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I'm delighted to speak with Rusty Earnshaw and Danny Newcombe on this week's episode. Rusty is a coach and former professional rugby union player. Rusty has played Premiership rugby with West Hartlepool, Bath Rugby and Rotherham Titans, winning the European Cup whilst at Bath. In 2000 he was selected to play for the Barbarians. And he also represented England on the IRB Sevens circuit. Since his playing days he has held various positions at the Rugby Football Union, including International Performance Coach. He is now Director at The Magic Academy, which works across sport and business supporting the development of individuals and teams. Danny is a coach and coach developer. He is currently Senior Coach Development Manager at The Premier League. Until recently, he was a Senior Lecturer in Sport, Coaching and PE in the department of Sport, Health Sciences and Social Work at Oxford Brookes University, UK. He now holds a visiting research fellow post at Oxford Brookes.  Danny is also an international and domestic national league hockey coach. He is currently the head coach of the Men's Welsh National Team and works extensively with a number of partners in the coach development space. I speak with Rusty and Danny about their considerable coaching experiences and we break down some of the skills they use in their own coaching practices.

This is the second of two podcast episodes this week dealing with the aftermath of the attempted assassination of Donald J. Trump and the causes and effects of political violence in America. Political violence comes in different forms. A political movement might have a paramilitary force that engages in extrajudicial mayhem. A lone assassin may or may not be motivated by political ideas. Mobs break out in sheer anger and frustration at injustice, real or perceived. In this episode, Oxford Brookes historian Roger Griffin, an expert on socio-political movements, fascism, and terrorism, delves into the causes of political violence that are often difficult to clearly discern or contain.

This EP features Catherine Tomkies. Catherine has a practice at the Bosworth Clinic in Oxford England.  She has many experiences throughout her career, most interestingly as a physiotherapist each year at the Wimbledon fortnight.Among her other varied experiences, she's worked as a part-time teaching fellow on the Masters in Sports Physiotherapy at the University of Bath, Birmingham. She covered the 2022 Commonwealth Games 3 on 3 basketball and beach volleyball.  And she worked at a tennis academy in London under the coaching legend Allan Jones for 3 years.She has 2 children with her wife Jo Pierce, a Physiotherapy Lecturer at Oxford Brookes. This is a great chat about the life of a dedicated practitioner and balancing the demands of sports with life as a mom.If you liked this EP, please take the time to rate and comment, share with a friend, and connect with us on social channels IG @Kingopain, TW @BuiltbyScott, LI+FB Scott Livingston. You can find all things LYM at www.LYMLab.com, download your free Life Lab Starter Kit today and get busy living https://lymlab.com/free-lym-lab-starter/Please take the time to visit and connect with our sponsors, they are an essential part of our success:www.VALD.com

I regularly talk about how much support I have received on my writing journey from Jericho Writers, and so today's conversation is with Sophie Flynn, and author in her own right, and also the MD of Jericho Writers.Sophie is a Cotswolds-based psychological thriller author with an MA in Creative Writing from Oxford Brookes. Her debut novel ALL MY LIES was published by Simon & Schuster in April 2021. She has since had more psychological thrillers published by Hera, mostly recently WHAT STAYS UNSAID (May, 2024).After being awarded a place at Swanwick Writers' Summer School on the TopWrite scheme for young writers in 2017, Sophie began writing short fiction. She has since had many stories published and placed in competitions with organisations such as Writing Magazine and The Cheltenham Literature Festival.When not writing, Sophie can be mostly found on muddy walks with her husband and rescue dog or disappearing to Cornwall whenever possible.  Alongside writing, Sophie is the Managing Director of Jericho Writers. If you would like to show your love for the podcast, please consider buying me a coffee through BuyMeACoffee.com. This gives you an opportunity to make a small, one-off donation - you are not committed to regular payments. Making the podcast earns me no money, and in fact costs me a fair bit, but I do it for the love, and because I have such fun talking with wonderful authors. Even if you can't afford to buy me a coffee, simply letting me know that you love the podcast means a lot to me. Please take a moment to leave a star rating, write a review, or share the episode with others you know who will benefit from listening in, or you can tag me in social media when you share an episode that you love with your followers.My website is http://www.zoerichards.co.uk and you can access the FREE Mini Reboot through this link.You can find me on TwiX and Instagram as @zoerichardsukAnd finally my debut novel, Garden of Her Heart, is published 20th June 2024. You can pre-order here or if you are on NetGalley you can request an ARC (advance reader copy) here.Happy writing, and may the words flow for you.

GUEST OVERVIEW: Simon has worked in the space sector since studying for his undergraduate and postgraduate degrees in engineering at Oxford Brookes university. His background is in advanced propulsion systems development for future low-cost reusable access to space, following an extensive career at UK propulsion company Reaction Engines. His professional experience within the industry is wide-ranging, covering technology R&D, business operations & development, and future strategic space studies. Simon has a strong passion for all aspects of astronautics and is very excited to be leading the BIS into the future.

Solo hasta este siglo, Colombia ha sido un país de puertas abiertas en la migración. Hace unos 120 años un decreto dejó por escrito que solo podían entrar ciertas cantidades de sirios, libaneses, palestinos y demás personas de pueblos árabes que llegaron al país por el mar Caribe y se asentaron en el interior a través de los ríos navegables. Políticos, empresarios y artistas hacen parte de la rica herencia cultural de los árabes en Colombia.En el episodio de hoy, Alejandro y Luis Guillermo conversan con Esteban Devis Amaya, profesor de la universidad de Oxford Brookes en Inglaterra, experto en estudios de migración y descendiente de migrantes árabes. Sobre otras migraciones históricas, escuche este episodio: De inmigrantes a industriales: la historia de los judíos en ColombiaDéjà Vu es un podcast de opinión de La Silla Podcasts. La dirección es de Alejandro Lloreda y Luis Guillermo Vélez. La coordinación periodística y de podcasts de La Silla Vacía es de Tatiana Duque. La producción de audio y edición es de Fernando Cruz.Cada quince días un nuevo episodio.Quieres aprender de pódcast, hacer un pódcast como este o grabar tus contenidos sonoros? En La Silla Vacía te ayudamos y damos las herramientas. Para mayor información y precios, consulta acá:Viva en primera fila nuestro periodismo con una membresía a los SuperAmigos de La Silla. Puede ser parte de nuestra comunidad acá

In episode 299 UNP founder and curator Grant Scott is in his shed reflecting on photographers as brands, stock photography embracing AI, cardboard rats in photographs, and advice on writing for photographers. Plus this week, photographer Morganna Magee 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?' You can register to join the webinar to find out about the Online MA Professional Photography at Oxford Brookes mentioned in this epsiode here: https://www.brookes.ac.uk/open-days/postgraduate/ma-professional-photography-webinar Morganna Magee is a based in Melbourne, Australia, living and working on the unceded land of the  Bunurong/Boonwurrung people of the Kulin Nations, the foothills of the Dandenong ranges. Her practice explores human relations to the non-human world using traditional photographic practices in non-traditional ways. Her work has been awarded and exhibited nationally and internationally. It has also been recognised by institutions such as The National Portrait Gallery, Australia. She is part of Tall Poppy Press and is regularly commissioned for editorial and large-scale community arts projects for The New York Times, The New Yorker, The Guardian, Art and Australia, the Mission for Seafarers, Ronald McDonald House and The Immerse Arts Festival among others. Morganna is the Major Discipline Co-ordinator for Photo Media, at Swinburne University of Technology. www.morgannamagee.com Dr.Grant Scott After fifteen years art directing photography books and magazines such as Elle and Tatler, Scott began to work as a photographer for a number of advertising and editorial clients in 2000. Alongside his photographic career Scott has art directed numerous advertising campaigns, worked as a creative director at Sotheby's, art directed foto8magazine, founded his own photographic gallery, edited Professional Photographer magazine and launched his own title for photographers and filmmakers Hungry Eye. He founded the United Nations of Photography in 2012, and is now a Senior Lecturer and Subject Co-ordinator: Photography at Oxford Brookes University, Oxford, and a BBC Radio contributor. Scott is 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), and What Does Photography Mean To You? (Bluecoat Press 2020). His photography has been published in At Home With The Makers of Style (Thames & Hudson 2006) and Crash Happy: A Night at The Bangers (Cafe Royal Books 2012). His film Do Not Bend: The Photographic Life of Bill Jay was premiered in 2018. Scott's next book Inside Vogue House: One building, seven magazines, sixty years of stories, Orphans Publishing, is now on pre-sale. www.orphanspublishing.co.uk © Grant Scott 2024

