head around it and what you can do with it, you can do anything from create really natural, almost available light portraits but with stunning light wherever you are all the way through to theatrical halloween images with smoke machines and all of the paraphernalia and they're all in this video and the workshop on january the 20th is going to cover that ground it's Off Camera Flash we may or may not include some continuous lighting but at the moment the plan is for it to be Off Camera Flash but if the delegates ask to also cover continuous light then we could do Some of that because of course every workshop we run we tune it to the delegates We tell you broadly what the topic is going to be and then through the feedback we get in the Early forms that you submit and we can tune it if you want to [00:22:27] It's the joy of having a studio. I guess we can do anything we want to as long as everybody's happy with that on March the 31st, we have a Mastering Headshots Workshop, so As it says, it's all about headshot. It's all about, uh, the, uh, for me, I think one of the purest, most beautiful forms of portraiture. I love doing headshot. They're my favorite, uh, thing to do. [00:22:51] I think it, I dunno why I, maybe it's 'cause I've always been fascinated with faces and a headshot is simply an excuse to photograph a face. So that's headshots on, uh, April the 14th. So the headshots is March the 31st, April the 14th. We have got dogs and owners. We're photographing dogs with their owners for a day. [00:23:11] , Of course, during that we will take some pictures of the dogs on their own. We will also take some pictures of the owners on their own. But primarily it's targeted at how to photograph dogs in conjunction with their, uh, their owners. Why do we do that? Well, most of our clients would wish to have a shot with the dog. [00:23:32] That's the best shot you can get. , not all, we have plenty of clients that just want the dog photographed, but we also have plenty of clients, one in particular of the day, brilliant, oh man, one of my favorite sessions, Vivienne, who has given me permission to talk about and show the shoots. Vivienne came with her dog Dodie, tiny little West Highland Terrier, who contrary to my Nan's West Highland Terrier that used to bite my toes, this dog was the best behaved dog in the world. [00:23:59] PAULWILKINSONPHOTOGRAPHY. COM , followed her everywhere she went, but also would just wander off and get inquisitive and then immediately return. A beautiful dog, beautiful shots, and she booked us specifically for one thing. She said, I can find people who shoot their dog on their own, I can find plenty of portrait photographers, only one photographer came up who quite openly and on the website said, yeah, we can photograph a dog with their owner, and I do it all the time with the hearing dogs, why wouldn't I? [00:24:25] , I think it's a really lovely thing, and the shots of her. They're off the top of the scale. So that is April the 14th, Dogs and Owners. Uh, and then, this is a completely new thing. On May the 12th and 13th, we we have a two day bootcamp Now what's a bootcamp? Well, basically, it's as much stuff as we can fit in over two days. And we get the chance in the evening to have some food, maybe have a drink, have a chat, be together as a group. , We don't have accommodation at the studio, uh, but we certainly have plenty around us. So that will be, uh, two days, , either at our studio or somewhere local. [00:25:06] , depending on what we decide exactly where it'll be. But it will certainly be within a mile or two of, of where we are based two days. That's two days back to back a maximum of 10 people. So it's a few more than our normal. Uh, workshops, but it'll be pretty intense. We're gonna cover all sorts of ground, , using available light, using studio light, using off camera flash, maybe a bit of post production thrown into the mix, again, depending on what the delegates, the delegates would like to cover. [00:25:34] It's gonna be an absolute blast, cannot wait for that one. It's the first time we've run it, , and it's such a smart idea, it's Sarah's idea to do it. , as always, the smart ideas come from Sarah, uh, and, uh, looking forward to that one. That's May 12th and 13th. And then the final one that's available at the moment, right now, is June the 9th. [00:25:52] We are doing our regular jaunt, uh, we're gonna dance to the weather, see what we get, uh, on location in Oxford. Now this workshop, I think, might be, might be my favourite, because it's just me with a camera, with some people to photograph, on a location. That's it. We don't carry a load of kit, don't carry particularly reflectors and lights, we just go and find locations, find light pools and patches, find stories to tell. [00:26:24] We just go and photograph our models in Oxford on location. So that's on June 9th. And all of these workshops are now home, housed, ha ha, can't even say it, are now located, let's try that, are now located on masteringportraitphotography. com. We've moved everything over because that was always what we were building with the workshops. [00:26:50] , originally it was under Paul Wilkinson Photography, uh, but we always knew, , and had, and had a reasonably openly talked about this, Always knew that we'd be moving it across to Mastering Portrait Photography. 'cause that's the place that's all about learning, all about teaching, all about enjoying and exploring portrait photography. [00:27:10] So if you go to mastering portrait photography.com, there's a, a section called the Academy. So there's all these sections. There's The Visual Vault, that's all of the articles. There's The Podcast, there's, uh, The Resources, which is, , the mockups and , tools, Photoshop downloads and things. And then there is the, uh, Academy. [00:27:31] And this is where you'll find the workshops. Exactly the same booking process as before. Everything's as it was, it's just now hosed, ha ha ha, it's just now located on masteringportraitphotography. com. Now, for the articles and the videos and the mock ups, at the moment the mock ups are 9. 99 each, uh, which is already a bargain, there's a few free ones, just so you can get an idea, uh, so they're about a tenner each, , there's a few backgrounds, I'm working on building more backgrounds as I need them, but mostly it's the mock ups. [00:28:02] So they're a tenner, which is a bargain, you can create them, you can put them in magazines, you can use them on your website. It just shows your prospective or your existing clients how their images might look. A tenner. Bargain. However, there's a bigger bargain. I suddenly sound like a salesman. So sorry, it's because I'm driving. [00:28:21] And I want to give you not one, but two bargains. It sounds like that. Anyway, if you become a subscriber of Mastering Portrait Photography, you get access to the videos. , and you get access to the downloads. And you get access, well, to everything we put on there, except the workshops. We charge separately for those. [00:28:39] But you get access to all of the resources for 6. 99 a month, which is an even bigger bargain. So even if you only want to download a few of the room mock ups, it's still better to keep a subscription going at 6. 99 a month. It's less than an expensive cup of coffee. And, uh, we will keep the mock ups coming, we will keep the articles coming, we will keep the videos coming, so you'll always have value for money for your 6.99. If you're feeling a bit more, you know, a bit, you have a bit more conviction, then it's 69 quid, or 69. 99 a year, so that's 12 months for the price of 10. Uh, 10 percent saving, or whatever that is, 2 out of 12. Is it a 10? Yeah, it's a 10 percent saving. Is it? No, it's not. It's, I don't know what it is. It's two twelfths. [00:29:25] There you go. It's one sixth. No! Which is a great saving. My maths isn't good enough, uh, while I'm driving. I can't concentrate. I'm concentrating on the road, as I should be, by the way. Uh, so it's 6. 99 a month, , or 69. 99 per year. So head over to masteringportraitphotography. com, , and we promise, we promise we'll make it worth your while. [00:29:48] Oh, sorry, all of our members also. Uh, you get access to our Facebook community. Which is hidden and private. You can't get onto it any other way. , only people who are part of our community can be in there. And that way people can ask for critiques. People can ask for advice and tips is where we put discount codes for things. [00:30:07] , like software where we have, uh, access to discounts from suppliers, those kinds of things. They all go onto the Facebook community. I know a few of you aren't on Facebook, and if I'm honest, it's not my favorite thing. Because I'm just a dopamine idiot when it comes to social media. Once I'm on it, I can't get off it. [00:30:26] , however, it's the best way to do this to be, so you don't have to log into multiple places to find information. It's on our Facebook community, uh, and most of us have a Facebook account. So you see the, , the alerts come up when things, uh, are uploaded. So that is masteringportraitphotography. com. If you want to find the workshops, Head across there and go to the academy. [00:30:47] You can Google Mastering Portrait Photography Academy or mastering portrait photography workshops. , they're a little bit lower down the rankings at the moment because obviously I've spent my entire life saying just Google Paul Wilkinson Photography workshops and everyone heads over there. So, uh, you might just have to scroll down, uh, one or two line items and we'll be there. [00:31:05] Uh, that will change more and more of you. Uh, search for it and click on the link. So search for mastering portrait photography workshops or Mastering Portrait Photography Academy and you will. Find us. Conclusion and Final Thoughts [00:31:15] Paul In The Defender: And that's it for me. The traffic is free flowing. There's cars going everywhere. The light is dimming. [00:31:20] They're salting the roads. They must be expecting some cold weather. It's a beautiful, beautiful afternoon. It's been a wonderful evening of celebrating photography. I am thrilled, thrilled to bits that I've rounded off my three years with setting up the most incredible monthly photo competition and also, of course, the surprise and honor. [00:31:46] So on that happy note, I hope you're all well, I hope things are treating you nicely, and until next time, whatever else, be kind to yourself. Take care. P. S. Sorry if this sounds a bit shouty, but when you're driving a Land Rover, it's really loud, and I forget that although I'm mic'd up, or I forget rather that because I'm mic'd up, it might sound weirdly, like I'm simply yelling! [00:32:27] That's because I'm traveling at Sixty mile an hour in a Land Rover Defender, so apologies if I'm shouting. Be kind to yourself. Take care. Bye.

FREEDOM - LIBERTY - HAPPINESS SUPPORT DOC MALIK To make sure you don't miss any episodes please subscribe to either: The paid Spotify subscription here: ⁠https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/docmalik/subscribe The paid Substack subscription here: ⁠https://docmalik.substack.com/subscribe You can GIFT a Substack subscription to a family or friend here: ⁠GIFT ABOUT THIS CONVERSATION: I want to thank Chris Connolly for making this podcast happen. Rachel has a First-Class Honours degree in Biological Sciences, specialising in Physiology from the University of Birmingham. She graduated from the College of Homeopathy, London, in 1997 and was in private practice as a homeopath until 2012. Rachel has lectured in homeopathy and medical sciences at various colleges in the UK and overseas. She held the post of Research Consultant for the Society of Homeopaths from 2008-2012 and was awarded an Honorary Fellowship in 2013 to acknowledge her outstanding contribution to Homeopathy. Rachel is currently the Chief Executive of the Homeopathy Research Institute (HRI), a UK-based charity dedicated to promoting high-quality research in homeopathy at an international level. The charity was founded by physicist Dr Alexander Tournier, who previously worked as an independent researcher for Cancer Research UK, conducting interdisciplinary research at the boundaries between mathematics, physics, and biology. In this conversation, we discuss homeopathy, particularly dispelling certain misconceptions, such as the fact that homeopathy is Evidence-Based. I hope you enjoy the conversation. Much love Ahmad x Links Website Homeopathy Research Instiutute IMPORTANT INFORMATION AFFILIATE CODES Hunter & Gather Foods ⁠Hunter & Gather Foods Use DOCHG to get 10% OFF your purchase with Hunter & Gather Foods. IMPORTANT NOTICE Following my cancellation for standing up for medical ethics and freedom, my surgical career has been ruined. I am now totally dependent on the support of my listeners, YOU. If you value my podcasts, please support the show so that I can continue to speak up by choosing one or both of the following options - ⁠Buy me a coffee⁠ If you want to make a one-off donation. Join my Substack To access additional content, you can upgrade to paid from just £5.50 a month Doc Malik Merch Store⁠ Check out my amazing freedom merch To sponsor the Doc Malik Podcast contact us at ⁠hello@docmalik.com⁠

Welcome to Building Brand You™, the podcast that helps you accelerate your success by unlocking your greatest asset – you.   KEY TAKEAWAYS: The liminal space lies between the ‘no longer' and the ‘not yet' - it's a space of ambiguity and uncertainty and, at the same time, of discovery, creativity and exploration.    Different mentors will bring the lens of their own superpower so curate a range of advisors/mentors and be laser-sighted on what piece of advice you want from any given individual.   Like a fruit salad, it's actually the mix which is what really makes it and everyone's mix will be different.   There is just a different mode of life, one that is more free and full of discovery and validation, but just in a very, very different way from a career.     RESOURCES MENTIONED: Changing Gear by Mark Dando; https://www.amazon.co.uk/Changing-Gears-Mark-Dando/dp/1800421907   The Marketing Society - Community: The Marketing Industry Sprintathon 2024 | England https://www.marketingsociety.com/event/community-marketing-industry-sprintathon-2024-england     ABOUT OUR GUEST: Mark is an Executive level marketer of 25 years across Direct Line Group, HSBC and Mars, now pursuing a portfolio career. Mark now combines Executive coaching with a number of non-exec, advisory and Trustee roles with Accenture, the Marketing Society, Saracens Rugby, HMRC, The Institute for Customer Services, The UK Sepsis Trust, Save the Children, Nottingham University Business School, and OnSide Mark founded the “Sprintathon” in 2016 which is a mass-relay marathon charity event that has so far raised £900k for Stand Up To Cancer to beat cancer faster.  Mark was recognised as the Marketing Society Leader of the Year in 2018 and awarded an Honorary Fellowship in 2023.  CONNECT WITH MARK EVANS: Email: markevans123456@googlemail.com LinkedIn: linkedin.com/in/markevans- Podcast: https://open.spotify.com/show/3zajAP9qA031znCniJnHuV   ABOUT KYM HAMER: Kym Hamer is an international leadership, visibility and impact coach, a personal branding expert and serial entrepreneur, and the creator of Building Brand You™, a methodology helping organisations, teams, and individuals to build visibility and reputational rigor as essential building blocks for delivering sustained business value. In other words, accelerating results by unlocking your greatest asset - YOU! In 2020, just one year after launching her first business, she was nominated by Thinkers360 as one of the Top 100 Women B2B Leadership influencers and is currently in the Top 25 Personal Branding and Top 12 Marketing Influencers in the world. For 4 years running Kym has also been one of Thinkers360's Top 10 Thought Leaders on Entrepreneurship and in 2023, was recognised as one of their Top Voices for 2023 globally. Kym is the Founder & CEO of Artemis Futures International, a Founding Board Member of the Customer Experience & Service Association Middle East, and co-founder of CXSA Group Ltd.  She has been part of the faculty with Homeward Bound Projects, a global initiative reaching 1.8 billion people, equipping women and non-binary people with a STEMM background to lead conversations for a sustainable future. She voyaged to Antarctica in 2023 for 19 nights delivering the immersive component of the HB programme for more than 170 women, and is currently Faculty Lead for Homeward Bound's 8th leadership cohort. In between all of these things, you'll find her curled up in a corner with her nose in a book.     Building Brand You™: JOIN the BBY Facebook Group - https://www.facebook.com/groups/buildingbrandyou SUBSCRIBE to the BBY Podcast on: (Apple) - https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/building-brand-you/id1567407273 (Spotify) - https://open.spotify.com/show/4Ho26pAQ5uJ9h0dGNicCIq SIGN UP to The BBY Bookshelf - https://bit.ly/BBYBookshelf   CONNECT WITH KYM HAMER: LinkedIn - https://linkedin.com/in/kymhamer/ Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/kymhamerartemis/ Facebook - https://www.facebook.com/kymhamerartemis/ TikTok - https://www.tiktok.com/@kymhamer Thinkers360 - https://bit.ly/thinkers360-kymhamer-BBY Find out about BBY Coaching - https://calendly.com/kymhamer/bbychat/     HOSTED BY: Kym Hamer   DISCLAIMER: The views, information, or opinions expressed during the Building Brand You™ podcast series are solely those of the individuals involved. They do not necessarily represent any other entities, agencies, organisations, or companies. Building Brand You™ is not responsible and does not verify the accuracy of any of the information in the podcast available for listening on this site. The primary purpose of this podcast is to educate and inform. This podcast does not constitute legal advice or services.

In this episode, Jane talks with Dr Ananta Dave, Chief Medical Officer of the Black Country Integrated Care Board. Ananta is a Consultant Child & Adolescent Psychiatrist by background and closely involved in undergraduate and post graduate medical education. Ananta was awarded Honorary Fellowship of the Royal College of Psychiatrists (RCPsych) in July 2023 in recognition of her work in psychiatry and mental health. Ananta shares her personal experiences as an international medical graduate and a new immigrant in the UK, highlighting challenges including discrimination and cultural differences. Jane and Ananta also discuss the issue of discrimination and inequality in child protection decision-making, particularly towards parents from diverse backgrounds.  Date of episode recording: 2024-04-23T00:00:00Z Duration: 00:37:48 Language of episode: English Presenter:Professor Dame Jane Dacre Guests: Dr Ananta Dave Producer: Matt Aucott 

If there's a healing modality that can bring up some polarizing opinions… it's homeopathy. Some say it's incredibly effective (even where all else fails), some scoff it off as nothing but placebo. Others don't understand what it is at all, or how to use it . . .So today- we've got an incredible expert on the show.  Rachel Roberts is the Chief Executive at the Homeopathy Research Institute, and she's separating fact from fiction in today's episode.Personally,  I've been using homeopathy  since I was a kid, and it's something I continue to use today in conjunction in with other modalities (which is a big opinion I'll get into in this episode).I believe it to be an incredibly useful tool in our toolbox, and for those who might not know what it is, or are feeling skeptical- today's episode is definitely worth a listen.We're Covering: Rachel's explanation of what homeopathy ishow she started as a major skeptic, and how that changed (*hint- the Royal Family played a part) not just placebo - what the evidence says known conditions that have more evidence Rachel's opinion on “no side effects” when it comes to homeopathy (it's not what you think!)challenges when it comes to homeopathic research homeopathy for agriculture and an alternative to pesticides damaging headlines Rachel's feelgood thing About RachelRachel has a First-Class Honours degree in Biological Sciences specialising in Physiology from the University of Birmingham. She graduated from the College of Homeopathy, London in 1997 and was in private practice as a homeopath until 2012. Rachel has lectured in homeopathy and medical sciences at various colleges in the UK and overseas. She held the post of Research Consultant for the Society of Homeopaths from 2008-2012 and was awarded an Honorary Fellowship in 2013 to acknowledge her outstanding contribution to Homeopathy. Rachel joined the HRI part-time in 2010 and has worked for the Institute on a full-time basis since 2012. In 2018 Rachel was awarded an Honorary Fellowship by the Faculty of Homeopathy for her highly regarded work in the field of homeopathic research.Resources:https://www.findahomeopath.org https://wew.cash.cahttps://www.hri-research.org/https://homeopathycoalition.cahttps://cphq.cahttps://canadiansforhomeopathy.comhttps://homeopathycanada.com/The Key Moments in this episode are:00:01:30 - my experience with homeopathy 00:04:55 - Rachel's explanation of homeopathy 00:010:55 - when Rachel's skepticism changed00:15:55- the evidence 00:22:00 - lack of patents and struggles when it comes to research00:28:00 - side effects00:33:00 -  homeopathy for offsetting chemo side effects 00:39:00 -  Arnica post surgery 00:41:10 - Rachel's Mom's Cat Story 00:46:00 - homeopathy for plants and fish 00:56:55 - a  damaging headline 01:02:00  - Rachel's feelgood thing 