Skip the Queue is brought to you by Rubber Cheese, a digital agency that builds remarkable systems and websites for attractions that helps them increase their visitor numbers. Your host is  Kelly Molson, Founder of Rubber Cheese.Download the Rubber Cheese 2023 Visitor Attraction Website Report - the annual benchmark statistics for the attractions sector.If you like what you hear, you can subscribe on iTunes, Spotify, and all the usual channels by searching Skip the Queue or visit our website rubbercheese.com/podcast.If you've enjoyed this podcast, please leave us a five star review, it really helps others find us. And remember to follow us on Twitter for your chance to win the books that have been mentioned in this podcastCompetition ends on 29th March 2024. The winner will be contacted via Twitter.  Show references: David Green | LinkedInhttps://www.blenheimpalace.com/Head of Innovation at Blenheim PalaceDavid Green is responsible for driving innovation at Blenheim to deliver value from the implementation of novel business methods and new concepts. His role involves building a culture of continual improvement and innovation, bringing together and contextualising novel datasets through a data and IoT network infrastructure, and identifying opportunities to enhance customer experiences.David leads the research and development at Blenheim, cultivating university partnerships, that helps fuse specialised knowledge with Blenheim's diverse landscape and practical challenges. Moreover, he initiated the Innovation and Continual Improvement network, fostering collaboration among sector leads to share expertise and address common challenges. Joseph Paul | LinkedInhttps://vennersys.co.uk/Associate Director – Key Account ManagerWith 10 years of experience in SaaS Account Management and 6 years at Vennersys, Joe works closely with visitor attractions to optimise system performance and internal processes. He acts as a conduit between attraction managers and Vennersys, helping facilitate constructive communication to further develop and improve Vennersys' own services based on customer needs or industry trends.In his personal life, Joe can either be found playing hockey for his local club or taking long, refreshing walks in the hills and fields near his home. Transcriptions:  Kelly Molson: Welcome to Skip The Queue, a podcast for people working in or working with visitor attractions. I'm your host, Kelly Molson. On today's episode I speak with David Green, Head of Innovation at Blenheim Palace and Joseph Paul, Associate Director - Key Account Manager at Vennersys.We're talking about data - but not just the importance of it (we all know that right?). David and Joe share the exciting data and AI reporting systems that Blenheim have created, allowing them to predict, and not just report on past performance. This is a really interesting episode and if you're been a little bit put off or a little bit scared about AI up until this point, this might be the episode that changes your mind.If you like what you hear, you can subscribe on all the usual channels by searching Skip The Queue. Kelly Molson: David, Joe, it is lovely to have you both on the podcast today. Thank you for joining me on Skip the Queue. David Green: It's great to be here. Joseph Paul: Thanks for having us. Kelly Molson: That sounded very positive, guys. Thanks. Feel the enthusiasm. David Green: Let's see how the first question goes, shall we? Kelly Molson: Listen, everyone worries about these icebreaker questions. It's just we're just in a pub, in a coffee shop having a little chat. That's all it is. Right, I want to know. We'll start with you, Joe. What was the last thing you binge watched on your streaming service of choice? Joseph Paul: Gosh, that's a very good question. The last series we binge watch was a series called Bodies on Netflix, which is about a murder that happens in four different time periods and four detectives are trying to solve the murder. Very good if you haven't watched it.  Kelly Molson: I have seen this and Joe, it hurt my head a little bit.Joseph Paul: Yeah. It is hard to keep track of some of the plots through the different times, but there's a very good ending worth watching if you haven't, David? David Green:  I don't think I have. I didn't get a chance to watch TV. Kelly Molson: So same question to you, David. That's a really good series as well, Joe. I thoroughly enjoyed that, although it did hurt the backwards forwards bit a little bit, was a bit mind blowing. Same question to you, David. What was the last thing that you binge watched? David Green: Well, the last thing I probably binge watched was probably Breaking Bad. That just sort of shows you how long ago it was. I binge watched anything, but I'm desperate to watch it again. It was so good. I was just hooked on the first episode. I just loved every single minute of that. Kelly Molson: Have you seen that, Joe? Joseph Paul: Yes. Very good series. Probably one of the best of all time. And the question back would be, have you watched Better Call Saul? David Green: Yeah, but I didn't find it as good. I say I didn't find as good. It was still great. I'm very fussy in the Greenhouse song. Kelly Molson: I feel like I'm the only person in the whole world who's not watched Breaking Bad, which is this is quite controversial, isn't it? Everybody says that I would love it and I should watch it, but I feel overwhelmed that there's so many series to it and it would take up all of my TV viewing time for months and months. It would be the only thing that I could probably watch for the entire year and that feels too much. Joseph Paul: It's well worth it. Absolutely. You should do it.Kelly Molson: Dedicate 2024 as the year for Breaking Bad. David Green: I'm going to own up. I've not watched a single episode of The Crown either and some of it was filmed at Blenheim. So I'm really embarrassed to admit that on this podcast.Kelly Molson: That is a statement in a half, David. See, this is why I do the icebreakers. You never know what dirt you're going to get out. David, we're going to start with you with this one. What is the one food or drink that you cannot eat and you can't even think about without feeling a little bit queasy? David Green: That's cheese pastry straight away. I remember when I was at school, we had a home economics club. I remember making these cheese straws and I took them home and I was so environmentally ill after these cheese straws ever since, I just can't even look at cheese pastry. All these nibbles that people without for drinks can't bear it. Cheese and pastry together is wrong. Kelly Molson: This is really sad. I love a little cheese straw. I feel sad for you that you can't eat a cheese straw, David. I feel sad for you. Joe, what about you? Joseph Paul: I can pretty much eat anything and I'm not overly put off by much. I think the one thing that turns me away from food is horseradish and any sauce. That's probably my only sort of food that I won't go to and puts me off eating anything that has.Kelly Molson: Just horseradish or sauce in general. Are we talking like, sweet chilli dip? No?Joseph Paul: Just horseradish. So anything that has that in it, I will stay away from. But apart from that, I'll pretty much eat anything anyone puts on my plate. David Green: I think you're missing out, Joe. Kelly Molson: Do you know what's probably really nice as well? Is a cheese straw with horseradish.Joseph Paul: But cheese straws are the best. David Green: I'm going to have to leave the room in a minute. We could talk about cheese straw. Kelly Molson: Sorry. All right, let's move on from that. Right, I want to know I was quite kind to those ones. I want to know what your unpopular opinions are. Joe, let's start with you. Joseph Paul: Not sure this is going to go down too well, but my unpopular opinion is Harry Potter is an overrated film series. Kelly Molson: Books or films or both? Joseph Paul: Films, predominantly. Kelly Molson: Wow. I mean, my husband would absolutely agree with you. So I got him to watch the first one and then we got halfway through the second one and he paused it and looked at me and said, "Kelly, I just can't do this. Sorry." And left the room. That was it. Done. Joseph Paul: I can understand. So in our household, we alternate between Harry Potter and Lord of the Rings. So we compromise. We have a Harry Potter, then a Lord of the Rings, then go through. Kelly Molson: Is your partner Harry Potter, then? Joseph Paul: My wife is very much a Harry Potter fan. Kelly Molson: Interesting. That is quite controversial. How do you feel about that, David? David Green: Very disappointing. Joe, actually. Joseph Paul: Sorry to let you down. David Green: We might have to end this now, Joe.Kelly Molson: This beautiful relationship that we're going to talk about. End over Harry Potter.  David Green: Harry Potter and cheese straws. Kelly Molson: David, same question to you. What is your unpopular opinion? David Green: Didn't think I had any unpopular opinions until I started really thinking about it, but I have to say, my original this is really good either, really was dancing, non professional dancing. I mean, I'm not a dancer, I've got a body of a dad. I am a dad and my wife and my daughter are very good dancers and I think it's just years of standing by a bar at a wedding with that person, go, "Come on, get on the dance floor, come on." And they drag you up and then busting moves is probably the wrong description, but it's just looking around the room on the floor with other people sort of bobbing around awkwardly looking, and all the blokes tipped you looking at each other going, "Oh, get me home." It's that awkwardness, I find really difficult and I'm going to be cheeky. And another one, because I just remembered that concerts is another one, so you spend a fortune going to a concert. David Green: I took my daughter once to Ariana Grande and I'd just been dragged to Arctic Monkeys and we drove hours and hours to this place and my wife had got Rose lead, I think, which was I needed binoculars to even see the stage. I was absolutely freezing, completely freezing. I didn't dress appropriately, I was dressed in a shirt and tied, typically, because that was Arctic Monkeys. Kelly Molson: You went through a shirt and tied Arctic Monkeys? God said, "Well".David Green: I remember walking down to the bottom of the stadium, I'm freezing, I have to go and get some clothes, and they let me out and I had to buy Arctic Monkeys merchandise and I came up the steps wearing an Arctic Monkeys hoodie. Number one fan to my wife and daughter, absolutely laughing hilariously.  David Green: And I had to listen to the music for 2 hours and then I got home about three in the morning and my wife had promised me dinner out, went to Wild Bean Cafe at 01:00 A.M. on the way home. Kelly Molson: What a treat.David Green: Dancing and concert. Laura just sneaking next to one in. Kelly Molson: Well, no, I love this. I mean, it's like an elongation of it, isn't it? They go hand in hand.  I would be that person at a wedding, they're trying to get you on the dancefloor. Which made me start laughing and then I lost it. Shirt and tie at an Arctic Monkeys gig. What were you thinking? David Green: I don't know. Kelly Molson: I think that's my favourite unpopular opinion yet. Amazing. Thank you both for sharing. Shall we talk about some serious stuff? David Green: Have you cried on a podcast before?Kelly Molson: Before I've had a cry, I've definitely had a cry on the podcast, but a cry of laughter, I'm not sure that's really got me today. Right, serious stuff. We're going to talk about data today, which is very serious stuff. We all know the importance of data. We've talked about data hundreds and hundreds of times in various different guyses. On this podcast, however, we're going to talk about reporting today, but with a twist. So reporting is often usually about things that have already happened. We're looking at past visitor numbers, we're looking at how many visitors came and how much they spent in the cafe on a particular day, what the weather was like on a past particular day. So we can predict whether it might be like that this year. Kelly Molson: But Blenheim are doing something completely different with reporting, which, when we had a chat about it prior to this episode, it blew my mind a little bit. And it's such a brilliant case study. You need to share this with the world. Firstly, though, I want you to just, both of us, tell us a little bit about your role and your background. So, Joe, can you start first? Tell us a little bit about your role and how you came into it. Joseph Paul: Yeah, of course. So I've been in the industry for six years now within the visitor attraction industry, working at Vennersys, and my role is a Key Account Manager. So I work closely with our clients throughout the lifetime of their contracts, so making sure they are getting the most out of the system and that sort of return on investment they've put into the software they've purchased. So I've worked closely with David and the Blenheim team for about six years now, and prior to that, I was also in account management as well, within a software business. Kelly Molson: Great. David, over to you. David Green: Variable history with Blenheim. I think next year will be the 30th year when I first walked through the doors. So when I was studying at college, it was my first sort of part time weekend Christmas job, and I was a bubble up for the 11th Duke and Duchess, and that was great. If I got I know stuff. Kelly Molson: I feel like there's a podcast episode on its own about that part of your career. David Green: I'm not sure I could speak too much about that, but I remember when I finished college, my mother said, "What are you going to get a proper job?" And the phone rang and I ended up working at Blenheim. Moved into the clock tower at Blenheim. That was my first flat. It was quite incredible, I have to say. But after leaving when I was 21, I just changed direction. So I became a developer, so I learned to programme and I worked for a little agency in Abingdon for two doctors who were both very bright guys. Yeah, I just put the hours in and learned to programme and really, that probably led to where I am today. I learned very quickly to problem solve and learned very quickly how to develop things. David Green: So when I finally joined Blenheim again, full time enabled me to sort of trial new things very quickly, fail fast. And that kind of led to our first real time reporting platform, which I developed myself. Kelly Molson: Amazing. David Green: This was really a combination of seeing that the business had lots of data and seeing that a lot of the data was inputted in manually. So being able to develop something that could contextualise data in a better way, but get people looking at the data in a much faster way, I think that's where it started from. Kelly Molson: And that is what we're going to talk about today. You've got a really interesting job title. So you're Head of Innovation at Blenheim Palace. Are there many other heads of innovation in the sector? Because there's lots of kind of I mean, ALVA, for instance, brilliant organisation, they do lots of kind of individual meetups. So heads of marketing meetups, CEO meetups, head of visitor service meetups. I haven't seen them do a Head of Innovation meetup yet, so I question how many of you are there? David Green: I don't think there's very many at all, but the title is becoming more and more known, I think, across multiple sectors. And it was really the sort of creation I was Head of Digital at Lent for eight or nine years, and it was really the creation of Dominic Hare, our CEO, who saw the need for research development. The role is really about hunting for problems, and as much as we're well known for our visitor business, we have a thriving land business and a thriving real estate business. And I get to work across those three tiers, which is really exciting, hunting for problems. I get to work with universities, so we have a really strong university partnership, both at Oxford Brookes and the Oxford University. David Green: And this really allows us to bring in the latest research academics into a real world environment to solve problems together. So that's really exciting. But then the sort of second thing I work on as Head of Innovation is live data, so I have a data background, so it meant that very quickly I could bring all of our data into one place to drive greater insight. And then the third tier is looking at sort of customer experience changes. So if anyone sees my post on LinkedIn, you'll see we've brought in a new returnable cup scheme of all of our cups are RFID enabled. So looking at eradicating single use cups right the way through to a transformation project around implementing digital wallets and pulses. David Green: So there's lots of different things right the way through to encouraging our visas to come by green transport, which is very much tied into our 2027 pledge to become carbon neutral. Kelly Molson: That's lovely. Yeah. That's really interesting that you sit across so many different facets and it's not just about data and reporting and digital, really. So what we're going to talk about today is a particular project that you've both been involved in, and I'm going to kind of split this into two, because there's two areas that I kind of want to focus on. I want to hear about what the project is and all of the things and benefits that it's brought to Blenheim, which David's going to talk about. Kelly Molson: And then, Joe, I want to then come over to you and talk about how you kind of made this happen from a supplier perspective and the things that you need to work through together with your client and maybe some of the things that you've had to change and implement to be able to support your client, to do the things that they want to do with your system. So, David, I'm going to start with you. Can you give us kind of an overview of what this project is like, the background to it and then what led to that project happening? David Green: Background is like many organisations in this sector, we have lots and lots of data. Often we report out of proprietary systems, we then contextualise our data very well and I wanted to bring all the information to one area so we could really apply context but also look at in that data. So this sort of built off our first real time reporting platform that were able to get data into the hands of the operations teams, other teams, really quickly. But it wasn't really supportable just by me here at Blenheim. So were looking at one, finding a platform that we could utilise to allow us to get data out to feedball in a much more secure way. I was handling all the visualisations and things and there's better tools for that. So that's one of the reasons. David Green: The second thing is looking at data, I wanted to try out using AI to identify patterns. So what's the correlation between certain data sources? There's one, a group of visitors wearing wet coats. Does that have an impact on the environmental conditions? What's the optimal number of people that retail space to maximise their understand all those sorts of things were unanswered questions. So I engaged one of our Oxford Brookes relationships that we already had and we applied for what's called a Knowledge Transfer Partnership. So a KTP, which is match funded, that's Innovate UK match funded, and I highly recommend them as a starting point. And what that does, it brings in an associate who works full time. David Green: This project was, I think, 32 months, but also you get access to different parts of the university and in our case, we had access to the technical faculty as well as the business faculty. So you've got real experts in the field working with an associate that's embedded here, Lennon, that can help us solve that problem. And we're fortunate enough to win the application and the grant money and then we cloud on. So we called it a Smart Visitor Management System. That's the headline and really the two key subsystems of that was the customer insight and prediction. So we wanted to look at how we could predict business numbers. We know all of the knock on impacts of that in terms of better planning, reducing food waste, all those sorts of things. But then we also want to look at the visitor flow. David Green: So that's almost saying, "Well, where are visitors right now and where are they going to go next?" But they're the two sort of component parts. Kelly Molson: Such a brilliant introduction to AI as well, because I think it is such a current topic right now. And I was at a recent ALVA meeting where there was a phenomenal speaker talking about the implications of AI and the opportunities that it could bring. And I think there was a 50 - 50 split of the audience of 50% of them were terrified about this new technology and what it might potentially mean. And then 50% were really inspired by it and see these huge opportunities from it. But I think this is such a brilliant case study to show how it can be used to your advantage in a very non-scary way. David Green: I think with AI can be scary, but actually it's all about governance at the end of the day. And actually what we're doing is using machine learning to identify the patterns in large data sets to help us be better informed. Kelly Molson: What have been the benefits of implementing this kind of level of data reporting? So what have you been able to do that you couldn't previously do? David Green: Well, predictions is one. So ultimately we all budget. The first thing to probably say is that when we do contextual reporting, normally we access our data from a proprietary system and then bring it into some sort of spreadsheet and then try and tie it into a budget. That's sort of the first thing. It's really getting all of your data sets in a early. So we had budget, we had weather, we had advanced bookings, we had ticketing from different sort of platforms. And the starting point, before we talk too much about end benefits, were developing a data strategy in this centralised concept of a DataHub. So all of our data is in one place, and we're using APIs and direct connections and data signature Vennersys to bring data into one place. David Green: We also looked at platforms, environments, so were looking at Azure, we're a Microsoft business. So actually we decided Azure was the right sort of plan for us and we came up with a very broad strategy that said anything else we procure in the future has to best in class or it talks to the DataHub and often if it's best in class as an API. So you can get that information into one place. So that's the first thing. The joy of using something like Microsoft and other platforms are available, I would say, is to access the power platform. And the Power platform sort of answered the problem around how do we visualise our data, how do we automate some of our data and what data is missing and how can we collect it? David Green: So using things like Power BI and PowerApps, I think was really crucial. Once we had all of our sort of data organised, we had the pandemic and of course, one of the sort of big issues around predicting, certainly when you've got lots of data sets, you're trying to look at patterns in data and your data is finely structured, then you get hit by something like this and where are the patterns? What's changed? The business model completely changed. We were a 10% advanced booking business. Suddenly were either zero or 80 or 100 and then sort of now about 65. So that was a bit of a challenge as well. In terms of then looking at the missing data. And we'll talk a little bit maybe about sort of the centre network and how do we measure things in remote places. David Green: But ultimately the core of this project was the DataHub, the ability to bring everything into one place, ability to push that data out. So answering your question in a long winded way is really about getting the data into hands of people, to allow them to plan better, to be prepared for the day, what is likely to happen today, what are the patterns in that day? And this is where we develop things like a concept of similar day. So a similar day might be one that has similar number of pre bookings, has similar weather. We look at weather in terms of temperature, wind and rain. It might have a