We kickstart Season 18 with Vanessa Winship, an artist and freelance photographer renowned for her poignant exploration of humanity, land, and history. From marginalized communities to migration, her lens unveils the fragility of human and non-human landscapes. Stay tuned for an enlightening episode with host Payal Nayar, as we delve into Vanessa's evocative work and it's profound impact on our understanding of the world.Step into the world of Vanessa Winship, a trailblazer whose lens has redefined the art of photography. With a distinguished career adorned with accolades such as two World Press Photo prizes and the prestigious Henri Cartier Bresson Foundation Prize, Vanessa's work stands as a testament to her unparalleled talent.From the revered halls of Rencontres d'Arles to the iconic galleries of the Barbican Art Gallery, Vanessa's exhibitions have mesmerized audiences worldwide. Her mid-career surveys at Fundación MAPFRE, Madrid, and the Barbican Art Gallery, London, have showcased her profound impact on the art world.In 2018, Vanessa was honored with an Honorary Fellowship from The Royal Photographic Society, recognizing her exceptional contributions to the field. Her photographs grace esteemed collections across the globe, including the Henri Cartier Bresson Foundation and Tate Britain.Apple Podcasts: https://buff.ly/2Vf8vv8⠀Spotify: https://buff.ly/2Vf8uHA⠀Google Podcasts:https://buff.ly/2Vds6LX⠀-Original music credit: Rish Sharma.His music is available on Spotify, Apple Music, YouTube and other streaming platforms.-October2019 voicesandmore Pte Ltd All rights reservedBeyond her artistic endeavors, Vanessa's collaborations with her partner, George Georgiou, as artists in residence in locations like Sardinia and Sete, France, reflect her commitment to pushing boundaries and exploring new frontiers in visual storytelling.Join us as we delve into the extraordinary achievements and creative brilliance of Vanessa Winship in an upcoming episode with our host, Payal Nayar. Become a member at https://plus.acast.com/s/melting-pot. https://plus.acast.com/s/melting-pot. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

In an in-depth interview, Devin Patrick Hughes speaks with former ITN journalist, ClassicFM host, and biographer John Suchet discusses his transition from journalism to classical music as a career because of his connection to Tchaikovsky's music. He shares his initial love for Tchaikovsky's melodies, developing an understanding of music through learning jazz trombone, and his eventual passion for writing about classical music composers. John touches upon Tchaikovsky's struggle with his identity and homosexuality, and how it influenced his symphonic works. Additionally, he considers the debate about Tchaikovsky's dubious death and the bizarre relationship that Tchaikovsky had with Nadezhda von Meck, his best-known patroness. John believes his approach to understanding music is through the man and not the music, and shares never before heard anecdotes about Tchaikovsky's relationships with other men.  00:00 Introduction and Early Life 00:16 Transition into Classical Music 00:34 Tchaikovsky's Early Musical Journey 01:49 Tchaikovsky's Career in Journalism 02:57 Tchaikovsky's Love for Classical Music 03:43 Tchaikovsky's Writing Career 04:13 Tchaikovsky's Love for Other Composers 05:47 Tchaikovsky's Self Doubt 08:13 Tchaikovsky's Struggles with Homosexuality 10:27 Tchaikovsky's Marriage and its Impact 11:57 Tchaikovsky's Influence and Legacy 28:28 Tchaikovsky's Death and its Controversy 38:47 Conclusion: Tchaikovsky's Enduring Impact As the host of The Classic FM Concert with John Suchet for 12 years, John Suchet is a household voice in classical music and broadcasting. Before his career at Classic FM, John was celebrated as one of the nation's foremost reporters and newscasters. At ITN, he covered pivotal global events such as the Iranian Revolution, the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan, and the Philippines Revolution. He has earned accolades including Television Reporter of the Year and Television Newscaster of the Year. In 2008, he received the Lifetime Achievement Award from the Royal Television Society, marking his remarkable career spanning nearly four decades in television news. John's lifelong passion for classical music, particularly the works of Beethoven, has been a driving force in his life. He authored seven books focusing on the legendary composer, with his latest publication, a special 250th anniversary edition of "Beethoven — The Man Revealed," released in 2020. His dedication to promoting classical music earned him prestigious honors such as an Honorary Doctorate from the University of Dundee and an Honorary Fellowship from the Royal Academy of Music. He has also authored books on Verdi, the Strausses, Mozart, and Tchaikovsky, the Man Revealed, which is the subject of today's discussion. Thank you for joining us on One Symphony. Thanks to John Suchet for sharing his wealth of knowledge. You can find more info at JohnSuchet.co.uk  and pick up a copy of Tchaikovsky The Man Reveals, and other books by great composers of John's wherever you get your books. Musical selections on this episode today include Tchaikovsky's 4th Symphony by the Berlin Phil, Bruckner's Seventh Symphony by Vienna Phil and Herbert von Karajan,, Strauss's Blue Danube Waltz by the Vienna Phil and Willi Boskovsky, Sugar Rum Cherry (Dance of the Sugar Plum Fairy from Three Suites by Duke Ellington, Tchaikovsky's First String Quartet by the Emerson String Quartet, and the Nutcracker by the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra. You can always find more info at OneSymphony.org including a virtual tip jar if you'd like to support the show. Please feel free to rate, review, or share the show! Until next time, thank you for being part of the music! https://www.listennotes.com/podcasts/one-symphony-with-devin-patrick-hughes-_UBbpoivcA3/ https://www.audible.com/pd/One-Symphony-with-Devin-Patrick-Hughes-Podcast/B08K57VY49      

Georgina Aasgaard Cellist and Music and Health Practitioner   Georgina Aasgaard is a Liverpool based Cellist and Music and Health practitioner who has a passion for bringing Music from the concert platform to challenging and more intimate environments. She has 20 years of experience delivering music interventions in a broad range of health and social settings such as hospitals, mental health units, prisons, homes for the elderly as well as community centres for refugees and the homeless. Her practice includes 15-year partnerships with the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra, Mersey Care NHS Foundation Trust, Alder Hey NHS Foundation Trust and Live Music Now. She has also aworked for 10 years with DadaFest and Drake Music, engaging with people with disabilities through music making and technology . As a musician in residence, she has led innovative and groundbreaking programmes which include both one to one interaction on intensive care units and group work in mental health units. She has co-created recovery courses, co-produced performances, exploring skills such as improvisation, composition, songwriting, music technology, and including employability opportunities. Her activities have been measured through co-evaluation methods and continuous contact with patients and service users.  These collaborations have enabled her to draw on her experiences to create context specific training and mentoring programmes. She is currently developing a toolkit for musicians working in healthcare, informed by her collaborative work over the years and her research activities. Georgina was awarded a Pre-doctoral Local Authority Fellowship by the NIHR, as a  Director of Training and Development Research for Live Music Now, working in partnership with the University of Liverpool to investigate the influence of non-clinical music interventions on mental health.   She currently works in close collaboration with The Liverpool Centre for Health, Art, Society and Environment (CHASE) at the University of Liverpool aiming to foster critical inquiry, dialogue and creativity to build new knowledge about enabling creative communities through music collaboration and cross-sector partnerships. As part of this collaboration, she has been granted a new Community Innovation Practitioner (CIP) award funded by the AHRC to investigate how collaborations between academics and partners from across different sectors can work to benefit health and wellbeing.   Awards and Honorary Fellowship ·         05/07/2022: Festival of Learning Awards: Winner of the President's Award. Music and Mental Health Programme at the Life Rooms, Royal Liverpool Philharmonic, Lead musician ·         01/02/2021: Liverpool City Region Culture and Creativity Awards: Winner of the Impact Award on Health and Wellbeing Royal Liverpool Philharmonic, Lead Musician ·         01/05/2019: Winner of the Merseyside Woman of the Year in the category of Arts, Culture and Media ·         01/03/2016: NHS Award in Health and Care - Certificate of Recognition for Commitment to learning in Health and Care ·         01/09/2011: University of Liverpool Honorary Fellowship, Music and Wellbeing ·         01/09/2010: NHS Positive achievement Award in Mental Health    

In this episode Lucy Brazier OBE, CEO of Marcham Publishing talks to us about Time Management, her early Corporate Career & Entrepreneurial Journey speaking and training at over 650 Events, in more than 50 countries. As well as: Lucy's experience with imposter syndrome & her recommendations for navigating it The importance of understanding the value of assistants in business Burnout & how to avoid / navigate it The impact of effective time management on reducing stress and feeling more in control Lucy's new book the Modern Day Assistant & how you can win a signed copy This episode is for: → Busy Executive Support Professionals, Executives and Entrepreneurs that want to hear more about Lucy Brazier's career journey to becoming one of the world's leading authorities on the administrative profession.  → Discover what she does to be more productive without burning out.  → As well as find out more about how her relationship with time has evolved over the course of her successful publishing career & business journey. Join us as we uncover valuable insights and discuss the tips, tools and strategies you can use to navigate the complex world of work, life, mental health and wellbeing. ⏰ It's your Time! Listen until the end as we have an exciting giveaway for you!  Win a signed copy of Lucy's book - Q. What's the national emblem for the most memorable country Lucy has spoken in (she tells you what it is at the end of our interview). Post your answers on social media, this is both of us on X (Formerly Twitter) @lucybrazier @sbdtraining or tag us in a post over on Linkedin.  I can't wait to hear what you take away from this episode, your ah has & questions. Be sure to connect with me on Linkedin or Instagram so that we can continue the conversation there!    About Lucy Brazier OBE Lucy Brazier is one of the world's leading authorities on the administrative profession.  She is the CEO of Marcham Publishing, a global force synonymous with world-class conferences and training, including Executive Support LIVE and Modern-Day Assistant, and home of Executive Support Magazine, the gold standard of training in print for administrative professionals. Author of ‘The Modern-Day Assistant: Build Your Influence and Boost Your Potential', Lucy is passionate about ensuring the Assistant role is truly recognised as a career and not just a job and is dedicated to supporting the development of both senior and aspiring administrative professionals. Her formidable training expertise and speaking style have given her opportunities to train, present and emcee events in over 50 countries at more than 650 events, including chairing the 2015 World Administrators Summit in Papua New Guinea and co-facilitating every World Administrators Summit since. Lucy has keynoted at almost every major conference for Assistants in the world.   In 2021, Lucy was awarded an OBE (Officer of the British Empire) from the Queen for services to office professionals. She has also received an Honorary Fellowship to the Institute of Administrative Management – one of the oldest management institutes in the world, having inspired professional business managers and administrators since 1915 – in recognition of her work to drive the profession forward.  Links: Website: https://executivesupportmedia.com/ Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/lucybrazier/ Buy her Book: The Modern-Day Assistant   ………………………..   All the Links you need: Time Management for Entrepreneurs & Professionals Download a free chapter: https://bit.ly/downloadfreechapternow   Buy it on Amazon (Available worldwide) Buy it here: https://bit.ly/BUYYOURCOPY   Success by Design Training Social Media Links: Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/abigailrbarnes/ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/successbydesigntraining/ Facebook:https://www.facebook.com/successbdtraining Twitter: https://twitter.com/sbdtraining YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@successbydesigntraining   About Abigail Barnes: Abigail Barnes is the founder & CEO of Success by Design Training, an award-winning entrepreneur, author, speaker, and corporate trainer on time management and productive wellbeing. She is a qualified coach and creator of the renowned 888 Formula. In February 2012 at the age of 32 Abigail had a stroke on a work business trip to Boston USA. This was her wakeup call; time is precious and we don't have any to waste! Her Organisation Success by Design Training is on a mission to share the 888 Formula with one million people by 2025. Abigail understands human motivation and uses her own near-death experience as a catalyst for change, to inspire, empower and teach others how to maximise their time. She holds a BA Hons Degree in Business & Marketing Management, a Professional Postgraduate Diploma in Marketing, DipM ACIM, a certificate in Neuroscience Professional Development, approved by British Psychological Society and is a qualified coach, approved by the Association for Coaching and the Institute of Leadership & Management, Portsmouth University Business School. Website: www.successbydesigntraining.com Email: enquiries@successbydesigntraining.com Audio Credit: Keith Hare   ………………………..   Abigail Barnes Social Media Links: Instagram: instagram.com/iamabigailbarnes YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@iamabigailbarnes Tik Tok: https://www.tiktok.com/@iamabigailbarnes

Ever wondered how homeopathy research is bridging the gap between skeptics and believers?   Get ready for an exhilarating episode featuring the remarkable Rachael Roberts from the Homeopathic Research Institute. Join us as we explore the fascinating field of homeopathic research and discover the groundbreaking initiatives led by the Institute to elevate the status of homeopathy through robust scientific exploration. Rachael and her team are on a mission to revolutionize the perception of homeopathy by championing top-tier research and effectively conveying the compelling evidence behind this holistic approach to health. Don't miss this captivating discussion as we uncover the HRI's pivotal role in advancing high-quality research and solidifying the foundation of homeopathy in the modern world.   Episode Highlights: 06:23 - Skepticism towards anti-homeopathy campaigners 09:17 - Accepting alternative approaches to science 12:34 - Promoting high quality homeopathy research 15:21 - Integrating science and homeopathy 18:31 - Funding from a single individual 23:03 - Normal donations and their impact 24:35 - Research paper funding 29:14 - Top homeopathic research studies 35:08 - Individualized homeopathic treatment efficacy 41:12 - Convincing AHCs through research 44:07 - The cost of conducting trials 47:49 - Dealing with online backlash 50:30 - Shifting Paradigms in Science 55:19 - Getting big celebrities involved   About my guest: Rachel has a first-class degree in Biological Sciences specialising in Physiology from the University of Birmingham. She graduated from the College of Homeopathy, London in 1997 and was in private practice as a homeopath until 2012. Rachel has lectured in homeopathy and medical sciences at various colleges in the UK and overseas. She held the post of Research Consultant for the Society of Homeopaths from 2008-2012 and was awarded an Honorary Fellowship in 2013 to acknowledge her outstanding contribution to Homeopathy. Rachel joined the HRI part-time in 2010 and has worked for the Institute on a full-time basis since 2012. In 2018 Rachel was awarded an Honorary Fellowship by the Faculty of Homeopathy for her highly regarded work in the field of homeopathic research, and in 2021 she, and HRI, were jointly awarded the Dr Peter Fisher Memorial Award from the National Center for Homeopathy USA in acknowledgment of a substantial contribution to research.   Find out more about Rachel Website: https://www.hri-research.org/ Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/rachel-roberts-60735160/ Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/rachelrobertshri/   Support the Homeopathy Hangout Podcast by making a $5 once-off donation at https://www.buymeacoffee.com/hangout   Join my Homeopathy Hangout Podcast Facebook community here: https://www.facebook.com/groups/HelloHomies   Follow me on Instagram https://www.instagram.com/eugeniekrugerhomeopathy/   Here is the link to my free 30-minute Homeopathy@Home online course: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vqBUpxO4pZQ&t=438s   Upon completion of the course - and if you live in Australia - you can join my Facebook group for free acute advice (you'll need to answer a couple of questions about the course upon request to join): www.facebook.com/groups/eughom

Jeannette meets Rosaleen Moriarty-Simmonds OBE, a remarkable individual with an inspiring story. Born with phocomelia caused by the drug thalidomide, Rosaleen defied the odds and became a successful businesswoman, equality campaigner, volunteer, author, artist, and inspirational speaker. Rosie joins the show this week to share her journey from overcoming societal barriers and discrimination to finding her passion in disability equality training and becoming a renowned mouth painting artist. KEY TAKEAWAYS Rosie's parents played a crucial role in her upbringing, providing support and encouragement for her to be as independent as possible despite her physical disabilities. Rosie faced numerous challenges and rejections in her career, but her determination and drive helped her overcome them and achieve success. Rosie has been actively involved in disability equality training and advocacy, working to raise awareness and improve accessibility for disabled individuals. Rosie's journey as a mother has been a significant part of her life, defying societal expectations and proving that disabled individuals can have fulfilling family lives. BEST MOMENTS "If I can succeed in it, then the doors should be open for other disabled people as well." "I need to do something that I'm passionate about." "You really should write a book." "It's either all or nothing." This is the perfect time to get focused on what YOU want to really achieve in your business, career, and life. It's never too late to be BRAVE and BOLD and unlock your inner BRILLIANCE. If you'd like to jump on a free mentoring session just DM Jeannette at info@jeannettelinfootassociates.com or sign up via Jeannette's linktree https://linktr.ee/JLinfoot VALUABLE RESOURCES Brave, Bold, Brilliant podcast series - https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/brave-bold-brilliant-podcast/id1524278970       ABOUT THE GUEST Rosaleen (Rosie) Moriarty-Simmonds OBE:A member of many disability and other organisations, Rosie is also a Vice President of the Cardiff Business Club, and protagonist for the Thalidomide Memorial - dedicated in June 2016, which marks the lives and achievements of Thalidomide Impaired people globally.   She is also, Patron of Flamingo Chicks, [national inclusive dance schools where all youngsters can spread their wings.  It gives disabled children the opportunity to explore movement and have fun alongside their non-disabled friends].  Patron of Flat Spaces, [a project providing fully accessible holiday bungalows with state-of-the-art facilities, all around the UK]. and  Chairperson of the Equality, Diversity and Inclusion Advisory Board for Cardiff University. Rosie graduated from Cardiff University in 1985 with a degree in Psychology, then worked as an Executive Officer in the Civil Service for seven years, before establishing the RMS Disability Issues Consultancy in 1995.  In June 2007, Rosie completed and published her autobiography - Four Fingers and Thirteen Toes - It was re-published in 2009.  Happily married to Stephen with one son [James], Rosie's hobbies are theatre and concert going, and photography. After a lifetime of Campaigning for Rights and Equality for Disabled People, Rosie was awarded an OBE in the 2015 Queen's New Years Honours List.  She also received an Honorary Fellowship from Cardiff University in July 2017, for "Her Outstanding Work and contribution to the Equality and Rights of Disabled People".  In December 2018, Rosie received an Honorary Doctorate and Honorary Fellowship from Swansea University, again for her equality work. Rosie was the High Sheriff of South Glamorgan from April 2022-2023. ABOUT THE HOST Jeannette Linfoot is a highly regarded senior executive, property investor, board advisor, and business mentor with over 25 years of global professional business experience across the travel, leisure, hospitality, and property sectors. Having bought, ran, and sold businesses all over the world, Jeannette now has a portfolio of her own businesses and also advises and mentors other business leaders to drive forward their strategies as well as their own personal development. Jeannette is a down-to-earth leader, a passionate champion for diversity & inclusion, and a huge advocate of nurturing talent so every person can unleash their full potential and live their dreams.  CONTACT THE HOST Jeannette's linktree - https://linktr.ee/JLinfoot https://www.jeannettelinfootassociates.com/ YOUTUBE - https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCtsU57ZGoPhm55_X0qF16_Q LinkedIn - https://uk.linkedin.com/in/jeannettelinfoot Facebook - https://uk.linkedin.com/in/jeannettelinfoot Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/jeannette.linfoot/ Email - info@jeannettelinfootassociates.com Podcast Description Jeannette Linfoot talks to incredible people about their experiences of being Brave, Bold & Brilliant, which have allowed them to unleash their full potential in business, their careers, and life in general. From the boardroom tables of ‘big' international businesses to the dining room tables of entrepreneurial start-ups, how to overcome challenges, embrace opportunities and take risks, whilst staying ‘true' to yourself is the order of the day. LinkedIn - https://uk.linkedin.com/in/jeannettelinfoot Facebook - https://uk.linkedin.com/in/jeannettelinfoot Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/jeannette.linfoot/ Email - info@jeannettelinfootassociates.com Jeannette Linfoot is a highly regarded senior executive, property investor, board advisor, and business mentor with over 25 years of global professional business experience across the travel, leisure, hospitality, and property sectors. Having bought, ran, and sold businesses all over the world, Jeannette now has a portfolio of her own businesses and also advises and mentors other business leaders to drive forward their strategies as well as their own personal development. Jeannette is a down-to-earth leader, a passionate champion for diversity & inclusion, and a huge advocate of nurturing talent so every person can unleash their full potential and live their dreams. Travel, Bold, Brilliant, business, growth, scale, marketing, investment, investing, entrepreneurship, coach, consultant, mindset, six figures, seven figures, travel, industry, ROI, B2B, inspirational: https://linktr.ee/JLinfootThis show was brought to you by Progressive Media

He's back! Radio 1 Presenter, I'm a Celeb runner-up and University of Sunderland graduate Jordan North returns to the North East to discuss his journey so far and recent Honorary Fellowship.

One of the greatest contemporary photographers and directors of our generation, Nadav Kander receives us in his London studio. Nadav has received an Honorary Fellowship from the Royal Photographic Society and won the Prix Pictet award for his striking images of China's Yangtze River. In 2009, he had 52 full colour portraits published in one issue of The New York Times Magazine surrounding US President Barack Obama. There is a certain melancholic beauty, an uncanniness, in Nadav's work that I've always admired. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Dr Anne-Marie Imafidon MBE is a prodigy in every sense of the word. Aged 11, she was the youngest girl ever to pass A-level computing, and was just 20 years old when she received her Master's Degree in Mathematics and Computer Science from the University of Oxford. Since then, she has forged an enviable CV, including positions at Goldman Sachs, Hewlett-Packard and Deutsche Bank. Then there are the Honorary Doctorates from Open University, Glasgow Caledonian University, Kent University, Bristol University & Coventry University and an Honorary Fellowship at Keble College, Oxford. It is this wealth of experience and pioneering spirit that led her to co-found the Stemettes, an award-winning social initiative dedicated to inspiring and promoting the next generation of young women in the STEM sectors. Since its inception 9 years ago, it has exposed almost 60,000 young people across Europe to Anne-Marie's vision for a more diverse and balanced science and tech community. In 2022 she released her new book She's in CTRL, a guidebook for women to take back tech. With thanks for your support for 5x15 online! Learn more about 5x15 events: 5x15stories.com Twitter: www.twitter.com/5x15stories Facebook: www.facebook.com/5x15stories Instagram: www.instagram.com/5x15stories

Dr. Laura is joined by the brilliant Dr. Shawna Pandya - a Canadian physician, aquanaut, scientist-astronaut candidate with the International Institute for Astronautical Sciences, VP of Immersive Medicine with Luxsonic Technologies, and Director of IIAS' Space Medicine Group. Dr. Pandya talks about the many facets of her career and what drives her to success and continued exploration.It is tempting to simply call Dr. Shawna Pandya superhuman and assume she is on a level of her own, but Dr. Laura delves into the very human side of what inspired Dr. Pandya to pursue space medicine, and what continues to keep her growing. Dr. Pandya talks about resilience and the ability to see failure as growth. She has wrestled with her own perceived failures and learned how perspective shifts things for the better. Dr. Pandya explains what being an aquanaut is, her record for days living under the sea, the importance of mentorship and role models in life, and who her own mentors are. From studying to be a neurosurgeon to testing the first commercial spacesuit in zero gravity, Dr. Pandya shares with Dr. Laura how she navigates her extraordinary life.“...so realizing the end is not guaranteed, but the journey is so incredible. Like if you told me as a kid I would get to be part of Mars simulations and get to command these missions and get to live under the sea and do really cool science as part of this and do really cool technology development, and even work with some of these companies like I do with Sonic or advise some of these companies, you know, that's a pretty cool dream to realize as an adult! And so the journey is just as important as that end goal.”  Dr. Shawna PandyaAbout Dr. Shawna Pandya, BSc (Hons), MSc, MD, CFPC, DMT, FAWM (candidate), FEWM (honorary):Dr. Shawna Pandya is a physician, aquanaut, scientist-astronaut candidate with the International Institute for Astronautical Sciences (IIAS), skydiver, pilot-in-training, VP Immersive Medicine with Luxsonic Technologies, Associate Fellow of the Aerospace Medicine Association, and Fellow of the Explorers Club. She is Director of IIAS' Space Medicine Group, Chief Instructor for IIAS' Operational Space Medicine course, a host with the World Extreme Medicine's podcast series, Primary Investigator for the Shad Canada-Blue Origin student microgravity competition, member of the AIAA ASCEND Guiding Coalition, medical advisor at Astreas and Above: Space Development Corporation, and sessional lecturer for “Technology and the Future of Medicine,” at the University of Alberta. Dr. Pandya was on the first crew to test a commercial spacesuit in zero-gravity in 2015. She earned her aquanaut designation on the 2019 NEPTUNE (Nautical Experiments in Physiology, Technology and Underwater Exploration) mission. Her expeditions have been previously captured in the 2019 Land Rover short, 'Another World,' released with the Apollo 11: First Steps film, and in the 2022 FIGS Space Navy and Mauve space medicine themed campaign. She interned at ESA's European Astronaut Center and NASA's Johnson Space Center. Her publications include a paper on medical guidelines for commercial suborbital spaceflight, and book chapters on space technologies that have benefitted terrestrial medicine, psychological resilience in long-duration spaceflight, and reproduction and sexuality in long-duration spaceflight. In 2021, she was granted an Honorary Fellowship in Extreme and Wilderness Medicine and named to the Canadian Women's Executive Network's Top 100 Most Powerful Women. Her work is permanently exhibited at the Ontario Science Center alongside Dr. Roberta Bondar, the first Canadian woman in space. In 2022, Dr. Pandya was named to the Explorers' Club's “50 Explorers Changing the World."Resources:Shawna Pandya, MD on LinkedInDr. Shawna Pandya at the IIAS (International Institute for Astronautical Sciences)WEMcast (World Extreme Medicine Podcast)Dr. Roberta Bondar“No Ego” by Cy Wakeman“An Astronaut's Guide to Life on Earth” by Chris HadfieldHouston, We Have a Podcast (NASA podcast) “Another World: A Film by Land Rover” short film on YouTube“FIGS Scrubs: Space Navy and Mauve” ad on YouTubeLearn more about Dr. Laura on her website: https://drlaura.liveFor more resources, look into Dr. Laura's organizations: Canada Career CounsellingCalgary Career CounsellingSynthesis Psychology

British-American composer and force of nature Tarik O'Regan meets Wise Music Group CEO Dave Holley and Creative Director Gill Graham in this whirlwind of an episode of Composing Myself. Conversational ping-pongs gently batted about the table this week include:- driverless taxis in San Francisco and “the dominance of tech” in our everyday lives- John-Paul Jones and the aborted arrow dance- a brief stint in banking- what the devil is a fugue?- long childhood car journeys listening to Led Zeppelin, Madonna and a selection of local Algerian oud players- a fascinating, globe-spanning family tree including great-great-great grandfather, renowned Irish mathematician William Rowan Hamilton, and the influence it's had on Tarik's musical output- the not-entirely-pressure-free task of composing for none other than the coronation of King Charles IIITarik is a brilliant raconteur and this ebullient episode is one of our best yet.https://www.tarikoregan.com/Tarik Hamilton O'Regan is a London-born composer based in San Francisco. In recent years much of his work has investigated and been influenced by his dual Arab and Irish heritages.Tarik is Composer-in-Residence with Philharmonia Baroque Orchestra (PBO), where he is also overseeing an ambitious new commissioning initiative. The 2022/23 season sees performances by the Jacksonville Symphony Orchestra, Netherlands Radio Choir, the Carducci Quartet, Santa Fe Desert Chorale, Alexander String Quartet, and PBO, and the televised world premiere of a commission from His Majesty King Charles III for The Coronation Service at Westminster Abbey.Tarik's output, recognized with two GRAMMY® nominations and two Ivors®, has been recorded on over 40 albums, and is published exclusively by Novello. He maintains a longstanding commitment to education and service to the arts in general. Most recently, this has been recognized by his election to an Honorary Fellowship of Pembroke College, Oxford, and to the board of Yaddo, one of the oldest artists' communities in the USA. Tarik was also included in the Washington Post's annual list of creative artists “changing the classical landscape” for 2022. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Christine Herbert FAMH, DipAET, BA(Hons) qualified as a herbalist in 1997 and has been practising and learning herbal medicine ever since. During the years of her practice, she added many skills, including nutrition, aromatic medicine and flower essence therapy, in order to be best able to help the many people who came to see her. She retired from practice in 2019 so that she could teach and write using all the knowledge she had acquired. She served on the Association of Master Herbalists council for several years and was awarded an Honorary Fellowship on retirement. Previous to 1997, she worked as a senior biomedical scientist for nineteen years for the NHS. Inflammation, the source of chronic disease: How to treat it with herbs and natural healing was published by Aeon Books earlier this year.After 20 years working in pathology and haematology, Christine's enlightenment into the world of herbal medicine has led her on a journey to discovering the importance of diet in our health. She shares her wisdom on how various can herbs work with the body to reduce the inflammation that triggers chronic illnesses. Her positive outlook inspires hope for everybody that almost every health ailment can be improved.Christine talks on:Inflammation as a unifying principle of Chronic diseaseHow herbs tackle inflammation and promote healingThe importance of alterative herbs in chronic ill healthSalicylate sensitivity Controlling inflammation through dietBest herbs for improving gut healthTherapeutic support via adaptogens and tonicsYou can read Christine's article on Inflammation on the Herbal Reality website here: https://www.herbalreality.com/health-lifestyle/immunity/inflammation-global-epidemic/Grab a copy of Christine's book Inflammation, the source of chronic disease: How to treat it with herbs and natural healing from Aeon Books here: https://www.aeonbooks.co.uk/author/christine-herbert/23567/Find out more about Herbal Reality on Instagram @herbal.reality or visit www.herbalreality.com Herbcast is produced by Decibelle Creative: @decibelle_creative / www.decibellecreative.com

Dr. Anne-Marie Imafidon MBE is a prodigy in every sense of the word. Aged 11, she was the youngest girl ever to pass A-level computing, and was just 20 years old when she received her Master's Degree in Mathematics and Computer Science from the University of Oxford. Since then, she has forged an enviable CV, including positions at Goldman Sachs, Hewlett-Packard and Deutsche Bank. Then there are the Honorary Doctorates from Open University, Glasgow Caledonian University, Kent University, Bristol University & Coventry University and an Honorary Fellowship at Keble College, Oxford. She is also a Visiting Professor at the University of Sunderland and sits on the Council of Research England. It is this wealth of experience and pioneering spirit that led her to co-found the Stemettes, an award-winning social initiative dedicated to inspiring and promoting the next generation of young women in the STEM sectors. Since its inception 10 years ago, it has exposed 60,000 young people across Europe to Anne-Marie's vision for a more diverse and balanced science and tech community. In 2022 she released her new book She's in CTRL a guidebook for women to take back tech. In recognition of her influence and achievements, Anne-Marie was awarded an MBE in the 2017 New Year's Honours for services to young women and STEM sectors. In June 2017, she became an Honorary Fellow at Keble College, Oxford and in 2020 was voted the most influential woman in tech in the UK by Computer Weekly.   Episode 105 of the Better Learning Podcast   Kevin Stoller is the host of the Better Learning Podcast and Co-Founder of Kay-Twelve, a national leader for educational furniture. Learn more about creating better learning environments at www.Kay-Twelve.com.     Who made this episode possible? Dr. Anne-Marie Imafidon Dr. Anne-Marie Imafidon STEMettes Connect on LinkedIn! Follow on Twitter! Kevin Stoller Connect on LinkedIn! Follow on Twitter! Kay-Twelve Kay-Twelve Website LinkedIn Profile Twitter Profile Better Learning Podcast Better Learning Podcast Website Follow on YouTube! Association for Learning Environments (A4LE) The Association for Learning Environments Website LinkedIn Profile Twitter Profile Education Leaders' Organization The Education Leaders' Organization Website LinkedIn Profile Twitter Profile Second Class Foundation The Second Class Foundation Website

 In this episode, host Danielle Radojcin travels to East London to meet Hannah Starkey, the British photographer. Since she first came to prominence in the 90s, Starkey has built up an impressive body of work focusing on women and how they are represented. Born in Belfast in 1971, she studied photography and film at Edinburgh's Napier University in the 90s and went on to study photography at the Royal College of Art in London. Today, her work can be found in major collections including the Tate and the Victoria & Albert Museum and In 2019 she was awarded the Honorary Fellowship of the Royal Photographic Society.From autumn 2022 until the end of April 2023, the Hepworth Wakefield gallery in West Yorkshire presents the first major survey exhibition of Starkey's work. In this episode, Radojcin and Starkey discuss Starkey's process and how she works with her subjects;  what she calls “the consumer gaze” and the tyranny of social media, porn and the fashion and beauty industries on young women; and the power of photography as a tool for communication. Episode photo: Jeff Moore

What are the 6 components of Wisdom? Why is wisdom important for relationships? We answer all these and more on today's episode of It Starts With Attraction!Today's Guest: Dilip Jeste, M.D.Dilip V. Jeste, M.D. is Former Senior Associate Dean for Healthy Aging and Senior Care and Distinguished Professor of Psychiatry and Neurosciences at University of California San Diego. He obtained his medical education in Pune, and psychiatry training in Mumbai, India. In the US, he completed psychiatry residency at Cornell, and Neurology residency at George Washington University. He was a research fellow, and later, Chief of the Units on Movement Disorders and Dementias at the National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH) before joining UC San Diego where he retired in July 2022.He started a Geriatric Psychiatry program from scratch at UC San Diego; it became one of the largest Geriatric Psychiatry Divisions in the world. Dr. Jeste has been Principal Investigator on a number of research and training grants. His main areas of research include schizophrenia, neuropsychiatric interventions, and successful aging. He has published 14 books, including his most recent book entitled “Wiser”, over 750+ articles in peer-reviewed journals, and 160+ invited book chapters. He was listed in “The Best Doctors in America” and in the Institute of Scientific Information list of the “world's most cited authors” comprising fewer than 0.5% percent of all publishing researchers of the previous two decades. Dr. Jeste has received many awards including NIMH's MERIT Award; Commendation for Dedicated Service from the Veterans Affairs; and awards from Society of Biological Psychiatry; APA; Institute of Living; American College of International Physicians; National Alliance on Mental Illness; National Alliance for Research in Schizophrenia and Affective Disorders; American College of Psychiatrists; International Psychogeriatric Association; Universities of Pennsylvania, Pittsburgh, Cincinnati, and Maryland, and Cornell. He has also received Honorary Fellowship, the highest honor it bestows, from UK's Royal College of Psychiatrists; and Honorary Professorship from Universidad Peruana Cayetano Heredia, Lima, Peru.Links Mentioned:Book: amazon.com/Wiser-Scientific-Roots-Wisdom-Compassion/dp/1683644638Website: dilipjestemd.comWebsite: aging.ucsd.eduTedMed: tedmed.com/speakers/show?id=526374Your Host: Kimberly Beam Holmes, Expert in Self-Improvement and RelationshipsKimberly Beam Holmes has applied her master's degree in psychology for over ten years, acting as the CEO of Marriage Helper & CEO and Creator of PIES University, being a wife and mother herself, and researching how attraction affects relationships. Her videos, podcasts, and following reach over 200,000 people a month who are making changes and becoming the best they can be.Website: www.kimberlybeamholmes.comTake the Attraction AssessmentThanks for listening!Connect on Instagram: @kimberlybeamholmesBe sure to SUBSCRIBE to the podcast and leave a review!Visit marriagehelper.com/drjoe to sign up for the in-person workshop on November 18-20

In episode 232 UNP founder and curator Grant Scott is in his shed reflecting on photographer and photo editor Eamon McCabe, finding context to get paid and the positive and negative aspects of the photo community online. Plus this week, photographer Jane Hilton takes on the challenge of supplying Grant with an audio file no longer than 5 minutes in length in which she answer's the question ‘What Does Photography Mean to You?' Jane Hilton is a London based photographer and filmmaker renowned for her work documenting American Culture, in particular the American West, which she has explored for the past twenty-five years. Her monographs include, 2010s Dead Eagle Trail depicting the lifestyle of the twenty-first century cowboy, 2013s Precious featuring intimate nude portraits of working girls in Nevada and most recently 2016s LA Gun Club exploring American gun culture with a collection of unique 'shot up' target posters. Hilton is fascinated by subjects that are legal, but not socially acceptable. In 2000 she was commissioned by the BBC to make a series of ten documentary films about two brothels in Nevada, titled Love for Sale, the only state in America where prostitution is legal. She was awarded an Honorary Fellowship of the Royal Photographic Society in 2014 and chosen as one of the 'Hundred Heroines' representing internationally the most inspirational women in photography today. Her work has appeared in numerous major publications including The Sunday Times Magazine, The Telegraph Magazine and FT Magazine. Hilton's work is widely collected and exhibited with recent solo shows including, LA Gun Club, at the Eleven Gallery, London in 2016, American Cowboy at the Nailya Alexander Gallery, New York in 2015, Jane Hilton's America, at the Schilt Gallery, Amsterdam in 2014. She has spent the last five years filming the The Last Lion Tamer following a family's fight to save their lifestyle as the government intends to ban all wild animals performing in circuses. https://janehilton.com Dr. Grant Scott is the founder/curator of United Nations of Photography, a Senior Lecturer and Subject Co-ordinator: Photography at Oxford Brookes University, Oxford, a working photographer, documentary filmmaker, BBC Radio contributor and the author of Professional Photography: The New Global Landscape Explained (Routledge 2014), The Essential Student Guide to Professional Photography (Routledge 2015), New Ways of Seeing: The Democratic Language of Photography (Routledge 2019). His film Do Not Bend: The Photographic Life of Bill Jay was first screened in 2018 www.donotbendfilm.com. He is the presenter of the A Photographic Life and In Search of Bill Jay podcasts. © Grant Scott 2022