similarity in terms of an event day or a weekend or similar budget. And that concept allows us to look forward, which is great. The predictions tend to look at other things. David Green: So we have one naive prediction that looks at previous performance in terms of pre booking to predict forward. And then another one, we have what we call an adaptive prediction, which allows us to look at advanced bookings and then see the change in advanced bookings over time against budget, to then alert us to the fact that we might experience more visitors than expected on that particular day. Kelly Molson: Gosh, that's really powerful, isn't it? Does that mean that your team have access to kind of a dashboard that they can look at any given time and be like, “Okay, we can model next week based on these predictions?”David Green: Data is pretty much everywhere, so we have one really nice thing and we have this. When I built search platform was TV screens across all of our staff areas. We have a ten OD voltwim across Blenheim. Everyone has access to that data. And that could be how traffic is flowing on the driveway. We use ADPR to look at how busy traffic is outside of our park walls. We look at car park capacity. We look at how happy our staff are using what we call a mood metric. So we put those smiley buttons in staff areas to determine how well they think the day is going. So we have access to all of this sort of information, but also then sort of more business reporting through Power BI. David Green: So we have a series of what I've called sort of visual representations of activity, but also sort of data that we can export into Excel. So we do a lot of finance reporting as well through Power BI. Again, all reporting from that single source of the truth, which is the DataHub. And if anyone's going down this route, I always describe it, I call it the product hierarchy. I always describe it as the giant coin sorting machine, which means that we're comparing apples with apples. So if you've got a particular product type, let's say annual park or House park and gardens, or park and gardens, you budget against that item, against adult, child, concession, family, young adult, whatever, you create a product hierarchy that matches that to your actual ticketing sales. David Green: And it doesn't matter then who sells your ticket, you're matching to that same product hierarchy. So think of it as a giant column sourcing machine that then every five minutes builds that single source of the truth in a database, then can be report out either through digital screens locations or Power BI. So, lots of tunes. Kelly Molson: It's incredible that level of access that you can give people now that must have improved how the team feel about their working day. It must have really helped with kind of like team culture and team morale. David Green: Absolutely. One, it's about engaging. Our teams are really important. People are the most important commodity we have at Blenheim. So having a series of management accounts, they never see their impact of engaging our businesses and giving our business a really good time, focusing on that Net Promoter Score, giving them access to that information. So, well done, look at the impact is really important. So, yeah, it's been fairly transformational here at Blenheim. Kelly Molson: Wow. What do you think has been the biggest impact? David Green: I think access to the data, better planning, there's more to do. We're embedding these tools, people that trust these tools. It's no mean feat. So getting good. What's nice to see when things aren't coming through quite right or car park speeds and we say it is, it might be data pipeline that's got awry. People very quickly come to us and say, "It's missing." So, seven days a week our team is sort of monitoring and seeing people use it. Moodmetric is great. Our cleaners now, they clean our facilities based on usage because they can see how many people have used the loo's by using our sensor data. So that's again, it all impacts that Net Promoter Score. And I will say on Net Promoter, love it or hate it, Net Promoter Score is all about looking backwards. David Green: Typically what we try to do is to create the equivalent to on the day. What can we do about it right now? How busy is traffic flowing on a drive? Do we need to open another kiosk? How busy will the cafe get? Will we run out sandwiches? So we've got alerting looking at that comparison to similar day and are we trading above or below that? So again, we can send an alert to say, “Make some more sandwiches or do something else. The loos need a clean.” All of these sorts of things are built into the visitor management system to allow us to really optimise not just the visitor experience, but our staff engagement and experience as well. Kelly Molson: So you've got this really proactive approach to it, which actually makes you reactive on the day because you can move quicker, because you can make easier decisions about things. That's phenomenal. I love that the team have taken real ownership of that as well. I think embedding something like this, it can be quite challenging, right. People don't like change and these things feel a bit scary, but it feels like your team have really engaged with them and taken ownership of the system. David Green: Absolutely. It's no mean feat. Two challenges embedding something new like this. Absolutely. That's change management. The second thing is data pipelines, ensuring all of your sensors and everything is online and working. And when you're dealing with such high volume of data sets coming in, you really need to be absolutely on it. Second to the sort of broader and maybe more granular reporting, one other thing we've devised is a series of KPIs, which pretty much any attraction. David Green: Most might already have a series of KPIs, but KPIs to look forward. So actually in this moment in time, are we trading ahead or behind versus this time last year? So if you start comparing apples with apples at this moment in time, what was RMR's booking? We share these KPIs across the whole site and that could be relation to bookings or even spend per head versus budget spend per head for the next 30 days. David Green: Visually, we put these on all of our digital screens very quickly can identify when we need to do something, be driving that by marketing activity or celebrating success. We've got a very clear picture and that means everyone's along for the ride. Everyone gets access to this information. Kelly Molson: That's absolutely phenomenal. Joe, I'm going to come over to you now because I can only imagine what you were thinking when David came to you and said, "Right, we've got this idea, this is what we want to do." And you're one of the platforms. Vennersys is one of the platforms that has been working with him. I think it's quite a long relationship. Is it? It's about 16 years.Joseph Paul: 16, 17 years now, I think. Long relationship.David Green: Yeah. I was five. How old were you? Joseph Paul: Wasn't conceived yet. Kelly Molson: Wowzers. That is a long relationship. Okay, so I kind of want to know from you, Joe, to make this happen, what have you had to do differently as a supplier? So how have you had to interact with your clients' needs and what steps did you have to go to kind of understand what the outcome was going to be? Joseph Paul: Yeah, so I think firstly that the system has an enormous amount of data in it and I think the first step for us was to understand exactly what Blenheim were looking to get out of the system and plug into the sort of the DataHub that David was talking about. So that kind of comprised of some initial conversations of what they were trying to achieve. And then following that it was all about workshopping and making sure were going to present the data in the format that David and the team at Blenheim Palace required. Joseph Paul: Yeah, I think fundamentally it was just working closely with the team there and getting those requirements in detail and making sure weren't missing anything and really understanding everything they were trying to achieve and pushing that in a simple and easy format for the team to then push into their views and into their KPIs that they required. Really the main focus for us was pushing that data out to David and the team into that DataHub in that format that was easily accessible and sort of manipulated for them. Kelly Molson: I guess there's so much it's understanding what are the key know, what are the variables here, what are the key points that we need to do this and how do we go about doing this for you? Joseph Paul: Absolutely. Because there's a number of options and a number of different ways that data can be pushed to clients. So it's understanding what the best is for that client and their resource because that's also important. Not every attraction has unlimited resource or the expertise in house to sort of obtain that data, but also, even if they can obtain that data, they might not have that sort of resource to then create their own dashboards and create their own reporting tools from a repository. So it's really understanding every kind of asset and every level to that sort of client and then working closely with them to achieve their goal. So it might be more resource from our side or working closely with the expertise that they might have in house. Kelly Molson: Or suggesting that they might need to get extra expertise. So this is something that we talk about in terms of API integration all the time, is that it absolutely can be done with any of the systems that you have. If they have an API, yes, you can integrate it into whatever other system that you want. But who takes ownership of that internally? And do they have the capability and do they have the resource and do they have the capacity to do that? And if that's a no, who can be trained to do those things? And how do we facilitate that as well? Joseph Paul: Yeah, absolutely. And in this case, as David highlighted, he's clearly got the expertise himself and others around him to produce all these fantastic sort of views and dashboards that are displayed all around Blenheim Palace. So in this sort of example with Blenheim Palace, it was all about getting the data to them and making sure it was in a format that they could work with easily. Kelly Molson: And you've worked together, Joe, you said about six years. You've been at Vennersys now, but the organisation has worked with Blenheim for over 16 years, which is testament to the relationship and the product that you have. Has this process that you've been through together, has this changed or strengthened the kind of relationship between supplier and client? Joseph Paul: Yes, I think from our point of view, we like to see it as a partnership. I think David would agree, and we want to be a part of their journey, but also Blenheim and want to be a part of our journey. So we're helping one another to achieve our individual goals as a partnership. So that relationship goes from strength to strength and we continue to have those conversations, whether that's myself or others within the business, to Blenheim and pass around things that we're coming up against in the industry, but also vice versa. So if David's got his ear to the ground and has a suggestion around how our platform could be improved, that's fed back to us. Joseph Paul: And we have that back and forth between client and supplier, but we like to see it as a partnership and work closely with them to achieve their goals and also our goals together.David Green: I don't want to make Joe cry, because I've already made you cry, Kelly, but seriously, over that course of 17 years, and I'm sure lots of people listening to this podcast will realise that it's always challenging working with other suppliers. You have your ups and you have your downs, but we've had way more ups than we've had downs and our business has changed massively. We went through a process of becoming a charity, so suddenly gifted all the admissions was really important and Joe and the team really helped us achieve that. David Green: Vanbrugh was not a very good forward planner in terms of he was a great architect, but actually, we have a single point of entry and to try and gift aid so many visitors, we have a million visitors a year coming to them to try and gift aid such a large number on a driveway is really difficult. So actually, working through that gift aid at the gate process, we're looking at that gift aid opportunity was one of the key projects, really, that we work with Vennersys on. Kelly Molson: But that's where the good things come out of client supplier relationships, is that you're both challenging each other on what the objectives are and what the outcomes potentially could be. So you work in partnership together and then everybody gets the better outcome. When we first spoke about this topic, what I thought was brilliant is that you have such a great case study, you have such a great showcase piece here, both of you, for how you've worked together and what you've been able to develop. I've absolutely said that you need to pitch this as a talk at the Museum and Heritage Show because I think it's an absolutely brilliant topic for it. It's so current and something that other organisations can go away and kind of model on. Kelly Molson: I don't know if you saw, we had Nik Wyness on from the Tank Museum last season who came on and basically just he gives away his kind of process as to how they've developed their YouTube following and how they've developed kind of a sales strategy from it. And it's brilliant. He's great at kind of coming on and going, "Yeah, this is what I did, and this is what we did, and this is the process and here you go. Go and do it." And I think you have an opportunity to do that together, which I think is lovely. David Green: Isn't it nice though, that we don't feel in competition and we can work together? We created what we call The Continually Improvement and Innovation Group which we have lots of members who have joined from all different places, from Chatsworth to Be Lee to Hatfield Outs and so on and all that is a slack channel. It's a six monthly meeting where we all come together and we discuss our challenges. You talked about are there many head of innovations? Well, may not be, but actually sharing our insights and sharing our lessons learned is incredibly important and that's not just Blenheim, lots of other attractions are doing lots of brilliant things as well and we can learn from them. So really exciting, I think, to do that. David Green: And again, very open, I will say, and I'm not going to plug a gift aid company, but there's something called Swift Aid that we're just looking at and wow, can we do retrospective gift aiding? Is it worth lots of money for lots of attractions that have gift aid on their admissions? Yes, it is well worth looking that up. Ultimately they have a database of 8 million centralised gift aid declarations that you can utilise there's commission but it's well worth looking at. If anyone wants information, please just LinkedIn with me and we'll discuss them. Kelly Molson: Oh, I love that. Again, this comes back to what we've always said about how collaborative and open to sharing information this sector is. What we'll do is in the show notes listeners, we will link to both David and Joe's LinkedIn profiles. If you want to connect with them, feel free and then actually David, Joe, if there's anything you want to share that we can add into those as well that would be useful for listeners. Then we'll pop them in there as. Kelly Molson: Actually, David, I've got one more question for you on that Slack channel, which I think is really interesting. It's great that you've set that up. I think those kind of platforms are really good at just facilitating conversation and it's really good to understand what people are doing from a supplier perspective. Do you have suppliers as part of that conversation as well, or is it purely attractions? David Green: I've kept it, I'd say non commercial, but we have invited speakers into the group to come and talk about it. But at the moment it's a closed environment. I think most people are more comfortable having sort of open conversations, but what it's really good at doing is it could be a question about compliance or sustainability or returnable cuts is a good one. It could be varying topics and we can just provide access to the right people here at Blenheim and vice versa, and other organisations if we've got questions. So, yeah, it works, it's growing, it's open, it's not ours, it's everyone's. So if anyone wants to join it, then we'll stick a link at LinkedIn maybe on the plot cups at the end of this. Kelly Molson: Oh, Fab, that's brilliant. Yeah, great. I think that's a really nice way of doing it with suppliers as well. It's difficult, I think Joe and I would probably say all of these conversations are really interesting for us because it helps us understand the challenges that the sector has and it helps us understand how we can make the things that we do so much better. So it's hard sometimes when there's closed environments like that, but the sector does so brilliantly at putting on conferences and organisations that we can all be part of as well. And again, platforms like this where we can come on and share the things that we're doing.Kelly Molson: That brings me back to the last question for you, Joe, is about has this process between the two of you and what you've been able to build together, has that helped Vennersys  as a supplier build out other services that you can then offer to kind of the wider sector? Joseph Paul: Yeah, so I think through this journey we've realised that data is really critical, but we also realised, as we kind of mentioned before, that not everyone has the resource to build their own visualisations of data and linking those to their sort of key performance indicators. So we work with Power BI as well on behalf of our clients, so we can also visualise that data that's within our systems. And that's really to help them get the most out of the data that is in our system, but also in that sort of more real time scenario, rather than having to extract a report, put it that into an Excel and get that information out. Joseph Paul: So that's one service that's kind of come out of that relationship, but also expanding on our sort of open API as well. So additional endpoints so that clients can also extract that data in real time and that continues to grow with other clients as well as we sort of go down that journey with some other clients. So, absolutely. It's helped us sort of open up another avenue which has benefited other clients in the past couple of years, but also moving forward as we sort of expand on it.Kelly Molson: Brilliant. And that's the sign of true partnership, isn't it? There's been some incredible wins for both of you involved and it's brought new opportunities to both of the organisations. Thank you both for coming on and sharing this today. So we always end the podcast with book recommendations from our guests. So I wondered if you've both been able to pick a book that you'd like to share with our listeners today. What have you got for us? Joe, we'll start with you. Joseph Paul: Mine's a little bit out there. David Green: We know it's not Harry Potter, Joe. Kelly Molson: Absolutely not. Joseph Paul: Well, that would be a curveball if I started to plug the Harry Potter series. Hey. So recently, I was in Albania in Tirana and I was on a guided tour. And they were talking about the Ottoman period. And I realised I know nothing about the Ottoman history and I was interested about it more. Joseph Paul: So my in laws purchased a book called Lord Of The Horizons, which is all about the history of the Ottoman empire. So that's my current read at the moment. And if you're into your history and into your sort of empires, it's definitely worth a read. So that's my recommendation. The Lord of Horizons. Kelly Molson: Nice. Joe, we just got a little insight into some of your hobbies there and your likes that we didn't know about. Good. Okay. Thank you. David, what about you? David Green: Mine is The Hidden Life of Trees by Peter Wallaban. It's an incredible book. Now, I read lots of strategy books, data books. My wife thinks I'm really sad. This book is not any of that. This is about how trees communicate and I was absolutely enthralled with it. So this talks about them like arousal networks, how trees communicate through their roots, the noises and the sounds that trees make when they're struggling, when they're thirsty. It led to a lot of laughter on holiday with my daughter drawing pictures of trees with ears, but trees can actually hear. And from that, I was able to come back and look at one of our land projects where we're building a small solar farm at the moment, actually looking at the sort of benefits to soil health while we're putting solar on sort of fed degraded farmland. David Green: So we're using something called soil ecoacoustics that will allow us to listen to the sound of soil. So listen to soil for ultimately to index how healthy that soil is. So this one book has led to me reading a number of different research papers, cooking up with the universities to then test and trial something completely brilliant around identifying health through acoustics. So book is absolutely brilliant. There's a follow on book, but if you look at Peter Wallabin, he's written a number of books. Absolutely fascinating. Kelly Molson: Okay, wow. One, what an incredible book. I had no idea that trees could hear or talk. That's blown my mind a little bit, especially as someone who's a bit of a tree hugger. I'm not going to lie, I made a statement. I was with a client yesterday and were talking about AI. And I said, sometimes the conversations around AI just make me want to go outside and hug the tree in my back garden, take my shoes and socks off and just put my feet on the grass because I just want to connect with nature again and just get out of a tech world. So there's that. So I'm definitely going to buy that book. But two, how your mind works as well, how that book has taken you on a journey of innovation again into something connected but completely different.David Green: Again, it's really data. So you're welcome. We'll happily show you that site and put some headphones on you and we'll make this public as well, so hopefully we can share the secret sound of soil and other things as well. But really fascinating. Kelly Molson: That to me sounds like a David Attenborough show. Maybe we'll make it another podcast episode at some point. I'd love that. Thank you both for coming on and sharing today. As ever, if you want to win a copy of Joe and David's books, go over to our Twitter account, retweet this episode announcement with the words, I want Joe and David's books and you'll be in with a chance of winning them. Wow. Thank you for sharing. It's been an absolutely insightful podcast. There's lots of things that we're going to put in the show notes for you all. And as Joe and David said, please do. If you've got questions around what they've talked about today, feel free to connect and we'll pop a link to that Slack group in the show notes too, so you can join in with these conversations. Thank you both. David Green: Thank you. Joseph Paul: Thanks, Kelly. Kelly Molson:  Thanks for listening to Skip The Queue. If you've enjoyed this podcast, please leave us a five star review. It really helps others find us. And remember to follow us on Twitter for your chance to win the books that have been mentioned. Skip the queue is brought to you by Rubber Cheese, a digital agency that builds remarkable systems and websites for attractions that helps them increase their visitor numbers. You can find show notes and transcriptions from this episode and more over on our website, rubbercheese.com/podcast. The 2023 Visitor Attraction Website Report is now LIVE! Dive into groundbreaking benchmarks for the industryGain a better understanding of how to achieve the highest conversion ratesExplore the "why" behind visitor attraction site performanceLearn the impact of website optimisation and visitor engagement on conversion ratesUncover key steps to enhance user experience for greater conversionsDownload the report now for invaluable insights and actionable recommendations!