In questo audio il prezioso incontro con Massimiliano Fuksas Architetto Chiara Sbarigia presidente Istituto Luce Cinecittà.L'intervista è nel podcast Contemporaneamente di Mariantonietta Firmani, il podcast pensato per Artribune.In Contemporaneamente podcast trovate incontri tematici con autorevoli interpreti del contemporaneo tra arte e scienza, letteratura, storia, filosofia, architettura, cinema e molto altro. Per approfondire questioni auliche ma anche cogenti e futuribili. Dialoghi straniati per accedere a nuove letture e possibili consapevolezze dei meccanismi correnti: tra locale e globale, tra individuo e società, tra pensiero maschile e pensiero femminile, per costruire una visione ampia, profonda ed oggettiva della realtà.Con Massimiliano Fuksas e Chiara Sbarigia parliamo di architettura e cinema, tra spazio del corpo e luogo della mente. Parliamo della fascinazione del cinema che introduce nell'architettura concetti di montaggio, piani sequenza, molteplici punti di vista, in un percorso che accumula esperienze. L'avvento della tv mandò in crisi il cinema italiano con palinsesti saturi di film americani, così abbiamo sviluppato nuove produzioni audiovisive. Dall'osmosi tra architettura e cinema come annullamento della materia, tuta la cultura è connessione e sovversione, interazione tra idee vecchie e nuove. Una produzione cinematografica racconta la società che la esprime perciò è importante una produzione italiana ed europea. L'architettura è l'arte della pace. La meccanica quantistica determina tutte le evoluzioni tecnologiche, nell'audiovisivo come nell'architettura, a Shenzhen con ottanta algoritmi abbiamo portato la luce naturale nell'edificio. Non può esserci felicità in una società, dove metà della popolazione mondiale sopravvive per mantenere milleduecento persone, e molto altro. ASCOLTA L'INTERVISTA! BREVI NOTE BIOGRAFICHE DEGLI AUTORI Chiara Sbarigia è Presidente di Cinecittà S.p.A. Nata a Roma, laureata in lettere a pieni voti, è un'esperta conoscitrice del settore della produzione audiovisiva italiana e internazionale. Nel 1994 inizia il percorso professionale all'interno dell'APA, la maggiore associazione di produttori dell'audiovisivo, di cui è stata nominata direttore generale nel 2003. Dal 2020 è presidente dell'APA Service, e tesoriere del CEPI Coordinamento Europeo dei Produttori Indipendenti. Già direttrice operativa del Roma Fiction Fest e del Mercato Internazionale dell'Audiovisivo per diverse edizioni, è giurata nelle ultime edizioni del Festival delle serie-tv di Montecarlo, e molto altro. Massimiliano Fuksas (Roma, 1944) architetto e designer di fama internazionale con Studi a Roma, Parigi e Shenzhen. Laurea nel 1969 con Ludovico Quaroni. È stato Visiting Professor presso diverse università come la Columbia University di New York, l'École Spéciale d'Architecture di Parigi, l'Akademie der Bildenden Künste di Vienna e Stoccarda. Realizza 83 grandi progetti tra Italia, Francia, Olanda, Germania, Cina, USA, Giappone, Regio Unito, Israele, Georgia, Russia, Australia.Autore di opere pubbliche come: Fiera Rho-Pero di Milano, Centro Congressi EUR di Roma, Aeroporto di Shenzhen; dedica particolare attenzione ai problemi urbani nelle grandi aree metropolitane. Riceve innumerevoli incarichi ed onorificenze: Membro delle Commissioni di Pianificazione di Berlino e Salisburgo, Premio alla carriera "Vitruvio International a la Trayectoria" Buenos Aires. Direttore della "VII Mostra Internazionale di Architettura di Venezia". Grand Prix National d'Architecture Française, e Commandeur de l'Ordre des Arts et des Lettres de la République Française. Honorary Fellowship dell'AIA – American Institute of Architects, Washington. Membro delle Accademie di Architettura, di Parigi e di Sofia. Membro Onorario del Royal Institute of British Architects, Londra. Cavaliere di Gran Croce della Repubblica Italiana; Global Lithuanian Award; Idea-Tops Awards, Shenzhen Bao'an International Airport-T3; Architizer A+Award New York; Popular Choice Award Varsavia, e molti altri.

In this episode we are talking to the insightful Carolyne Crowe. We talk about everything from communication, managing expectations and listening. And what inspired her to run 10 marathons in 10 days! Carolyne is an equine vet, personal performance coach, mentor, international speaker, researcher and lecturer, and has a Masters degree in Workplace Health and Wellbeing. Through her role as Head of Training at the VDS, she has been able to help support professionals through non-clinical training on leadership, resilience and communication, helping workplaces and employees learn and grow in a busy and pressured environment.  As a founding member of the Coach of Excellence Accreditation, Carolyne was awarded an Honorary Fellowship in 2020 for her outstanding contribution to the profession.   We would like to say a huge thank you to the VDS for their support of this podcast and to Carolyne for this inspirational conversation!   https://www.vds-training.co.uk/ https://www.thevds.co.uk/  

In our March Broadcast, we are delighted to have Caroline Drummond MBE, Chief Executive of LEAF (Linking Environment And Farming). Caroline has been running LEAF, the farming and environmental charity since it started in 1991. She is especially interested in the development of sustainable food and farming and she has over 38 years experience in this area. She graduated in Agriculture and has broad practical agricultural experience from across the globe. Her work focuses on encouraging more sustainable farming practices and building a better public trust and understanding of farming, food, health and the environment – values that she is personally extremely passionate about. She is actively involved in many industry partnerships and initiatives in the UK and Europe. In 2009 Caroline was awarded the Member of the British Empire (MBE) by the Queen, she has an Honorary Doctorate from Harper Adams University, a Nuffield Scholarship studying ‘ What can Farmers Learn from Science to improve the Nutrition of our Food'  and was awarded Honorary Fellowship for the Society of the Environment. In 2017 she was awarded the IAgrE Award For Outstanding Contribution to the Landbased Sector and the Farmers Guardian Outstanding Contribution to Agriculture. In 2018 she was awarded the RASE National Agriculture Award and an Honorary Fellowship from the Royal Agricultural University. Caroline is actively involved with the British Nutrition Foundation, North Wyke, the Agri-tech initiative – is a director of the Agri-tech centre on Crop Health And Protection, the Institute of Agriculture Management, and on the advisory board of the agricultural project for the Science Museum. Women in Food and Farming is a group of professional women in food, agriculture and the land-based industries at all stages of their careers, who get together to discuss business issues, support each other via mentorship and advice, and help generate networks of contacts that might be useful to themselves and their businesses. Founded in 2011 by Christine Tacon CBE, the group started back in 2011 with just five women and has now grown to over 500 members. Christine is known to many as the first Grocery Code Adjudicator and head of the Co-op's farming business, she has just been appointed Chair of Assured Food Standards which operates the Red Tractor Assurance scheme amongst other roles. Beanstalk is very proud to offer our extensive platforms to allow Women in Food and Farming to continue their conversation and debate and to encourage new members ongoing to join them, be that on a virtual Broadcast basis.

Born 1953 in Cardiff, Wales, Peter Fraser acquired his first camera at the age of 7 and after a false start studying Civil Engineering, at 18, began studying photography at Manchester Polytechnic the following year. In the summer of 1974 he lived in New York and worked at the Laurel Photography Bookstore at 32nd St and 6th Avenue which significantly expanded his sense of photography's expressive possibilities. He graduated in 1976 after repeating his 3rd year due to major illness crossing the Sahara, while photographing in West Africa.Peter lived in Holland and Hebden Bridge, West Yorkshire, before moving back to Manchester in 1981. He then began working with a Plaubel Makina camera in 1982 which led to an exhibition with William Eggleston at the Anolfini, Bristol in 1984, and a move to that city. In summer 1984 Peter travelled to Memphis, USA to spend nearly two months with Eggleston, which confirmed for him the desire to commit his life to working with colour photography.He then worked on several series of photographs, leading to a first publication, Two Blue Buckets which won the Bill BrandtPrize in London (the precursor of the CitiBank International Photography Prize), in 1988.He moved to London in 1990, subsequently publishing several new bodies of work,  including Ice and Water1993, Deep Blue 1997,Material 2002, and Peter Fraser (Nazraeli Press) 2006.In 2002, The Photographers' Gallery, London, staged a 20 year survey exhibition of Peter's work, and he was shortlisted for the Citigroup International Photography Prize in 2004. In 2006 he was invited to be an Artist in Residence at Oxford University, England and produced new work for permanent installation in their new Biochemistry building in 2008.In 2009 Peter was given a major commission by The Ffotogallery, Wales, to return to his country of birth, to make new work for a solo exhibition at the gallery, which opened in March 2010, with a new publication, Lost For Words.In 2008 Fraser began working on A City In The Mind a new series of photographs in London, which was shown at Brancolini Grimaldi Gallery, London in May 2012 accompanied by a Steidl Publication.From January to May 2013, Tate St Ives held a retrospective of Fraser's career, the first Tate Retrospective for a living British Photographer working in colour, and Tate published a major monograph on the whole of Fraser's career with a text by David Chandler. Tate purchased 10 works for their permanent collection from theTwo Blue Buckets series in 2014.In 2014 Peter was awarded an Honorary Fellowship by the Royal Photographic Society, UK.In spring 2017 Peperoni Books, Berlin, published a new ‘Director's Cut' of Fraser's 1988 publication Two Blue Bucketswith 19 missing images from the original, and a new essay by Gerry Badger and a discussion between Fraser and David Campany.In 2017 Peter's exhibition Mathematics was exhibited at the Real Jardin de Botanico, Madrid, part of PhotoEspana 17 and Skinnerboox, Italy, published Mathematics with 52 colour plates, and essays by Mark Durden, David Campany and an afterword by Peter. The first UK exhibition of Mathematicsopened at Camden Arts Centre, London on the 5th July, and ran to 16th September 2018. The accompanying File Note no 120 published by the gallery, featured a specially commissioned essay The Things That Count by Amy Sherlock, Deputy Editor of Frieze.In March 2021 Peter received a Pollock Krasner Foundation Award, to support the production of new work in the UK and across Europe in the time of Covid-19 ‘paying subtle attention to atmosphere and nuance, quietly reflecting on manifestations of our responses to the enormous changes taking place across the human landscape'. On episode 172, Peter discusses, among other things:The Pollock Krasner Foundation Award.Responses to Covid and his approach.Poetic truth vs. documentary truth.How he came to live in Hebden Bridge, Manchester.Seeing in colour, having made a B&W darkroom.His epiphany in the sahara desert.The influence of the film, Powers of Ten, which he saw at 15.His love of mathematics and how he came to explore it photographically.His Two Blue Buckets image and why it's significant.Staying with William Eggleston in the 80s and what he took away from it.His ‘lost decade', broke in London, printing for Martin Parr and other photographers. Referenced:Jackson PollackTed HughesAlbert Street Workshop - Ray Elliott and Jenny Beavan Martin ParrCharlie MeechamBrian GriffinPaul GrahamCharles and Ray Eames - Powers of TenMax TegmarkThe New Colour Photography by Sally EuclaireJem SouthamWilliam Eggleston Flannery O'connorVolker HelnzMarcus HansenChris Dorley BrownDafna TalmorWolfgang TillmansNick SerotaWilliam ScottDavid ChandlerWebsite | Instagram“I'm absolutely awestruck by the almost incomprehensible beauty and strangeness of everything that is around us. And that goes to the very heart of what I've spent 40 years trying to investigate.”

Dr. Duncan French has over 20 years' experience working with elite professional and Olympic athletes. Prior to joining the UFC, French was the Director of Performance Science at the University of Notre Dame. From 2005 – 2015, French was a Technical Lead for Strength and Conditioning at the English Institute of Sport. He has worked three Olympic cycles as the national lead for strength and conditioning to Great Britain Basketball and more recently Great Britain Taekwondo Olympic programs.French earned his PhD from the University of Connecticut in 2004 and has authored or co-authored over 60 peer-reviewed scientific manuscripts. He is a fully accredited strength and conditioning coach with the United Kingdom Strength and Conditioning Association (UKSCA), Australian Strength and Conditioning Association (ASCA), and the National Strength and Conditioning Association (NSCA). French is a former Chairman of the UKSCA and received an Honorary Fellowship in 2014 for his services to the strength and conditioning industry.

Jason was born in Camden, London, in 1969. He was given his first camera at the age of 5.He decided on a career as a portrait photographer whilst studying Politics, Philosophy and Economics at Oxford University, from which he graduated in 1990. His work has since appeared in many of the world's foremost publications including Vanity Fair and Vogue US & UK, featuring leading celebrities such as Angelina Jolie, Leonardo DiCaprio, Scarlett Johansson, Johnny Depp, Emily Blunt, Natalie Portman, David Beckham, Nicole Kidman, Benedict Cumberbatch, Tilda Swinton, Eddie Redmayne, John Malkovich, Kate Winslet and Daniel Craig.He has shot numerous film, theatre and TV campaigns, including Netflix's The Crown, The Revenant, The Danish Girl, Starz' Outlander and Power, Billy Elliot, About A Boy, Love Actually, Bridget Jones 2,English National Ballet's Giselle and Nutcracker and Angels in America for the National Theatre.Many of Jason's photographs have been acquired by the National Portrait Gallery for their permanent collection.His work has received much critical acclaim and he has been the recipient of many awards including the Royal Photographic Society's Terence Donovan Award for an outstanding contribution to photography, the New York Photo Awards' Best Advertising Image and the Best British Black & White Photographer at he British Picture Editors' Awards. His Out 100 Portfolio was one of five finalists in the American Society of Magazine Editors' 2010 National Magazine Awards, the magazine industry's highest honour.He has published four books of his work, the most recent being ‘An Englishman in New York'. A selection of photographs from the book was exhibited at the National Portrait Gallery in London.In 2011 he was awarded an Honorary Fellowship of The Royal Photographic Society.On 23 October 2013, he took the official christening photographs of Prince George.In 2018 he was awarded an Honorary Fellowship of the British Institute of Professional Photography. Jason lives in New York and London.Hosted by: @mrsetheeand @RashistylesVideo & Editing: @kalerrgang You can catch The Elevated Grapes Talks Show: Fashion Chats, every Saturday at 10 am PST| 1 PM EST, on Rukus Avenue Radio Channel, on the Dash Radio App or dashradio.com @rukusavenueradio @dashradio

In episode 171 UNP founder and curator Grant Scott is in his shed reflecting on mentorship, teaching and the passing on of information. He also provides his final found rules for life. Plus this week photographer Peter Fraser on the challenge of supplying Grant with an audio file no longer than 5 minutes in length in which he answer's the question ‘What Does Photography Mean to You?' Peter Fraser bought his first camera at the age of 7 and went to school in Wales until 1971, when he left to study Civil Engineering for three months at Hatfield Polytechnic, before deciding to study photography at Manchester Polytechnic between 1972 and 1976, repeating his final year due to becoming seriously ill crossing the Sahara Desert in early 1975. Fraserwas an early adopter of colour photography in the UK, and began exhibiting colour photographs in 1982. In 1984, he travelled to Memphis, USA to spend two months with William Eggleston, after meeting him at Eggleston's first UK exhibition opening the previous year. Between 1983 and 1986, Fraser made the exhibitions, Twelve Day Journey, The Valleys Project, Everyday Icons and Towards an Absolute Zero which led to his first publication Two Blue Buckets in 1988. This book won the Bill Brandt Award hosted by the Photographers' Gallery in 1989. In 1990 Fraser was invited to be the British Artist in Residence in Marseilles, which led to the subsequent exhibition and publication Ice and Water. He travelled widely in the early 1990s to scientific research establishments photographing machines at the cutting edge of technology, proposing a series of ‘Portraits' of machines shown and published as Deep Blue. While visiting nearly 60 scientific sites, he frequently photographed in scientific ‘Clean Rooms' where particles of dust above a certain size were not admitted. Subsequently, he decided to start photographing ‘dirt and other low status' material. Simultaneous to this work was a University of Strathclyde commission to make new Art in their Applied Physics Department. This led to two series being combined into a single new series of photographs, Material published in 2002. The same year The Photographers' Gallery showed a 20-year overview of Fraser's work, and in 2004 he was shortlisted alongside Robert Adams, David Goldblatt and Joel Sternfeld for the Citigroup International Photography Prize. In 2006 Fraser was invited to be an Artist in Residence at Oxford University to make photography for the Biochemistry Department. In 2009 he was commissioned by Ffotogallery, Wales, to make work across the country that resulted in the exhibition and publication Lost For Words. In 2012 Fraser exhibited A City in the Mind at the Brancolini Grimaldi Gallery, London. In 2013 Tate St Ives exhibited a selected retrospective of his work, and published a monograph containing photographs from all of Fraser's major series to date. In 2013 Fraser received an Honorary Fellowship from the Royal Photographic Society. In 2017 his exhibition Mathematics was exhibited as part of PhotoEspana 17, and Skinnerboox, Italy, published Mathematics. The first UK exhibition of Mathematics opened at Camden Arts Centre, London in 2018. The accompanying File Notes no 120 published by the gallery, featured a specially commissioned essay The Things that Count by Amy Sherlock, deputy editor of Frieze. www.peterfraser.net Dr. Grant Scott is the founder/curator of United Nations of Photography, a Senior Lecturer and Subject Co-ordinator: Photography at Oxford Brookes University, Oxford, a working photographer, documentary filmmaker, BBC Radio contributor and the author of Professional Photography: The New Global Landscape Explained (Routledge 2014), The Essential Student Guide to Professional Photography (Routledge 2015), New Ways of Seeing: The Democratic Language of Photography (Routledge 2019). © Grant Scott 2021

Andrew Bolton joined The Costume Institute at The Metropolitan Museum of Art in 2002, as Associate Curator, was named Curator in 2006, and become Curator in Charge in January 2016 upon the retirement of his predecessor, Harold Koda. Mr. Bolton was named the Wendy Yu Curator in Charge of The Costume Institute in March 2018, when the position was endowed. Mr. Bolton worked alongside Mr. Koda on exhibitions including Dangerous Liaisons (2004), Chanel (2005), Poiret (2007), and Schiaparelli and Prada (2012). In addition, he has curated AngloMania (2006), Superheroes (2008), American Woman (2010), Alexander McQueen: Savage Beauty (2011), Punk (2013), China: Through the Looking Glass (2015), Manus x Machina (2016), Rei Kawakubo /Comme des Garçons: Art of the In-Between (2017), Heavenly Bodies: Fashion and the Catholic Imagination (2018), Camp: Notes on Fashion (2019), and About Time: Fashion and Duration (2020). Heavenly Bodies attracted more than 1.65 million visitors to The Met Fifth Avenue and The Met Cloisters, making it The Met's most visited exhibition. Previous exhibitions Bolton curated are also among The Met's most attended, including China, which had 815,992 visitors; Manus x Machina, with 752,995 visitors; and Alexander McQueen with 661,509 visitors. Bolton has authored and co-authored more than 17 books. He lectures and contributes scholarly articles to various publications. Prior to joining the Metropolitan, Mr. Bolton worked at the Victoria & Albert Museum in London for nine years, as Senior Research Fellow in Contemporary Fashion, and prior to that as Curatorial Assistant in the Far Eastern Department. During this period, he also curated exhibitions at the London College of Fashion. Born in Great Britain, Mr. Bolton earned a B.A. in social anthropology and an M.A. in Non-Western Art from the University of East Anglia. He became a Visiting Professor at the University of the Arts in London in 2007 and received an Honorary Fellowship in 2016. In 2017, he received an Honorary Fellowship from the Royal College of Art. Mr. Bolton has received several awards, including the Fashion Group International Oracle Award in 2016, the Vilcek Prize in Fashion in 2015, the Best Monographic Exhibition from the Association of Art Museum Curators for Alexander McQueen in 2011, and the Richard Martin Award for Excellence from The Costume Society of America for American Woman in 2010 and also for Poiret (with Harold Koda) in 2007. Brought to you by the British Consulate General, New York. Follow us on Twitter and Instagram.

ABOUT THIS EPISODE – Ruth suffered profound deafness following a car accident as a young girl. For many years she lived with a head full of limiting beliefs not Unlocking Her Hidden Confidence until she was in her 30's. In this episode, Ruth talks about growing up in a world of silence; relying upon lip reading to get by and how as technology advanced, a newfound confidence emerged to help Ruth ‘Believe To Achieve'. Ruth's passion for ensuring teenagers and young adults learn to understand themselves so they can break free from limiting and negative beliefs imposed upon us from generations before us, is inspiring! Ruth shares her top tips on how to “reframe, see something differently”. Together we talk about the importance of our young adults learning Life Skills. KEY TAKEAWAY- Are negative beliefs steering you off course?   “Self Understanding – Work out which messages are real and those that are not. Set your own beliefs” ABOUT RUTH FOGG- Ruth's hidden confidence was not unlocked until she was in her thirties. After a childhood accident she was left profoundly deaf in one ear and severely deaf in the other. She sincerely believed that because she was deaf, she was daft and had the evidence to prove it! Due to bullying at school, she avoided wearing her hearing aid. Life changed when she did a Diploma in Counselling Skills and her confidence soared as did her career in youth work -Principal Youth Officer in the London Borough of Ealing, Chairperson of the Centre of Youth Work Studies at Brunel University, a Trustee of Europe's largest YMCA and she was even an Ofsted Inspector! She was awarded an Honorary Fellowship from Brunel so now she had the evidence that she was not so daft after all! CONNECT WITH RUTH- www.stressworx.co.uk ruth@stressworx.co.uk Instagram ruth_fogg_stressworx * Ruth's book Tackling Teenage Mental Health is available from Amazon at https://amzn.to/3hx4L2V * Amazon Affiliate  ABOUT THE HOST – Lara is a Presence, Impact & Image  Consultant, ILM Level 5 Approved Aspire For Greatness Business Transformational Course Leader, Speaker and Co-Author of the International Bestselling book, The Law of Brand Attraction. Lara works with business leaders and entrepreneurs to Unlock Their Hidden Confidence to ensure they have maximum Impact & Influence through a Powerful, Authentic Personal Brand, Business Skills and Knowledge. If you would like Lara to Unlock Your Hidden Confidence through Colour & Style, presentation skills or in business through the Aspire For Greatness course, please book a 20 minute  coaching session via Calendly For more information about my Clarity, Kickstart & Accountability Session I talk about in the episode visit my website www.laralauder.com THE NEXT ASPIRE FOR GREATNESS COURSE COMMENCES SEPTEMBER 2021. REGISTER YOUR INTEREST BY EMAILING info@laralauder.com https://calendly.com/lara-lauder/20mindiscovery CONNECT WITH LARA   - www.laralauder.com https://www.linkedin.com/in/laralauder/ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/unlockyourhiddenconfidence/ https://www.instagram.com/lara_lauder Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/confidencewithcolour HOSTED BY: Lara Lauder DISCLAIMER The views, thoughts and opinions expressed in this podcast belong solely to the host and guest speakers. Please conduct your own due diligence.  *As an Amazon Associate I earn from qualifying purchases.

In episode 167 UNP founder and curator Grant Scott is in his shed reflecting on nostalgia, the photographic happening and a celebrity photo shoot in New York. Plus this week photographer Simon Roberts takes on the challenge of supplying Grant with an audio file no longer than 5 minutes in length in which he answer's the question ‘What Does Photography Mean to You?' exhibited widely and his photographs reside in major public and private collections, including the George Eastman House, Deutsche Börse Art Collection and V&A Museum. In 2010 he was commissioned as the official British Election Artist by the House of Commons Works of Art Committee to produce a record of the General Election and in 2014 he represented Britain during the UK-Russia Year of Culture. He has been commissioned to make several large-scale public artworks and recognised with numerous awards including an Honorary Fellowship to the Royal Photographic Society, the Vic Odden Award and grants from Arts Council England and the John Kobal Foundation. He is the author of several critically acclaimed monographs including Motherland in 2007, We English in 2009), Pierdom in 2013 and Merrie Albion in 2017. Roberts work has been profiled and published widely including in the New Yorker, Granta, National Geographic, ArtForum, Wallpaper, amongst others. He holds a BA Hons in Cultural Geography from The University of Sheffield, and is a regular public speaker and visiting lecturer at the Royal Academy of Fine Arts Antwerp. Outside of his own professional practice he is involved with several not for profit organisations having served as a trustee of Photoworks and currently working as an ambassador for FotoDocument and the Positive View Foundation. Roberts is a member of the European artist collective, Piece of Cake and lives in Brighton, England. www.simoncroberts.com You can now subscribe to our weekly newsletter at https://www.getrevue.co/profile/unofphoto Subject Co-ordinator: Photography at Oxford Brookes University, Oxford, a working photographer, documentary filmmaker, BBC Radio contributor and the author of Professional Photography: The New Global Landscape Explained (Routledge 2014), The Essential Student Guide to Professional Photography (Routledge 2015), New Ways of Seeing: The Democratic Language of Photography (Routledge 2019). © Grant Scott 2021

In episode 165 UNP founder and curator Grant Scott is in his shed reflecting on learning and teaching photography, formally, informally and unintentionally! Plus this week photographer Harry Borden takes on the challenge of supplying Grant with an audio file no longer than 5 minutes in length in which he answer's the question ‘What Does Photography Mean to You?' Harry Borden is a British portrait photographer based in London, born in New York and brought up in Devon in the UK. He studied photography at Plymouth College of Art and Design from 1985-7 and moved to London shortly afterwards, where he worked as an assistant for the photographer Lester Bookbinder. Borden received his first commission from The Observer in 1994 and as his profile grew his portraits appeared regularly in this and other Sunday supplements, as well as magazines such as Harpers & Queen, Vogue and The New Yorker. Borden was awarded the Kobal Photographic Portrait Prize in1998 and 2000 and World Press Photo awards in 1997 and 1999. In 2005, he had his first solo exhibition at the National Portrait Gallery, London titled Harry Borden: On Business. The National Portrait Gallery holds more than 100 examples of Borden's work in its photographic collection and in 2014, he was awarded an Honorary Fellowship of the Royal Photographic Society. In 2017 his book Survivor, A Portrait of the Survivors of the Holocaust was published having been short-listed for the European Publishers Award for Photography and in 2014 judged among the 10 best Photography books of 2018 by the Kraszna-Krausz Foundation. His second book, Single Dad was published in 2021. https://harryborden.co.uk You can now subscribe to our weekly newsletter at https://www.getrevue.co/profile/unofphoto Subject Co-ordinator: Photography at Oxford Brookes University, Oxford, a working photographer, documentary filmmaker, BBC Radio contributor and the author of Professional Photography: The New Global Landscape Explained (Routledge 2014), The Essential Student Guide to Professional Photography (Routledge 2015), New Ways of Seeing: The Democratic Language of Photography (Routledge 2019). Grant's book What Does Photography Mean to You? including 89 photographers who have contributed to the A Photographic Life podcast is on sale now £9.99 https://bluecoatpress.co.uk/product/what-does-photography-mean-to-you/ © Grant Scott 2021

I den relativt ferske oppdateringen fra Verdens helseorganisasjon om anbefalinger for fysisk aktivitet ble nå endelig gravide inkludert. For faktum er at de fleste kvinner i den generelle befolkningen ikke møter anbefalingene om fysisk aktivitet og for gravide kvinner reduseres aktivitetsnivået oftest utover i svangerskapet. På den andre siden er det de kvinnene som både oppfyller og virkelig overgår anbefalingene for fysisk aktivitet og liker å trene - MYE. Noen har det også som sin fulltidsjobb å være idrettsutøvere. Det vi, mange trenere og mange av disse kvinnene lurer på er hvordan de skal forholde seg til trening nå som de er gravide, og hva så med trening i tiden etter fødsel? Dette om mange problemstillinger rundt gravidtrening for idrettskvinner diskuterer og lærer vi mer om med god hjelp av professor ved Norges Idrettshøgskole, Jorunn Sundgot-Borgen.Sundgot-Borgen er professor i fysisk aktivitet og helse ved Institutt for idrettsmedisinske fag, NIH. Hun tok mastergrad ved Arizona State University i 1985 og doktorgrad ved NIH i 1993. Sundgot-Borgen har arbeidet på Olympiatoppen og ledet ernæringsavdelingen der i mange år. Hun har vært nestleder og fungerende leder for Nasjonalt råd for fysisk aktivitet og er nå visepresident i Nordisk selskap for spiseforstyrrelser. Hun sitter i Medical and Scientific Expert Group for IOC. Hun er Fellow i ACSM, og Honorary Fellowship of the Faculty of Sport and Exercise Medicine RCPI (Royal College of Physicians of Ireland) & RCSI (Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland). Forskningsområdene hennes er blant annet idrettsernæring, spiseforstyrrelser, vektregulering, menstruasjonsforstyrrelser og beinhelse. Du finner forskningen til Jorunn Sundgot-Borgen HER:CRISTIN: https://wo.cristin.no/as/WebObjects/cristin.woa/wa/fres?sort=ar&pnr=328536&la=no&action=sok Researchgate: https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Jorunn-Sundgot-Borgen Følg oss på @prestasjonsprat på Instagram See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Knowing that she was different when she was young but not knowing why and only finally understanding the dramatic impact of fracturing both her ears in a car crash five years previous, Ruth Fogg had become profoundly deaf. Ruth shares how the seed was sown aged 11 that she was not only deaf but considered daft and how the world finally opened up to her as an adult with the encouraging words from a mentor. Now working as a stress consultant, Ruth encourages people to use the magic in their fingertips with self-help tips eliminating stress in their life.  KEY TAKEAWAY “We all live by our attitudes, beliefs and values. They are our framework as well as our perceptions of others. I always say to clients, especially young people, to really explore their values because they affect their relationships.” ABOUT RUTH FOGG Speaker, Educator, Therapist, Author, Ruth specialises in providing practical skills and solutions to understand and manage stress. She works on the principle that “Everything Starts Somewhere” and will explore the root cause of issues and show clients how to clear them.   Stress management is her second career, her first being in teaching, then youth work, which saw her work her way up from a part time youth worker to a Principal Youth Officer in a London Borough. She was the Chairperson of the Centre for Youth Work Studies at Brunel University for ten years, for which she was awarded an Honorary Fellowship. She was a trainer and assessor for youth work and an Ofsted Inspector too!   Stress in her personal life prompted early retirement so she built upon her Master's Degree in Counselling Psychology with hypnosis, stress management and energy psychology to develop Stressworx. She also trained Connexions Advisors for Brunel during this transition and became one of five Master Facilitators for the 7 Habits Teen programme in the UK.   Throughout both careers Ruth has always balanced her paid work with voluntary work and she was a Director of YMCA London South West and Middlesex Young Peoples' Clubs. She was also a Trustee for MIND in Ealing and YMCA Training. At present she is part of a group who are promoting a “happy and healthy community” in her village and is a School Governor.   Ruth has written three books as part of a series entitled “Stress N' Stuff” – Tackling Teenage Mental Health, Tackling Tough Times and tackling Student Stress and is working on some children's books as we speak. She is a member of the PSA and a Fellow of ISMA (International Stress Management Association) and wears hearing aids in both ears - her deafness doesn't stop her from helping stressed people! CONNECT WITH RUTH https://www.facebook.com/stressworx Instagram ruth_fogg_stressworx https://www.linkedin.com/in/ruthfogg/ www.stressworx.co.uk ABOUT THE HOST - AMY ROWLINSON Amy is a Life Purpose Coach, Podcast Mentor, Top 1% Global Podcaster, Speaker, Mastermind Host and Property Investor. Through coaching and workshops, Amy works with businesses to Focus on WHY to create people-centred environments, by improving productivity and employee engagement by focusing on fulfilment, values and purpose. Amy inspires and empowers entrepreneurial clients to discover the life they dream of by assisting them to make it their reality through their own action taking. Helping them to focus on their WHY with clarity uniting their passion and purpose with a plan to create the life they truly desire. If you would like Amy to help you on your podcast hosting or to focus on your WHY then please book a free 20 min call via www.calendly.com/amyrowlinson/enquirycall Please sign up for the weekly Friday Focus newsletter at https://www.amyrowlinson.com/subscribe-to-weekly-newsletter   CONNECT WITH AMY https://www.joinclubhouse.com/@amyrowlinson https://www.instagram.com/focusonwhy/  https://www.instagram.com/amy.rowlinson/ https://www.facebook.com/RowlinsonAmy/ https://www.facebook.com/focusonwhy/ https://www.facebook.com/groups/focusonwhy/ https://www.linkedin.com/in/amyrowlinson/   HOSTED BY: Amy Rowlinson   DISCLAIMER The views, thoughts and opinions expressed in this podcast belong solely to the host and guest speakers. Please conduct your own due diligence. 

Matt Hyde is Chief Executive of the Scouts, the UK's largest coeducational youth movement. Formerly Chief Executive of the National Union of Students (NUS), he has undertaken a number of leadership roles in the charity sector and as Chief Executive of the Scouts has contributed to a period of record membership growth since he joined in 2013.  He has overseen the development and delivery of a rebrand, award-winning campaigns and has spearheaded work to support the growth of Scouting in areas of deprivation.Matt is also a trustee of Comic Relief, a Patron of UNLOCK (the charity for people with convictions) and was previously Vice-Chair of the National Council for Voluntary Organisations (NCVO).  He developed the world's first degree apprenticeship for social change which launched at Queen Mary University of London in 2019. Matt was awarded an OBE in the 2020 New Years Honours List and an Honorary Fellowship from Queen Mary University of London in 2012. He was named as one of the 25 most influential charity sector leaders by Charity Times in 2019.

Welcome to the walk a mile in my shoes podcast, I'm your host, Chris Young, and in this episode, I'll be speaking with Marina Cantacuzino, an award-winning journalist who in 2003, in response to the imminent invasion of Iraq, embarked on a personal project collecting stories from people who had lived through violence, tragedy or injustice and sought forgiveness rather than revenge. In 2004, she founded The Forgiveness Project, a charitable organisation that uses real personal narratives to explore how ideas around forgiveness, reconciliation and conflict resolution can be used to impact positively on people's lives. In 2012, Marina spoke at the UN General Assembly about the work of The Forgiveness Project and, in 2015, she was awarded an Honorary Fellowship by the Dalai Lama Centre for Compassion. Take a look at her books, The Forgiveness Project: Stories for a Vengeful Age and Forgiveness is Really Strange, you won't regret it. Remember, if you enjoy the podcast, subscribe, comment, rate and review, that way we can get more people involved in the conversation. You can join up with our rather lovely Facebook Group here. If Twitter's more your thing, you'll find me @walkamileuk Until the next time, I've been Chris Young and you've been rather fabulous, Walk a Mile

 Dr. Shawna Pandya MD, is a scientist-astronaut candidate with Project PoSSUM, physician, aquanaut, speaker, martial artist, advanced diver, skydiver, and pilot-in-training. Dr. Pandya is also the VP of Immersive Medicine with the virtual reality healthcare company, Luxsonic Technologies, Director of the International Institute of Astronautical Sciences (IIAS)/PoSSUM Space Medicine Group, Chief Instructor of the IIAS/PoSSUM Operational Space Medicine course, Director of Medical Research at Orbital Assembly Construction (a company building the world's first rotating space station providing the first artificial gravity habitat), clinical lecturer at the University of Alberta, podcast host with the World Extreme Medicine's WEMCast series, Primary Investigator (PI) for the Shad Canada-Blue Origin student micro-gravity competition, member of the ASCEND 2021 Guiding Coalition, Life Sciences Team Lead for the Association of Spaceflight Professionals, sesional lecturer for the “Technology and the Future of Medicine,” course at the University of Alberta, and Fellow of the Explorers' Club. Dr. Pandya also serves as medical advisor to several space, medical and technology companies, including Mission: Space Food, Gennesys and Aquanauta, as well as the Jasper Dark Sky Festival Advisory Committee. Dr. Pandya holds a Bsc degree in neuroscience from University of Alberta, a MSc in Space Studies from International Space University, an MD from University of Alberta, and a certification in entrepreneurship from the Graduate Studies Program at Singularity University. Dr. Pandya is currently completing a fellowship in Wilderness Medicine (Academy of Wilderness Medicine), was granted an Honorary Fellowship in Extreme and Wilderness Medicine by the World Extreme Medicine organization in 2021, and was one of 50 physicians selected to attend the 2021 European Space Agency Space Medicine Physician Training Course. Dr. Pandya was named one of the Women's Executive Network's Top 100 Most Powerful Women in Canada in 2021, and a Canadian Space Agency Space Ambassador in 2021. Dr. Pandya was part of the first crew to test a commercial spacesuit in zero-gravity in 2015. Dr. Pandya earned her aquanaut designation during the 2019 NEPTUNE (Nautical Experiments in Physiology, Technology and Underwater Exploration) mission. She previously served as Commander during a 2020 tour at the Mars Desert Research Station. Her expeditions were captured in the Land Rover short, released with the Apollo 11: First Steps film. She previously interned at ESA's European Astronaut Center and NASA's Johnson Space Center. Dr. Pandya's publications include book chapters on space spin-offs for medical benefit, psychological resilience in long-duration spaceflight, and reproduction and sexuality in long-duration spaceflight. In 2019, Dr. Pandya's career and trajectory were captured at the Ontario Science Center's “Canadian Women in Space,” exhibit, where Dr. Pandya is permanently exhibited alongside Dr. Roberta Bondar, the first Canadian woman in space (and Dr. Pandya's idol growing up). 