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In this conversation with leadership expert Peter Hawkins we explore the role of coaching in these times, the limits of AI coaching, wide-angled empathy, systemic coaching and helping organizations embrace the unknown. Peter Hawkins is Professor of Leadership at Henley Business School University of Reading UK and Emeritus Chairman of Bath Consultancy Group, where for the last 25 years he has been helping organizations in many parts of the world connect their strategic change, their organizational culture and their leadership development. He has written extensively about leadership, leadership teams, coaching and supervision. He is visiting professor at the universities of Bath and Oxford Brookes, and chairs Renewal Associates and Connect Assist. Visit coachesrising.com to see our acclaimed online coach trainings and other offerings.

Fergus and Camilla and joined by Hugo Gulliver, women's coach at Oxford Brookes as well as Becky Wilde, winner of the Princess Grace on Sunday.We talk Becky's super sub job on Henley Sunday, how other students are reacting to the Brookes domination and what trophies Hugo has his sights set on for next year...This episode is sponsored by Filippi.Filippi are one of the most instantly recognisable rowing boat brands in the world. Since inception in 1980, they've carried crews to over 400 medals at World Championship and Olympic level and have a network of dealers across the globe. They pride themselves on an ability to custom-create shells of the highest specification, suitable for Olympic champions and novice athletes. Today, the running of the boatyard is undertaken by David Filippi; the yard employs 60 technicians and produces just over 1100 boats each year which supply Federations worldwide.https://www.filippiboats.com/eng