In this episode host Emmett Scanlon meets Nathalie Weadick. Nathalie is the director of the Irish Architecture Foundation (IAF). The IAF is an independent organisation dedicated to the promotion of architecture as culture. In a wide ranging conversation, Nathalie recalls her early career in Visual Arts and as Director of the Butler Gallery in Kilkenny and how she moved into architecture. The conversation covers risk taking, growing a desire for architecture, the impact of public engagement practices and that the time is here for a new "house" for architecture in Ireland. (The podcast was recorded on zoom) About Nathalie Weadick: Nathalie Weadick is a curator of architecture and spatial practice based in Dublin. She has been the director of the Irish Architecture Foundation (IAF) since 2007. Through the IAF she has delivered many initiatives exploring the impact of architecture on society, culture, and history. She initiated the development of a BMX Skate and Play Park, a community-led design project with Dublin City Council, Ballyfermot Community, and architects Relational Urbanism. The framework for this project developed into a national program called Reimagine. She established the ongoing and successful National Architects in Schools Initiative and produces Open House Dublin, Ireland's largest architecture festival engaging thousands annually. From 2013 to 2021 she curated with Arup New Now Next a series of talks in Dublin with David Adjaye, Jeanne Gang, Tatiana Bilbao, Rozana Montiel, Kunle Adeyemi, Workac, Minsuk Cho, Ole Scheeren, Bjarke Ingels, Winy Maas, and Grafton Architects. 2017-2018 she was on the team of assistants to the Curators Shelley McNamara and Yvonne Farrell of the 16th International Architecture Exhibition at Venice. In 2015 she was the Architecture Advisor for Irish Design 2015 and co-curated with Raymund Ryan New Horizon_Architecture from Ireland and presented ten emerging and current Irish practices at the London Festival of Architecture, the Chicago Architecture Biennial, and the Hong Kong/Shenzhen Bi-City Biennale. In 2015/16 she curated We Built This City a series of panel discussions in London, Chicago, and New York about the impact of Irish creativity on global cities. In 2013 she curated The Everyday Experience in the Irish Museum of Modern Art about the impact of architecture on people. In 2008 she co-curated with Prof Hugh Campbell The Lives of Spaces for the Irish Pavilion at the Venice Architecture Biennale and in 2010 she was Commissioner of the Irish exhibition at the Venice Architecture Biennale. 2004-2007 she held the position of Deputy Director at The Architecture Foundation in London and with Director Rowan Moore produced the London Debates in the Turbine Hall TATE Modern. Formerly, she was Director of the Butler Gallery in Kilkenny for five years, where she curated shows by international artists. She has written for many publications on visual arts and architecture. In 2017 she received an Honorary Fellowship from the RIBA. She is currently researching a Ph.D. at RMIT Melbourne and Queens University Belfast, Schools of Architecture. __ Music is by Sinead Finegan, played by the Delmaine String Quartet (Philip Dodd, leader). The podcast was recorded on Zoom in April 2021.

Julie talks to Oli Christie in the second episode of  'Whats in the Goody Bag?' podcasts. She finds out why he moved to the Cotswolds, about his crazy driving  and how he started his company Neon Play.He started as a one man band and has won 17 business awards with over 25 of his games receiving games awards. He has worked closely with the University of Gloucestershire and encourages young talent to be creative. He was awarded an Honorary Fellowship in recognition of his contribution to business, enterprise and innovation.Julie finds out what he does that is non profit making and promotes the Cotswolds whilst spending time volunteering as a Deputy Lord Lieutenant in the County.And the big question.....What does he put in the Goody bag?website: https://www.neonplay.cominstagram: https://instagram.com/neon_playfacebook: https://www.facebook.com/neonplay/twitter: https://twitter.com/neonplay                : https://twitter.com/neonplayoliJoin the conversation oninstagram: https://www.instagram.com/juliekentmbe/twitter: https://twitter.com/juliekentmbe facebook:  https://www.facebook.com/julie.kent.758/#whatsinthegoodybagWebsite: https://juliekentmbe.comSmart Communications SW Ltd. Great offer on card payment solutions. No hidden added charges or minimum monthly spend charge.

Margaret Casely-Hayford was appointed Chair of Shakespeare’s Globe in January 2018, the same year in which she was appointed Chancellor of Coventry University. She has been an elected member of the Board of the Co-op Group since 2016. She was awarded a CBE in the Queen’s Honours list, for services to charity and for promoting diversity, in 2018, upon ending her term as trustee and Chair of international development Charity ActionAid UK., and was awarded an Honorary Fellowship of her former University college: Somerville, Oxford. She’s a trustee of the Radcliffe Trust, which supports the development of skills in classical music and traditional arts and crafts. She chaired a diversity review of the Carnegie and Kate Greenaway Awards for CILIP (the Libraries Association); and served on a panel that oversaw the 2018 strategic review of the British Council, making recommendations to the Foreign Secretary. She was Director of Legal Services and Company Secretary for the John Lewis Partnership for nine years. Before that she worked for twenty years with City law firm Dentons where she had been a partner and jointly led an award-winning team in planning and development work), she’s now retired from executive roles. Her portfolio includes advising young entrepreneurs, and supporting and advising organisations on governance and advising those, in particular women and BAME or LGTBQ+ people, who wish to embark upon board careers. She is passionate about establishing diversity on boards and is an ambassador of Board Apprentice. She champions better governance and democratic processes, and this year, was appointed to the Institute of Directors’ Governance Advisory Board, and made a Fellow of the Institute of Public Impact. Her passion for education sees her also as Chair of the Advisory Board of award-winning Ultra Education, an enterprise which provides teaching of entrepreneurial skills to primary school children; and as Patron of the John Staples Society a body created across the Leathersellers’ Federation of Schools, to develop social mobility by providing opportunities and access. She is also a member of the Rhodes Commission looking at the future of the statue of Cecil Rhodes and the impact of his legacy. Top Tip- leadership strapline would be: Redress the imbalance, and all else will follow#InspiringLeadership #leadership #CEOs #MotivationalSpeaker #teamcoach #Boards See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Dawn is Chair of the Kiln Theatre in London, and Vice Chair of the London Marathon Charitable Trust.  She is a Director of the Food, Farming and Countryside Commission (FFCC) and a member of the Advisory Boards of the Institute of Policy Research at the University of Bath and RAND Europe. Dawn was the Chief Executive of The National Lottery Community Fund from 2013-2020 where she responsible for the effective distribution of c£600m of National Lottery funding each year and for delivering the Fund's Strategic Framework, People in the Lead.Prior to joining the Fund, Dawn was Chief Executive of the Esmée Fairbairn Foundation and was previously Deputy Director of the British Museum, Project Director for Tate Modern and a Principal Consultant at KPMG. She began her career in fringe theatre.She was previously a Trustee of the Historic Royal Palaces and of the Woodland Trust. She has an MBA from the London Business School and an honorary doctorate from London Metropolitan University.  She was awarded an Honorary Fellowship by Queen Mary University in 2019 where she also chairs SKETCH, a student led initiative to develop local social enterprises.In her spare time she gardens, practices yoga badly, and is a dedicated Gooner. 

The Anthony Walker Foundation is set to launch a new hate crime reporting tool as part of its ‘Speak Out! Stop Hate.' campaign, in response to the worrying number of instances of hate crime that go unreported nationally. This Sunday February 21st would have been Anthony Walker's 34th birthday.  We spoke to his sister Dominique about how Anthony is living through her and her incredible work tackling hate crime, celebrating diversity and empowering communities across Merseyside and beyond.  Since Anthony's death Dominique has been a detective with Merseyside Police, heading up their hate crime investigation's unit, she was awarded an Honorary Fellowship from Liverpool John Moores University, gained two degrees and of course, together with her mum Gee and family, set up the Anthony Walker Foundation.  In this captivating discussion with The Guide Liverpool's Jay Hynd Dominique tells us what drives her to continue the fight against racism and hate crime, explains how prejudice develops within a person, gives examples of resources that we can all use to continue the Black Lives Matter movement ourselves whilst learning about the fight along the way, and of course she also reflects on her life with Anthony and the legacy he has left behind.  You can find out more about the Anthony Walker Foundation and the new Speak Out Stop Hate! Campaign here. https://theguideliverpool.com/anthony-walker-foundation-launches-hate-crime-prevention-campaign-as-more-cases-reported/

In this episode the lovely Sheena Byrom joins us to talk about midwifery, maternity services and the current challenges midwives are facing working during the pandemic. Sheena was awarded an OBE in 2011 for services to midwifery, and received an Honorary Fellowship of the Royal College of Midwives in 2015. In 2016 she was delighted to receive an Honorary Doctorate from Bournemouth University. You can find out more about Sheena on her website: www.sheenabyrom.com/ Sheena has written several books: Catching Babies, her midwife memoirs. She jointly edited The Roar Behind the Silence: why kindness, compassion and respect matter in maternity care with Professor Soo Downe OBE. She joined forces with Soo again with Squaring the Circle: researching normal birth in a technological world which was published in June 2019. Sheena and her daughter, Anna, set up All 4 Maternity, the home of The Practising Midwife publication - find out more here: www.all4maternity.com/ Follow Sheena on social media @sheena_byrom

Choroidal naevi can be difficult to distinguish from melanomas, which means that many patients with benign tumours are referred to hospital eye clinics while urgent treatment of those with melanoma is delayed. In this episode of the College's podcast, Optometry in Practice Editorial Board member, Dr Lindsay Rountree MCOptom talks to Professor Bertil Damato PhD FRCOphth FCOptom about a scoring system to estimate the likelihood of malignancy, and how to manage patients accordingly. Professor Damato is a Senior Clinical Research Fellow at the University of Oxford and Honorary Consultant Ophthalmologist at Oxford Eye Hospital. He was awarded Honorary Fellowship of the College in 2010 in recognition of his outstanding contribution to ocular oncology. Dr Rountree is Lecturer in Optometry at the University of Bradford. To read the full paper and gain one non-interactive CET point until 28 February 2022, visit: https://www.college-optometrists.org/oip-resource/the-moles-acronym-scoring-system-and-protocol-for-managing-patients-with-melanocytic-choroidal-tumours.html More Optometry in Practice articles are available from www.college-optometrists.org/oip --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/collegeofoptometrists/message

Chong Chan-Yau is the CEO of CarbonCare InnoLab, the President of the Hong Kong Blind Union, former Chairman and current Director of The Board of the Dialogue in the Dark Hong Kong Foundation, former Chairman of and current Board Director of Carbon Care Asia, former Executive Director of Oxfam Hong Kong. He has received many awards including Ten Outstanding Young Persons Award, MBE, China Poverty Alleviation Award, and Honorary Fellowship from the University of Hong Kong. Chan-Yau grew up in Kowloon City, Hong Kong and became blind at the age of 6. However, Chan-Yau has never allowed his blindness to hold him back from defying society's expectations & creating great impact whether it's in the area of fighting for equal rights for the disabled to combating global poverty and climate change. In this STIMY episode, we discuss: * 1:41: Growing up in a large family of 10 in Kowloon City, Hong Kong * 3:49: Going blind at the age of 6 * 7:37: Studying at the Ebenezer School for the Blind & why it took 1 year for his family to decide to let him go (including learning Braille) * 9:28: What it's like learning Braille * 12:03: Being rebellious & defying expectations of what being blind could do as students * 16:04: Aspiring to further education & not doing what was expected of blind people then (being telephone operators or fortune tellers) * 20:44: What drove Chan-Yau to constantly prove others wrong, that “ our ability is not affected by our blindness ” * 21:39: Attending regular school & receiving assistance from Sister Moira of the Maryknoll Convent School * 25:10: Entering the University of Hong Kong as one of its first blind students * 27:07: Petitioning the Governor of Hong Kong to provide more equal rights and opportunities to blind people * 30:44: Studying at the London School of Economics * 33:35: Becoming the first Hong Kong government administrative officer * 34:48: Reason for joining Oxfam and becoming the Director of Fundraising * 36:06: How Chan-Yau developed the monthly donor base for Oxfam Hong Kong from 3000 to over 100,000 * 39:47: Developing Oxfam rice & why rice was the medium chosen * 42:07: The development of rights of the blind in Hong Kong * 44:48: Founding the Dialogue in the Dark Hong Kong * 46:40: How can employers create a more inclusive workplace for the blind? * 48:31: Entering the climate change space Show notes: https://www.sothisismywhy.com/25

June joins me on the podcast to talk about her initiative "Mums in Tech", her recently awarded MBE and what its like to me a mom, employee and entrepreneur.You’ll Learn:Why Moms in Tech Finding your path when you are raising a familyWhy being a mom doesn't have to mean an end of your careerAbout June AngelidesInvestor, Entrepreneur and SpeakerBorn in London and raised in Lagos, June joined Samos Investments in 2018, investing in high growth European businesses. Prior to this, she started the first child-friendly coding school in the UK, Mums in Tech, which taught over 250 women to code in 3 years. She also held roles on the Venture Debt Team and Early Stage Banking Team at Silicon Valley Bank. An active part of the tech and startup ecosystem, she is on the advisory board of mentoring app, Cajigo, a mentor at Oxford University and runs mentoring circles for founders and aspiring VCs. She is a judge on the Debut Sessions, a monthly pitch session for founders seeking seed investment. She is passionate about flexible working and getting more women and girls into tech. She is a contributor at The Financial Times. She has been named by the Financial Times as the 6th Most Influential Tech Leader and by Computer Weekly as one of the most Influential Women in Tech. June recently received an Honorary Fellowship at the Institute of Engineering and Technology and was awarded an MBE for services to women in technology.

Support the show by dropping us a rating and review on Apple Podcast! Music: “Daydream” by Ash. Available on Spotify, Apple Music & Anghami. Dr Loza is a licensed, British trained psychiatrist with over twenty years of experience. He is the director of The Behman Psychiatric Hospital in Helwan, Egypt, and of the Maadi Psychology Centre, Egypt, and practices from several Behman Psychological Consultation clinic locations in Cairo and the International Clinic in London. Dr Loza completed his medical training at Cairo University in 1981 and continued his training in psychiatry at the Institute of Psychiatry & the Maudsley Hospital in London. He became a Member of the Royal College of Psychiatrists in 1987 and a Fellow in 1995. He was awarded the Honorary Fellowship of the College in 2015. Dr Loza is a member of American and Egyptian Psychiatric Associations and chair of the Arab Board of Psychiatry. He is a member of the editorial board of The Arab Journal of Psychiatry and The British Journal of Psychiatry (International). Additionally, he is Chairman of the Middle East Division of the Royal College of Psychiatrists.   Timestamps: [00:00 to 06:26] Introduction and My Personal Story with Dr.Nasser    [06:56] “Most special interview in my career”   [08:00] Facing Denial & Realisations developing symptoms of COVID-19.    [13:00] Experiencing COVID-19 as a World Leader in Mental Health    [16:00] Depression is a painful condition..   [19:00] The Impact of COVID-19 on the World and The New Normal..   [24:00] How to Adapt to Life in 2020    [26:00] The Reality of Death..    [24:00] A powerful analogy and Arabic Proverb on Life    [27:30] The one main lesson for all youth leaders..   [32:30] OUTRO - Give us a rating & review us on Apple Podcasts!! Did you enjoy today's episode? Are you subscribed to the show?   I'd love to hear from you!   Tune in daily and follow me here @allysalama and @empathyalwaywins for more on the show's latest updates.   Show Credits   Empathy Always Wins: The World's Exclusive Youth Leadership Podcast on Empathy & Community Building.   © Ally Salama 2020.

Support the show by dropping us a rating and review on Apple Podcast! Music: “Daydream” by Ash. Available on Spotify, Apple Music & Anghami. Dr Loza is a licensed, British trained psychiatrist with over twenty years of experience. He is the director of The Behman Psychiatric Hospital in Helwan, Egypt, and of the Maadi Psychology Centre, Egypt, and practices from several Behman Psychological Consultation clinic locations in Cairo and the International Clinic in London. Dr Loza completed his medical training at Cairo University in 1981 and continued his training in psychiatry at the Institute of Psychiatry & the Maudsley Hospital in London. He became a Member of the Royal College of Psychiatrists in 1987 and a Fellow in 1995. He was awarded the Honorary Fellowship of the College in 2015. Dr Loza is a member of American and Egyptian Psychiatric Associations and chair of the Arab Board of Psychiatry. He is a member of the editorial board of The Arab Journal of Psychiatry and The British Journal of Psychiatry (International). Additionally, he is Chairman of the Middle East Division of the Royal College of Psychiatrists.   Timestamps: [00:00 to 06:26] Introduction and My Personal Story with Dr.Nasser    [06:56] “Most special interview in my career”   [08:00] Facing Denial & Realisations developing symptoms of COVID-19.    [13:00] Experiencing COVID-19 as a World Leader in Mental Health    [16:00] Depression is a painful condition..   [19:00] The Impact of COVID-19 on the World and The New Normal..   [24:00] How to Adapt to Life in 2020    [26:00] The Reality of Death..    [24:00] A powerful analogy and Arabic Proverb on Life    [27:30] The one main lesson for all youth leaders..   [32:30] OUTRO - Give us a rating & review us on Apple Podcasts!! Did you enjoy today's episode? Are you subscribed to the show?   I'd love to hear from you!   Tune in daily and follow me herehttps://www.instagram.com/allysalama/ ( @allysalama) andhttps://www.instagram.com/empathyalwayswins/ ( @empathyalwaywins) for more on the show's latest updates.   Show Credits   Empathy Always Wins: The World's Exclusive Youth Leadership Podcast on Empathy & Community Building.   © Ally Salama 2020.

Susan Greenfield has been awarded 32 Honorary Degrees from British and foreign universities and in 2000 was elected to an Honorary Fellowship of the Royal College of Physicians. Susan was both an undergraduate and graduate at Oxford University, taking a DPhil in the Department of Pharmacology in 1977. Each of us has a unique, subjective inner world, one that we can never share directly with anyone else. But how do our physical brains actually give rise to this rich and varied experience of consciousness? In this ground-breaking episode, internationally acclaimed neuroscientist Susan Greenfield brings together a series of astonishing new, empirically-based insights into consciousness as she traces a single day in the life of your brain. Greenfield explores how our daily experiences are translated into a tangle of cells, molecules, and chemical blips, thereby probing the enduring mystery of how our brains create our individual selves.

In episode 127 UNP founder and curator Grant Scott is in his shed marking the death of Harry Evans and his importance to photography, rejecting the need to label photographers by practice and celebrating the serendipity of consequence.  Plus this week photographer Clare Strand takes on the challenge of supplying Grant with an audio file no longer than 5 minutes in length in which she answer's the question ‘What Does Photography Mean to You?' Clare Strand is a British conceptual photographer based in Brighton and Hove, England. Her photography has been published in the Gone Astray, 2003, Clare Strand: Photoworks Monograph, 2009, Skirts, 2013 and Girl Plays with Snake, 2016. Strands work has been widely exhibited in venues such as The Centre Pompidou, Tate Britain, Salzburg Museum of Modern Art and the Victoria and Albert Museum. Her work is held in the collections of MOMA, SFMoma, The Center Pompidou, The British Council, The Arts Council; The NY Public Library and Cornell University.  In 2019 she was nominated for the Deutsche Börse Photography Foundation Prize and awarded an Honorary Fellowship of the Royal Photographic Society. Clare is also one half of the collaborative partnership MacDonaldStrand  and Head of the Intangiable for The Institute of Unnecessary Research. Clare Strand is a British conceptual photographer based in Brighton and Hove, England. Her photography has been published in the Gone Astray, 2003, Clare Strand: Photoworks Monograph, 2009, Skirts, 2013 and Girl Plays with Snake, 2016. Strands work has been widely exhibited in venues such as The Centre Pompidou, Tate Britain, Salzburg Museum of Modern Art and the Victoria and Albert Museum. Her work is held in the collections of MOMA, SFMoma, The Center Pompidou, The British Council, The Arts Council; The NY Public Library and Cornell University.  In 2019 she was nominated for the Deutsche Börse Photography Foundation Prize and awarded an Honorary Fellowship of the Royal Photographic Society. Clare is also one half of the collaborative partnership MacDonaldStrand  and Head of the Intangiable for The Institute of Unnecessary Research.

The Game Changers podcast celebrates those true pioneers in education who are building schools for tomorrow. In the eighth episode of the third series of the Game Changers podcast, we talk with Yasodai Selvakumaran, Teacher Ambassador for the New South Wales Department of Education and Relieving Head Teacher Professional Practice and Humanities Teacher at Rooty Hill High School in Sydney's West. In 2019, Yasodai was a top ten finalist for the Varkey Foundation's $1 million Global Teacher Prize. She was recently awarded an Honorary Fellowship from Western Sydney University for a "sustained and significant contribution to Education in Western Sydney". Additionally, Yasodai was recognised as one of 30 rising stars under the age of 35 in Australian education by The Educator Australia magazine. In this episode, Yasodai speaks about the joy of education, the importance of humour in the classroom, and teaching students to thrive past what may be expected of them. The Game Changers podcast is produced by Oliver Cummins for Orbital Productions, supported by a School for tomorrow (aSchoolfortomorrow.com), and powered by CIRCLE by CIRCLE – The Centre for Innovation, Research, Creativity and Leadership in Education (www.circle.education). The podcast is hosted on SoundCloud and distributed through Spotify, Google Play, and Apple Podcasts. Please subscribe and tell your friends you like what you are hearing. You can contact us at gamechangers@circle.education, on Twitter and Instagram via @GameChangersPC, and you can also connect with Philip SA Cummins and Adriano Di Prato via LinkedIn. Adriano loves his insta and tweets a lot; Phil posts videos to YouTube. GameChangers

In this episode I will have the honor to talk to Darren Heath. I guess he does not need any long introduction. Darren is a multi award winning photographer, shooting F1. In 2005 The Royal Photographic Society awarded Darren their prestigious Honorary Fellowship as recognition of his excellence and evidence of distinguished ability in his chosen field. If you read the caption on his instagram profile, it just sums it up all: "32nd yr shooting F1 in a creative, artistic, original & unique style that’s changed the photographic perception of the sport". That's exactly what it is going to be all about. All about F1, all about the ability to shoot in a different artistic way even though he has been in all the tracks multiple times, about how the photography has changed over the years he has been in the business, about he business side of the photography and many other topics. I believe we could talk for hours and it would still not be enough. Enjoy!

In episode 108 UNP founder and curator Grant Scott is in his shed considering the photographic response to isolation, the importance of the client relationship and the reality of commissioned photography. Plus this week photographer Jason Bell takes on the challenge of supplying Grant with an audio file no longer than 5 minutes in length in which he answer's the question ‘What Does Photography Mean to You?' Jason Bell was born in Camden, London, in 1969 and was given his first camera at the age of 5. He decided on a career as a portrait photographer whilst studying Politics, Philosophy and Economics at Oxford University, from which he graduated in 1990. His work has since appeared in publications including Vanity Fair and Vogue, featuring celebrities such as Angelina Jolie, Leonardo DiCaprio, Scarlett Johansson, Johnny Depp, Nicole Kidman, Tilda Swinton, Eddie Redmayne, and Kate Winslet. Jason has shot numerous film, theatre and TV campaigns, including Netflix's The Crown, Billy Elliot, About A Boy and Love Actually. Many of his photographs have been acquired by the National Portrait Gallery for their permanent collection and his work has received critical acclaim including the Royal Photographic Society's Terence Donovan Award for an outstanding contribution to photography, the New York Photo Awards' Best Advertising Image and the Best British Black & White Photographer at the British Picture Editors' Awards. His Out 100 Portfolio was one of five finalists in the American Society of Magazine Editors' 2010 National Magazine Awards. He has published four books of his work, the most recent being An Englishman in New York. A selection of photographs from the book was exhibited at the National Portrait Gallery in London. In 2011 he was awarded an Honorary Fellowship of The Royal Photographic Society. Jason lives in New York and London. www.jasonbellphoto.com If you have enjoyed this podcast why not check out our A Photographic Life Podcast Plus. Created as a learning resource that places the power of learning into the hands of the learner. To suggest where you can go, what you can read, who you can discover and what you can question to further your own knowledge, experience and enjoyment of photography. It will be inspiring, informative and enjoyable! You can find out here: www.patreon.com/aphotographiclifepodcast You can also access and subscribe to these podcasts at SoundCloud https://soundcloud.com/unofphoto on iTunes https://itunes.apple.com/gb/podcast/a-photographic-life/id1380344701 on Player FM https://player.fm/series/a-photographic-life and Podbean www.podbean.com/podcast-detail/i6uqx-6d9ad/A-Photographic-Life-Podcast Grant Scott is the founder/curator of United Nations of Photography, a Senior Lecturer and Subject Co-ordinator: Photography at Oxford Brookes University, Oxford, a working photographer, and the author of Professional Photography: The New Global Landscape Explained (Focal Press 2014) and The Essential Student Guide to Professional Photography (Focal Press 2015). His book New Ways of Seeing: The Democratic Language of Photography was published by Bloomsbury Academic in 2019. His documentary film, Do Not Bend: The Photographic Life of Bill Jay can now be seen at www.youtube.com/watch?v=wd47549knOU&t=3915s. © Grant Scott 2020

Meet our guest: Professor Gina Rippon. She is Emeritus Professor of Cognitive Neuroimaging at the Aston Brain Centre, Aston University, Birmingham. She is a past-President of the British Association of Cognitive Neuroscience and, in 2015, was awarded an Honorary Fellowship of the British Science Association. Her research involves state-of-the-art brain imaging techniques to investigate developmental disorders such as dyslexia and autism. She has received funding from The Medical Research Council, The Wellcome Foundation, The Nuffield Foundation, Economic and Social Sciences Research Council, Biological and Behavioural Sciences Research Council, She also investigates the use of neuroscience techniques to explore social processes including gender stereotyping and stereotype threat. She is an outspoken critic of 'neurotrash', the populist (mis)use of neuroscience research to (mis)represent our understanding of the brain and, most particularly, to prop up outdated gender stereotypes. Her book on this topic ‘The Gendered Brain', published by Bodley Head and Penguin Random House, came out in February 2019. She is currently serving on the Fawcett Society Commission which will be reporting on the effect of gender stereotyping in the early years in 2020. She works with organisations such as WISE and Speakers4Schools and the European Union to address the issue of the under-representation of women in science. Some great takeaways from Gina:Knowing one's gender is not informative in terms of understanding what the size of that part of the brain it's going to be Destinations, where people are being led to, is not positive for everybody It isn't about gender differences, it's about how we are conditioned to beWhatever you will put your focus on, will grow. ______________________________________Grab the book THE GENDERED BRAIN Gina talks about here! The Change Makers are doing a fundraiser for their #NoMoreBoxes Online Training and Collaboratory Center. A platform designed to teach you how to create safe space for deep-dive conversations that open up for the conscious and unconscious bias behaviours, placing ourselves and others into boxes, that places our focus on what separates us as human beings, not what unites us. Your help is highly appreciated.Just go to www.Patreon.com/NoMoreBoxes today! Or grab a copy of their book; The Story of Boxes, The Good, The Bad and The Ugly. I want to connect with Runa MAKE SURE YOU DON'T MISS AN EPISODE OF THE CHANGE MAKERS PODCASTSUBSCRIBE TO OUR CHANNEL ON APPLE PODCAST, STITCHER or SPOTIFY The Change Makers Podcast RSS Subscribe to The Change Makers Podcast Get the latest transformational out-of-the-box Leadership and Communications Tips, Insights, Tools & Stories from other change makers delivered directly to your inbox. First Name Last Name Email Address Sign Up We respect your privacy. Thank you!Please check your inbox for an email from me, Rúna Magnúsdóttir. Inside that email is a link to verify your subscription.Looking forward to having you onboard.My bestRuna

Join Skye Gyngell, our Culinary Director and Spring Restaurant Chef, in conversation with Darina Allen, who owns and runs the internationally renowned Ballymaloe Cookery School in Co. Cork, Ireland. They talk all things food - from great recipes and writing cookbooks to the wonders of bio-dynamic food and fermentation - with chef Jordan Bourke. After establishing the Ballymaloe Cookery School in 1983, Darina went on to author such classics as Simply Delicious, Simply Delicious France and Italy, and A Year at Ballymaloe Cookery School. Winner of numerous awards, including the 2018 Gourmand World Cookbook Award, she received an Honorary Fellowship of the Dublin Gastronomy Symposium in recognition of a lifetime’s dedication and work promoting Irish gastronomy, food history and culture and the Veuve Clicquot Business Woman of the Year 2001. Website: www.cookingisfun.ie Jordan is a chef, award-winning author and broadcaster. Having trained at the Ballymaloe Cookery School in his native Ireland, he went on to work under the Michelin star chef Skye Gyngell. From there he worked in kitchens in Seoul, Korea, which led to the publication of his cookbook ‘Our Korean Kitchen’ (co authored with his wife Rejina Pyo). Jordan is a columnist for Waitrose Food magazine, with 12 new seasonal recipes each month. He is also a panelist on BBC radio 4's The Kitchen Cabinet and guest presenter on BBC 1's Saturday Kitchen. He is the recipient of both the Fortnum & Mason Food & Drink Award and the Observer Food Monthly Award. Jordan lives in London with his wife and son.

This episode, I’m talking about one of the fundamental cornerstones that underpins everything we do as growers - soil. And to talk about this vital element, who better than soil scientist and international expert on the subject, Tim O’Hare? Tim is the principal consultant of Tim O’Hare Associates and works on a wide variety of domestic and commercial projects, both in the UK and abroad. Tim answers questions about issues that most gardeners have faced at some point; soil compaction, poor drainage, working with the soil you have and what to look out for if you’re bringing new soil in to your garden. As well as possessing phenomenal knowledge on the subject, Tim explains things in clear and simple language and you will enjoy this episode whatever your level of gardening expertise.  About Tim O’Hare Tim is the principal consultant of Tim O’Hare Associates, a leading independent soil science practice that provides soil investigation, testing and consultancy services to the landscape industry. He has been a Soil Scientist for over 20 years, working on anything from domestic garden projects to major construction developments.  Tim and his team have worked on a wide variety of assignments throughout the UK and internationally, including the London Olympic Park and Commonwealth Park in Gibraltar. They also test and approve many of the topsoil and subsoil products that are sold into the landscape market nationwide.   Earlier this year Tim was awarded an Honorary Fellowship by The Kew Guild (Association of Alumni of the Royal Botanic Gardens Kew) for his “outstanding contribution to the environment”. We discuss: Common problems with soil management Storing and moving soil during building works Soil compaction Wet soils Ways to combat poorly draining soils Bringing life into new or damaged soils The impacts of transporting soil into and away from a site What to look for when you’re buying soil Soil contamination Tim’s more challenging/unusual work Soil erosion and the shape of our future food production Links: Tim O’Hare Associates - Soil & Landscape Consultancy www.timohare-associates.com  London Olympic Park www.queenelizabetholympicpark.co.uk  Get in touch; Email podcast@rootsandall.co.uk  Website www.rootsandall.co.uk  Twitter @rootsandall Instagram rootsandallpod Patreon Link; Help us keep the podcast free & independent! Donate as much or as little as you like at https://www.patreon.com/rootsandall 

Born in 1960, Rosie’s impairment is four-limbed Phocomelia caused by the drug Thalidomide. After graduating with a BSc., (Hons) Degree in Psychology through Cardiff University in 1985, Rosie joined the Civil Service and remained with the Department of Trade and Industry at Companies House Cardiff until 1993 at Executive Officer level. In 1995 Rosie formed the RMS Disability Issues Consultancy, out of a genuine desire to deliver first-class training in the field of Disability Equality and Disability Issues. Rosie received an OBE in the Queen’s New Years Honours List in 2015, “For Services to the Equality and the Rights of Disabled People.” Rosie was awarded an Honorary Fellowship from Cardiff University in 2017. Married, with one son, Rosie has a particular interest in radio, television and the arts.  Rosie has been the subject of several documentaries. She has worked with the BBC, Sky and ITV, and can be heard regularly on BBC Radio Wales.  She is a freelance TV and Radio Presenter. Links: Single use flexible straws Folding shelf for eating in restaurants  Fork holder with a magnet, use cheap cutlery  Mount n mover https://www.mountnmover.com/

Dartmouth Films presents, Five Seasons: The Gardens of Piet Oudolf. Directed by Thomas Piper which Premieres in the UK at Picturehouse Central, 13 June 2019. On todays episode Thomas talks with Peter Donegan. The Sodshow is available weekly in iTunes, spotify, Youtube and all good podcast stores.  Five Seasons: The Gardens of Piet Oudolf is an immersion in the life and work of the most influential landscape designer of the last 50 years. Piet is responsible for New York’s High Line and many other iconic urban spaces. Closer home, Piet designed the landscaping for the entire site at Hauser & Wirth Somerset. He is in great demand for his revolutionary ideas of what gardens and public spaces can be, and the impact they can have. More than just a movie for gardeners, Five Seasons changes the way all of us think about and ultimately see beauty itself. The Sodshow: Twitter: @sodshow facebook: The Sodshow instagram: sodshow About Five Seasons: Celebrated by gardeners for his revolutionary designs, by ecologists for his significant contributions to bio-diversity, by horticulturalists and botanists for his unrivalled knowledge of plants, and by the art, design and fashion worlds for his innovative aesthetics, Piet Oudolf has achieved a level of influence and cultural relevance, rarely, if ever, attained by, in his own words, a modest plantsman. Over the course of the documentary, Piet leads filmmaker Thomas Piper and his camera on a wandering journey, visiting many of his iconic works, including his own garden in Holland and the great public works in New York, Chicago, and the UK, as well as far-flung sources of inspiration, from German industrial parks to the deep woods of Pennsylvania, and a Texas wildflower explosion. In between travel, we are afforded an exclusive look at the entire process of creating a garden — from winter studio sketches to foggy spring planting and, finally, a late September opening celebration — all through a single project, what Piet now refers to as his masterpiece, the 7000 square metre public garden for the art gallery, Hauser & Wirth Somerset. With meditative cinematography and intimate conversations, Five Seasons follows Piet over the course of a year, a structure that accentuates the element of time in Piet’s designs. Beginning in late autumn, the remnants of summer opulence in his gardens give way to the ‘skeletons’ and seed heads of winter. With spring, the cycle begins again, through the peak of summer flowers, and by the return of fall, a complex subject has helped us to appreciate his complex work, forever changing the way we see the world around us. Piet Oudolf: Piet Oudolf was born in 1944 in Haarlem, Netherlands. Since 1982, he has lived and worked in Hummelo, a tiny village in east Netherlands, where he started a nursery with his wife Anja, to grow perennials. His garden has since become renowned for its radical approach and ideas about planting design. Oudolf also co-founded Future Plants, a company specialising in selecting, growing, breeding and protecting plants for landscaping and public areas. Oudolf’s recent public projects include No. 5 Culture Chanel, Paris, France; The High Line, New York NY; Lurie Garden, Millennium Park, Chicago IL; Serpentine Gallery, London, England, and the Venice Biennale, Venice, Italy. Oudolf is also a successful author, having co-written numerous books such as; “Planting: A New Perspective” (2013); “Landscape in Landscapes” (2011); “Gardening with Grasses” (1998); “Designing with Plants and Planting Design” (1999); “Dream Plants for the Natural Garden” (2000); “Planting the Natural Garden” (2003), and “Planting Design: Gardens in Time and Space” (2005). In his 35-year career, Oudolf has achieved international acclaim, and has recently been awarded an Honorary Fellowship from RIBA for developing radical ideas in Planting Design (2012) and the Prince Bernhard Cultural Foundation Award (2013). Thomas Piper: Thomas Piper is an award-winning non-fiction filmmaker, specialising in documenting the contemporary arts. He holds the role of Director of Production for Checkerboard Films, and has directed, photographed and edited more than 25 films on contemporary painters, sculptors, photographers, architects, and writers. His 2008 film, Ellsworth Kelly: Fragments, won the Best Film for Television award at the prestigious International Festival of Films on Art (FIFA) in Montreal. As an independent producer, he was commissioned by the Guggenheim Museum to make Art, Architecture, and Innovation: Celebrating the Guggenheim Museum, a documentary marking the 50th anniversary of the Frank Lloyd Wright museum building. He is currently in production on a documentary about the cult architecture firm, Lot-ek. His feature length documentary, Diller Scofidio + Renfro: Reimagining Lincoln Center and the High Line, was broadcast on PBS affiliates around the US, and accepted over 25 festivals around the world. Other subjects have included the artists Sol Lewitt and Kiki Smith, the writer James Salter, the art historian Vincent Scully, the architects Peter Eisenman, Steven Holl, Jean Nouvel and Thom Mayne, and MacArthur “genius” grant winner, Jeanne Gang.