This episode is part of an international triumvirate, which has been put together with the help of old friend of the podcast, Ian Wray, and new friend of the podcast, Lucy Natarajan. Ian, regular listeners will know, is a Professor at the Heseltine Institute for Public Policy, Practice and Place at University of Liverpool. Lucy is one of the editors of the Built Environment journal, a co-founder of Place Alliance, an Associate Lecturer at Oxford Brookes and an Associate Professor at UCL's Bartlett School of Planning. Ian and Lucy compiled the December 2022 edition of Built Environment and sought in so doing to explore ‘the power of plans'. This, they endeavoured to do, by way of a series of internationally commissioned case studies on grand plans that have been shown to work, asking how they worked and why. In this series Sam Stafford explores with Lucy and Ian three of those case studies. In this episode, in a conversation recorded remotely at the end of November 2022, Sam and Lucy talk to Bob Yaro about New York, a city that has experienced rapid growth, rapid decline and an impressive economic turnaround. New York has long been planned on a city region scale, but the origin of it's series of great plans lies in a small number of planning pioneers and philanthropists. That economic turnaround has much to do, despite it not having a statutory function, with the Regional Planning Association, with which Bob is heavily involved and who's role he describes as “advancing ideas whose time has not yet come". Some accompanying reading. Built Environment – The Power of Plans https://www.alexandrinepress.co.uk/built-environment/power-plans Ian's recommendation. The Power Broker: Robert Moses and the Fall of New York by Robert Caro https://www.theguardian.com/books/2015/oct/23/the-power-broker-robert-moses-and-the-fall-of-new-york-robert-caro-review Some accompanying listening. Ian's recommendation. New York, New York by Tony Bennett and Frank Sinatra https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qzCdxrfcAtc Bob's recommendation Take The A Train by Duke Ellington https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cb2w2m1JmCY Sam's recommendation. The Only Living Boy in New York by Everything But The Girl https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xgA6cpPNXEk 50 Shades T-Shirts! If you have listened to Episode 45 of the 50 Shades of Planning Podcast you will have heard Clive Betts say that... 'In the Netherlands planning is seen as part of the solution. In the UK, too often, planning is seen as part of the problem'. Sam said in reply that that would look good on a t-shirt and it does. Further details can be found here: http://samuelstafford.blogspot.com/2021/07/50-shades-of-planning-t-shirts.html

This episode is part of an international triumvirate, which has been put together with the help of old friend of the podcast, Ian Wray, and new friend of the podcast, Lucy Natarajan. Ian, regular listeners will know, is a Professor at the Heseltine Institute for Public Policy, Practice and Place at University of Liverpool. Lucy is one of the editors of the Built Environment journal, a co-founder of Place Alliance, an Associate Lecturer at Oxford Brookes and an Associate Professor at UCL's Bartlett School of Planning. Ian and Lucy compiled the December 2022 edition of Built Environment and sought in so doing to explore ‘the power of plans'. This, they endeavoured to do, by way of a series of internationally commissioned case studies on grand plans that have been shown to work, asking how they worked and why. In this series Sam Stafford explores with Lucy and Ian three of those case studies. In this episode, in a conversation recorded remotely at the end of November 2022, Sam and Lucy to Jim Steer about Dublin, to which, by common consensus, town planning in the 1960s and 1970s was not kind, with large-scale road building to serve car-dependent suburbs and little investment in public transport. In the early 1990s though an EU-funded Dublin Transportation Initiative put the city on a new path… Some accompanying reading. Built Environment – The Power of Plans https://www.alexandrinepress.co.uk/built-environment/power-plans The Dublin Transportation Initiative https://voicesofsteer.steergroup.com/post/102i3aj/the-importance-of-process-in-planning-the-dublin-transportation-initiative-par Jim recommends the following by Frank McDonald: The Destruction of Dublin, Gill and Macmillan, 1985Saving the City, Tomar, 1989Ireland's Earthen Houses (jointly with Peigin Doyle), A&A Farmar, 1997The Ecological Footprint of Cities (editor), International Institute for the Urban Environment, 1998The Daily Globe: Environmental change, the public and the media (contributor), Earthscan, 2000The Construction of Dublin, Gandon Editions, 2000 Some accompanying listening. Jim's recommendation. Summer in Dublin by Bagatelle https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MMhWll_mfGk Ian's recommendation. The Maids of Mitchelstown by The Boty Band https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jVE7gZ1GnBc Sam's recommendation Big by Fontaines DC https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aiLk6G5N-3Y 50 Shades T-Shirts! If you have listened to Episode 45 of the 50 Shades of Planning Podcast you will have heard Clive Betts say that... 'In the Netherlands planning is seen as part of the solution. In the UK, too often, planning is seen as part of the problem'. Sam said in reply that that would look good on a t-shirt and it does. Further details can be found here: http://samuelstafford.blogspot.com/2021/07/50-shades-of-planning-t-shirts.html