Marcus Fairs is the founder of the website Dezeen - a portmanteau of design and magazine. With 2.5 million monthly users, Dezeen is widely regarded as one of the most influential and popular design website in the world. Marcus Fairs tells the fascinating story of how Dezeen came about and how it has developed over the years, including their first ever award program celebrating the world's best architecture, interiors and design. Marcus himself has won numerous awards over the years, and he is the first digital journalist to be awarded an Honorary Fellowship of the Royal Institute of British Architects.      

We’re 40! How did that happen? We grew up so quickly….. It doesn’t seem like two minutes ago that Bradley and I recorded the first, very shaky and nervous, episode back in January 2018. A lot has changed since then.Outerfocus started as a way to introduce some photography history, in an easily digestible manner, and to have conversations with photographers, about photography. The two things that helped me most with my own photography were: An understanding of where photography came from, and, what drove photographers to practice. Although the photography history aspect of the podcast has dwindled somewhat in the past few months, I feel the conversations are becoming stronger, and that takes us on to the, ‘why’. The, ‘why’, is what helped me to understand myself and the world around me. I learned more about photography by understanding the philosophies of photographers than I did by looking at their photographs. It made me realise that the idea is important, and the photograph is just a consequence of our study and practice. Maybe not for everyone, but that’s how I came to understand it and it fundamentally changed me as a human being. It also freed me from not just the constraints of industry expectations, but societal expectations, too. So, Happy 40th to Outerfocus! I hope that me passing on some of what I think is important in photography, and life, can raise some questions and create some new ideas for you. I’m not doing this alone mind you. The guests are adding their own unique perspective to the Outerfocus archive, and I’m still learning, a lot, and long may that continue.I expect you all know of the photographers that had an influence on me, but there are some that never really get a mention. Mostly because the genres they work in don’t come up in conversation too frequently. I mean, name one architectural photographer…….I could easily name a few, but that’s because it’s something I have a great interest in. I know who the first one would be, though, and when it comes to individuality there aren’t many better than the rather exceptional, Hélène Binet.Hélène is a Swiss-French architectural photographer living in London, and she is one of the leading architectural photographers in the world. Best known for her work with architects Daniel Libeskind, Peter Zumthor and Zaha Hadid, she has published books on works of several architects. She is the recipient of many awards over her 30+ year career including an Honorary Fellowship of Royal Institute of British Architects, 2008.Most recently she was honored with the Julius Shulman Institute Excellence in Photography Award in 2015, The Ada Louise Huxtable Prize 2019 ..........Full show notes -

Brian Mulligan, Founder of the Mulligan Concept & Mobilizations with Movement, comes onto HET Podcast to share his insight and advice to the global physiotherapy profession. Brian also shares his story about how mobilizations with movement started along with what it was like to learn from some of the other great names in physiotherapy and much more. Mulligan Concept Website: https://bmulligan.com/  The Mulligan Concept App: https://www.mulliganconceptapp.com/  IFOMPT 2016 Geoff Maitland Lecture featuring Brian Mulligan: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=APJdM4cH_eo&t=1496s  "The Mulligan Concept of Manual Therapy: Textbook of Techniques": https://www.amazon.com/Mulligan-Concept-Manual-Therapy-Techniques/dp/0729541592?keywords=mulligan&qid=1540701905&sr=8-6&ref=sr_1_6  "Manual Therapy: NAGS, SNAGS, MWMS etc" 6th Edition by Brian Mulligan: https://www.amazon.com/Manual-Therapy-Nags-Snags-853-6/dp/1877520039?keywords=mulligan&qid=1540701818&sr=8-2&ref=sr_1_2  Mulligan Mobilization Pads: https://www.amazon.com/OPTP-Mulligan-Mobilisation-Pads-342/dp/B00E3FTRKC?keywords=mulligan&qid=1540701905&sr=8-13&ref=sr_1_13  Mulligan Mobilization Belt: https://www.amazon.com/OPTP-Mulligan-Mobilisation-Belt-635/dp/B002C9GNTY?keywords=mulligan&qid=1540701905&sr=8-4&ref=sr_1_4  Mulligan Self SNAG Cervical Strap: https://www.amazon.com/OPTP-Mulligan-Cervical-Strap-633/dp/B002C9GITO?keywords=mulligan&qid=1540701905&sr=8-7&ref=sr_1_7  Mulligan Concept International Facebook Group: https://www.facebook.com/MulliganConceptInternational/  Mulligan Concept Facebook Page: https://www.facebook.com/mulligandk/ The PT Hustle Website: https://www.thepthustle.com/  Schedule an Appointment with Kyle Rice: www.passtheptboards.com    HET LITE Tool: www.pteducator.com/het      Anywhere Healthcare: https://anywhere.healthcare/ (code: HET)   Biography: Brian trained as a physiotherapist at the NZ School of Physiotherapy and qualified in 1954. Two years later he commenced in private practice in Wellington where he remained until 2000 when he finally retired from active clinical practice. Brian's special interest has always been manual therapy since being introduced to the field by Stanley Paris in the early 1960s. He acknowledges as his mentor, Freddy Kaltenborn, but has also found invaluable the contributions of James Cyriax, Geoff Maitland, Robin McKenzie and Robert Elvey. Brian was one of small group of physiotherapists who formed the NZ Manipulative Therapists Association in 1968. He and his colleague, Robin McKenzie, were the principle teachers on the newly formed Post graduate program for the Diploma of Manipulative Therapy. Brian joined the international lecturing circuit in 1972. Currently he has taught in 91 cities in the United States of America and 20 countries of the world. In 1983 Brian relinquished his teaching role on the Diploma programme and began teaching his newly-founded techniques. One of his initial students, Barbara Hetherington, took over his Diploma programme teaching role. She later became one of his original teachers when the Mulligan Concept Teachers Association was formed in 1996. Brian's favorite quote has always been Louis Pasteur's; “In the field of discovery chance only favours the prepared mind” Hundreds of  articles supporting Brian's MWM techniques have been published in scientific journals from around the world. A regularly updated reference section is available on this web site.   Brian has been the recipient of many awards: Honorary Fellowship of the NZ Society of Physiotherapists (1996) Honorary Life Membership of the NZ Society of Physiotherapists (1996) Honorary Life Membership of the NZ Manipulative Therapists Association (1993) Honorary Membership of the NZ College of Physiotherapy (1998) Ball Dynamics Award for Excellence in a Published Case Study (1997) Award of Excellence of the World Confederation of Physical Therapists (2007).

In today’s episode, your host Jay Dhillon interviews Top 100 influencer and British entrepreneur, founder of healthcare support service Oberoi Consulting, public speaker and Secret Millionaire, Kavita Oberoi OBE Kavita Oberoi is one of the UK's most highly regarded successful entrepreneurs and social philanthropists, with a multi-million-pound business portfolio and a net-worth of over £10 million. Jay and Kavita discuss the vital ingredients needed, to be successful in business and the skills you need to develop in order to make it to the top. Tune in today to hear Kavita’s inspiring rise to success and learn how you too, can start, grow and scale your own business, with the right knowledge, passion and people around you. KEY TAKEAWAYS Jay: What did University teach you? Kavita: For me, if I’m doing something, I always have the self-motivation to go to the top. You need to keep the right company around you and in my case, the people around me were all hard working and focused, and it rubbed off on me. At University you need to be passionate about what you’re doing and achieve your goals. Jay: What are your thoughts on sales? Kavita: Business is about people, so you have to be a good people person and sales teaches you about being knocked down and trying again. It teaches you resilience and anywhere in which you can experience it teaches you a lot. Jay: What was the transition from your medical sales job to set up a business? Kavita: I got married, whilst this was amazing his family were very traditional and that meant It wasn’t right for me to go out to work. Over-time I improved in my job, transferred locations and I was on top of my game, but after maternity leave, I was turned down for a promotion and it was then I decided to leave my job and start my own business. Seeing a gap in the market for clinical audit provision, I left Bayer to set up my first company in 2001 – Oberoi Consulting. I gained my first lucrative contract with global pharmaceutical giant Pfizer and we took on over 800 practices in the first 6-months, it was a £500,000 project. Jay: Can you share some tips with the audience from your amazing career? Kavita: You must be passionate about what you choose to do, you must be focused and determined in order to achieve the things you want to achieve and, success isn’t easy you need to work hard. BEST MOMENTS “You have to make a lot of sacrifices to get to where you want to go, entrepreneurs are often quite rebellious” “If someone says you can’t do it, take it as motivation to go ahead and do it” “Anyone can be good at sales, but it’s all down to the practice” “If you have a challenge you have to engage with people and bring them around to your passion” “It’s really important to have mentors in your life, to guide you along the way” “When you give back you receive more in return” “The more patients they treated the more money they would get and their brand would grow. Their sales teams were signing up all these practises, we were just delivering and we worked on that brand for 11 years and as a result, become the go-to provider for new Pfizer licensing delivering. Now, the business has developed and with software and development we are now doing clinical audits on a mass scale, it’s been going 17 years.” VALUABLE RESOURCES https://www.kavitaoberoi.com/ Oberoi Consulting – a major provider of healthcare support services to clients including the pharmaceutical industry and the NHS. ABOUT THE HOST Jay Dhillon is a serial entrepreneur, investor and philanthropist based in the UK with a proven track record of growing businesses from start-up to success- and helping others do the same. From humble beginnings, Jay grew his first business from 0-500 employees and three locations, racking up sales of over £30 million – all without any investment other than a small amount of savings. The business went on to acquire major clients such as Landrover, Jaguar, Toyota and New Look, to name a few. Its huge success inevitably brought about outside interest and at the age 33 Jay eventually sold the company to a London investment firm in Doyen Resources. Today, Jay owns several businesses in different sectors and helps entrepreneurs achieve success. A calling to give back and help others led to Jay being chosen for the highly-coveted role as a Prince’s Trust mentor, where his achievements were marked by a personal invitation to Buckingham Palace to meet Prince Charles. After helping several young entrepreneurs to success as a mentor for the Trust, Jay’s burning desire to bring his wisdom and knowledge to a wider audience ultimately triggered the concept of The Business Mentor Podcast. Jay feels that anyone can achieve success in business with the right advice and mentoring and is now sharing his knowledge with his growing audience via his podcast. In the UK alone 95% of business fail within the first five years and Jay’s aim is to reduce that number. Backed with the hard-earned knowledge and experience from his time in business, The Business Mentor Podcast will share Jay’s personal business lessons as well those of other successful entrepreneur guests who share their wisdom and secrets on the show. CONTACT METHOD https://www.jay-dhillon.com/ https://uk.linkedin.com/in/jaydhillon https://www.instagram.com/jaydhillonuk/ https://www.facebook.com/JaydhillonUK/ Jay@businessmentorpodcast.com ABOUT THE GUEST Kavita Oberoi is one of the UK's most highly regarded successful entrepreneurs and social philanthropists, with a multi-million-pound business portfolio. In 2009 she was named in a Bank of Scotland report as one of Britain's 100 most entrepreneurial women and in 2014 awarded an OBE for services to entrepreneurship and start-up businesses. Her many other accolades include being awarded the women of colour achievement award, an Honorary Fellowship from Burton & South Derbyshire college, an Honorary Doctorate for Business and Entrepreneurship, Beacon Fellowship for Philanthropy Advocate, NRI Pinnacle Award - The Business Empress Honour, NRI Institute international ‘Pride of India Gold Award’ and a Fellowship of the RSA (The Royal Society for the encouragement of Arts, Manufacture and Commerce). GUEST CONTACT https://www.kavitaoberoi.com/contact/ https://uk.linkedin.com/in/kavita-oberoi-obe-5b83226 https://twitter.com/Kavita_Oberoi

Working in many fields from painting and architecture, to typeface, furniture and stage design. UK artist Roger Dean is perhaps best known for his album covers for groups such as Yes, Asia, Osibisa and Pink Floyd. More than sixty million copies of Roger's images have been sold around the world, as album covers, posters, cards, calendars and books. His work has been exhibited in many galleries and museums, including the V&A, The Royal Academy and The Royal College of Art. In 2010, the Daelim Contemporary Art Museum in Seoul, Korea, held a major retrospective of his work. Roger studied at Canterbury College of Art and then between 1965-1968 at The Royal College of Art, where he received a first for his Master's Degree and a silver medal, for Work Of Special Distinction. He has since been awarded an Honorary Doctorate by the San Francisco Academy of Art University and an Honorary Fellowship by the Arts Institute of Bournemouth. With his brother Martyn, Roger has formed two publishing companies and also developed architectural prototypes, which have been exhibited at the National Exhibition Centre, Birmingham. Since 2007, he has worked with his daughter Freyja on projects such as the sets and costumes for the 150th anniversary of the Puccini Festival. Not only being referenced in countless films, his work has inspired generations of students who have gone on to become professional designers and artists as well as demonstrating the importance of never going anywhere without a sketchbook and pencil. Roger's work is chronicled in three volumes: ‘Views’ (1975), Magnetic   Storm(1984) and Dragons Dream (2008).

Carol Lefebvre gives a talk for the Evidence based healthcare seminar series. Carol Lefebvre will address the shift in focus over the last 20 years away from purely ‘literature searching', i.e. only searching databases such as MEDLINE/PubMed for published literature, such as journal articles and books for identifying studies for evidence synthesis. She will consider the ever-increasing role of unpublished data sources such as trials registers and regulatory agency sources. Carol Lefebvre is an Independent Information Consultant and was previously the Senior Information Specialist at the UK Cochrane Centre in Oxford from 1992 to 2012. She is a founder member of the Cochrane Collaboration. She is Co-Convenor of the Cochrane Information Retrieval Methods Group, serves on the Cochrane Methods Executive and is lead author on the searching chapter of The Cochrane Handbook. She also co-led the development of the Cochrane standards for searching (MECIR). She was awarded an M.Sc. in Library and Information Science from the University of Loughborough (UK) in 1985 and an Honorary Fellowship of the Chartered Institute of Library and Information Professionals in 2007. She now focusses on teaching and consultancy in information retrieval for evidence synthesis, such as systematic reviews, health technology assessment and guideline development.

Carol Lefebvre gives a talk for the Evidence based healthcare seminar series. Carol Lefebvre will address the shift in focus over the last 20 years away from purely ‘literature searching’, i.e. only searching databases such as MEDLINE/PubMed for published literature, such as journal articles and books for identifying studies for evidence synthesis. She will consider the ever-increasing role of unpublished data sources such as trials registers and regulatory agency sources. Carol Lefebvre is an Independent Information Consultant and was previously the Senior Information Specialist at the UK Cochrane Centre in Oxford from 1992 to 2012. She is a founder member of the Cochrane Collaboration. She is Co-Convenor of the Cochrane Information Retrieval Methods Group, serves on the Cochrane Methods Executive and is lead author on the searching chapter of The Cochrane Handbook. She also co-led the development of the Cochrane standards for searching (MECIR). She was awarded an M.Sc. in Library and Information Science from the University of Loughborough (UK) in 1985 and an Honorary Fellowship of the Chartered Institute of Library and Information Professionals in 2007. She now focusses on teaching and consultancy in information retrieval for evidence synthesis, such as systematic reviews, health technology assessment and guideline development.

Patrick Regan OBE is the founder Kintsugi Hope - a new charity that exists to create safe and supportive spaces for those experiencing mental and emotional health challenges. Prior to that Patrick was CEO of urban youth work charity XLP. Patrick has travelled to over thirty countries working with and on behalf of the poorest communities and is a regular contributor on radio and TV on issues of poverty and justice. He is the author of four books, the most recent being When Faith Gets Shaken. Patrick was awarded an Honorary Fellowship from London South Bank University in 2016 for his contribution to peace and social justice.

Baroness (Caroline) Cox became a Life Peer in 1982 for her contributions to education and has served as a Deputy Speaker of the House of Lords from 1985 to 2005. Lady Cox now sits in the Lords as a crossbencher and is a frequent contributor to Lords debates on Sudan, India, Nigeria, Uganda, and Burma. Baroness Cox’s humanitarian aid work has taken her on many missions to conflict zones, allowing her to obtain first-hand evidence of the human rights violations and humanitarian needs. Areas travelled include the Armenian enclave of Nagorno Karabakh; Sudan; Nigeria; Uganda; the Karen; Karenni; Shan and Chin peoples in the jungles of Burma; and communities suffering from conflict in Indonesia. She has also visited North Korea helping to promote Parliamentary initiatives and medical programmes. Additionally, Caroline has been instrumental in helping to change the former Soviet Union policies for orphaned and abandoned children from institutional to foster family care. In recognition of her work in the international humanitarian and human rights arenas over the past twenty years, she had been awarded the Commander Cross of the Order of Merit of the Republic of Poland; the prestigious Wilberforce Award; the International Mother Teresa Award from the All India Christian Council; the Mkhitar Gosh Medal conferred by the President of the Republic of Armenia; and the anniversary medal presented by Lech Walesa, the former President of Poland, at the 25th anniversary of the Polish Solidarity Movement. Lady Cox has also been awarded an Honorary Fellowship of the Royal College of Surgeons of England and Honorary Doctorates by universities in the United Kingdom, the United States of America, the Russian Federation and Armenia.