This episode is part of an international triumvirate, which has been put together with the help of old friend of the podcast, Ian Wray, and new friend of the podcast, Lucy Natarajan. Ian, regular listeners will know, is a Professor at the Heseltine Institute for Public Policy, Practice and Place at University of Liverpool. Lucy is one of the editors of the Built Environment journal, a co-founder of Place Alliance, an Associate Lecturer at Oxford Brookes and an Associate Professor at UCL's Bartlett School of Planning. Ian and Lucy compiled the December 2022 edition of Built Environment and sought in so doing to explore ‘the power of plans'. This, they endeavoured to do, by way of a series of internationally commissioned case studies on grand plans that have been shown to work, asking how they worked and why. In this series Sam Stafford explores with Lucy and Ian three of those case studies. In this episode, in a recording made online in June 2023, Ian and Sam talk about Shenzen with Mee Kam Ng. Shenzen is a city that, when designated as China's first Special Economic Zone in the late 1970s was a border town with a population of less than 250,000 and is now the country's ‘Silicon Valley', with a population of over 17 million. Some accompanying reading. Built Environment – The Power of Plans https://www.alexandrinepress.co.uk/built-environment/power-plans Ian's recommendation. How Asia Works by Joe Studwell https://groveatlantic.com/book/how-asia-works/#:~:text=In%20How%20Asia%20Works%2C%20Joe,Asia%20and%20why%2C%20and%20for Mee Kam's recommendations Theorising Urban Planning in a Transitional Economy: The Case of Shenzhen, People's Republic of China https://www.jstor.org/stable/pdf/40112599.pdf Strategic Planning of China's First Special Economic Zone: Shenzhen City Master Plan (2010–2020) https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/14649357.2011.626316 The Story of Shenzhen https://www.metropolis.org/sites/default/files/resources/the_story_of_shenzhen_2nd_edition_sep_2019_0.pdf Spatial Planning for Smart Sustainable Development? https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/14649357.2022.2139075 Some accompanying listening. Mee Kam's recommendation. Story of Spring (Guangdong Province's 30th Anniversary of Reform and Opening Up) by Dong Wenhua https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gfRHaKwvOxs 50 Shades T-Shirts! If you have listened to Episode 45 of the 50 Shades of Planning Podcast you will have heard Clive Betts say that... 'In the Netherlands planning is seen as part of the solution. In the UK, too often, planning is seen as part of the problem'. Sam said in reply that that would look good on a t-shirt and it does. Further details can be found here: http://samuelstafford.blogspot.com/2021/07/50-shades-of-planning-t-shirts.html

How do we encourage more women to embrace a career in tech sales?This episode marks the return of Lisa Occleshaw, an accomplished sales leader and lover of people, to the Sales Code Leadership Podcast. Kevin and Lisa delve into the transformative power of enablement within sales teams and emphasize the significance of teamwork. Lisa shares her personal journey as a sales professional, recounting experiences ranging from being the sole woman among 35 applicants vying for a sales role to eventually leading her own team, all while imparting valuable lessons she has gained along the way.If you want to learn more about Lisa, here is what she has to say: “I began my career in IT Sales by accident and have stayed for 28 years so far! I grew up in the Midlands and graduated with a degree in Accounting from Oxford Brookes - it was the Poly when I went in. Trouble was I didn't want to be an accountant! So doing a temp job at a very small software reseller opened up my eyes to Technology and also that I quite enjoyed the sales process.Jump forward to 2021 and after a long stint at IBM, followed by a spell at SAP I am now Head of UK Sales for a fabulous Identity vendor called Ping. I am married with a 16 year old son and I live not too far from the sea. I have all sorts of hobbies, which have become more important than ever to me since the pandemic. 9 hours a day in front of the laptop has driven all of us to things outside of work and for me those things are Interior Design (we are building our new house), weight-lifting, hiking and singing. But most of all I love people. I like watching them, listening to them, learning from them and helping them when I can. I am an only child and get my energy from being with others... especially customers!”Connect with Lisa here. The podcast is brought to you by Sales Code, helping revenue leaders unlock added value in B2B SaaS sales teams. Your views on our podcast are always welcome, as well as any questions you might have for our podcast guests.Connect with host Kevin Thiele here.

Today I have the pleasure of speaking with Joe Morris, the architect spearheading Morris+Company across two studios, one in the creative district of London's Hackney, and the other in Copenhagen. In a career spanning 25 years of professional practice which has achieved widespread international recognition, Joe has increasingly advocated a sense of urgency for fair and transparent practice, inclusivity, and equality, through open dialogue and critical debate, whilst encouraging the broader company to take ownership of projects and develop their own careers and interests. Joe has represented the practice on a global platform, lecturing on the work of the studio in many leading UK universities, as well as in Barcelona, Bilbao, Buenos Aires, Copenhagen, Hamburg, Liege, and Romania. He has taught at the Bartlett School of Architecture in London, the Universidad de Navarra in Pamplona and the La Salle School of Architecture in Barcelona and has been a visiting examiner at Plymouth and Oxford Brookes universities.  Joe is a founding participator in London on a global self-initiated research program exploring a world view on cities across Europe and has also contributed to a number of local authority design review panels, including Lewisham, Brent, Hackney, and currently, Southwark.   In today's episode, we will be discussing: Moving towards a B - Corporation Practice Ethos, and values and find harmony with clients' business agendas Creating a new office in a new city   To learn more about Joe visit his:  Website: https://morrisand.company/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/moco_arch Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/moco_arch/?hl=en

In this episode of Last Stroke Counts, we sit down with Rory Cruickshank, owner of the UK's leading rowing media company, AllMarkOne. Rory shares his journey from being a junior international cox, setting a BUCS course record with Oxford Brookes, to running an incredibly successful media business from the age of 15.  As one of the UK's most influential and recognisable brands in rowing, Rory shares insights on the vision for AllMarkOne and what has made it successful thus far. He takes us on a journey into how AllMarkOne innovated, overcame and adapted through difficulties to becoming an official partner to numerous large rowing events today.  With unyielding determination and an excellent radar for opportunities, Rory embodies the competitive spirit of a true rower in the challenging world of business. In our conversation, we delve into the full spectrum of managing a media giant in the world of competitive sports.  We talk about how to use lessons from your career and translate them into business, the importance of performance motivators for effective team management, as well as drawing many parallels between rowing, business, and entrepreneurship, plus the unique strategies that keep AllMarkOne well ahead of the curve. So, tune in and join us for this great discussion, and gain an insider's perspective on the rowing industry from behind the lens, where every last stroke truly counts.

In this episode of Last Stroke Counts, we're pleased to welcome the influential and seasoned figure in rowing, who's coached and led multiple crews to numerous Henley Royal Regatta victories and international medals, Ben Lewis. He joins us to unpack the secrets of transforming pressure into success, both within rowing and life. With his extensive experience as an athlete and coach at Britain's top clubs and organisations, including Leander, Oxford Brookes, Thames, and Molesey, Ben provides an insightful perspective on the power of mastering the basics in the sport of rowing. Throughout our discussion, we delve deep into the nuances of creating a robust club culture, developing crews, and staying calm under pressure, drawing parallels with the military. The conversation is laden with Ben's brilliant advice, highlighting how to navigate stress and tilt the odds in your favour for success, a lesson applicable far beyond the boat. Ben's humorous and inspiring anecdotes from his rowing journey, his outlook for the future of the sport, and his wisdom on coaching and winning in rowing add a unique flavour to the discussion. So, tune in and buckle up for a chat with Ben Lewis as we explore the art of turning pressure into victory and making every last stroke count.

Dame Sara Thornton DBE QPM is a Professor of Modern Slavery Policy at the Rights Lab in the University of Nottingham where her focus is on research in the area of prevention, business responses, supply chains, and the role of the financial sector in tackling modern slavery. She is particularly focussed on the important role of investors and works as a modern slavery consultant for CCLA Investment Management.Dame Sara completed a three-year term as the UK Independent Anti-Slavery Commissioner in April 2022, a role in which she spearheaded the UK's fight against human trafficking and modern slavery. She joined the Metropolitan Police Service in 1986. During her 33-year career within policing she served as Chief Constable of Thames Valley Police from 2007 until 2015. She was the national lead on intelligence; Vice-Chair of ACPO Terrorism and Allied Matters; Director of the Police National Assessment Centre; and ACPO Vice-President. She was the first Chair of the National Police Chiefs' Council from 2015 to 2019. She was awarded the Queen's Police Medal in 2006, made a Commander of the Order of the British Empire in 2011 and a Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire in 2019. She has been recognised with a Career Achievement Award from the Police Training Authority Trustees and the Sir Robert Peel Medal for Outstanding Leadership in Evidence-Based Policing. She is an Honorary Air Commodore in the Royal Air Force supporting the work of the auxiliary police squadron, Chair of the Government Skills and Curriculum Unit Leadership Advisory Board, and a trustee and board member of the Police Foundation.She is an Honorary Professor in Modern Slavery at the University of Liverpool and holds honorary doctorates from Durham University, Oxford Brookes and Buckinghamshire New University. Dame Sara's top tip is to eat the frog for breakfast - get the nasty things over and done with. It is always tempting to procrastinate, to delay tough decisions, but that only leads to worry. A leader needs to be thinking clearly and not weighed down by worrying about things that they should have done. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Welcome to The Nonlinear Library, where we use Text-to-Speech software to convert the best writing from the Rationalist and EA communities into audio. This is: EA Architect: Dissertation on Improving the Social Dynamics of Confined Spaces & Shelters Precedents Report, published by Tereza Flidrova on June 6, 2023 on The Effective Altruism Forum. TL;DR In this post, I will share the work I have done on the topic of civilisational shelters (1), (2), over the last year as an architecture master's student. I will share my dissertation on improving the social dynamics of confined spaces, including a practical design guide that can be used to design new or evaluate and improve existing confined spaces. I will also share the Shelters Precedents Report Draft I worked on last spring. Key links from this post include: My dissertation in pdf or flipbook formats Link to the Wellbeing Worksheet, an interactive design guide proposed in my dissertation Video summarising the research and findings (especially useful if you want to learn about my design proposal and the design guide) Link to the Shelters Precedents Report Draft Outline Since last spring, I have explored ways to get involved in EA with my skills as an architect. So far, I wrote this and this article about my ideas and journey of becoming the ‘EA Architect', and have also started to help anyone with architectural or planning background get involved through the EA Architects and Planners group. One of the key areas I got involved in was civilisational shelters. This summer, I am going to Zambia to intern with the Charter Cities Institute. This post has two parts: Part 1: My architectural research-led dissertation on ‘Improving the Social Dynamics of Confined Spaces Located in Extreme Environments'; Part 2: Sharing the Shelters Precedents Report Draft I developed last spring and so far only shared internally. Part 1: Improving the Social Dynamics of Confined Spaces Located in Extreme Environments After co-organising the SHELTER Weekend last summer (see this post by Janne for a summary of what has been discussed), as well as studying various precedents and talking to many experts, I concluded that the best way I can contribute to the shelters work is by understanding what influences the social dynamics of very confined spaces. Hence, I chose this as my master's thesis at Oxford Brookes. Why I did it Global catastrophes, such as nuclear wars, pandemics, asteroid collisions or biological risks, threaten the very existence of mankind (Beckstead, 2015). These challenges have caused people to consider distant locations such as polar regions, deep sea, outer space, and even underground facilities as potential locations to seek safety during such crises (Beckstead, 2015; Jebari, 2015). However, living in confined spaces for prolonged periods brings prominent social challenges that might prevent their long-term success (Jebari, 2015). To ensure the successful habitation of confined spaces, special attention needs to be given to their design, allowing humans to survive and thrive long-term. While there is existing research on the design of specific confined spaces, like the design of research stations in polar regions (Bannova, 2014; Palinkas, 2003), space stations (Basner, Dinges, et al., 2014; Harrison et al., 1985), prisons (Karthaus et al., 2019; Lily Bernheimer, Rachel O'Brien, Richard Barnes, 2017), biospheres testing space habitation (Nelson et al., 1994; Zabel et al., 1999) or nuclear bunkers (Graff, 2017; NPR, 2011), there seems to be a lack of a comprehensive architectural framework that can be utilised by designers of confined spaces in extreme environments to help improve their liveability. This is despite the fact there has been much research on the impacts of the physical environment (Klitzman and Stellman, 1989), including staying indoors (Rashid and Zimring, 2008), thermal comfort (Levin, 1995), the impact of light (Basner, Babisch, et al., 2014) and noise (Levin, 1995) on ...

We continue our series on Bruce Lee in this 50th anniversary year with 'Bruce Lee: A Kinetic Analysis for CGI Reconstruction', by Dr John Twycross (Oxford Brookes University)

In this episode of Last Stroke Counts, we're excited to have Rory Copus, a renowned coach with a wealth of experience currently leading Wolfson College and Abingdon School. He is a Henley Royal Regatta winner with Oxford Brookes, former GB international cox and a passionate advocate for the sport. Rory's knowledge of the sport shines through as he dives deep into the exciting world of Bumps Racing, traditions, tactics, nuances and strategies. He shares a detailed breakdown of what makes Torpids and Summer Eights so special, including a full run down the course and winning strategies that have helped his teams secure numerous victories, bumps, blades and headships over the last 12 years. Alongside sharing his experiences, Rory also discusses the rewarding aspects of coaching, the challenges of coxing at the highest levels, and his enduring love for rowing. We delve into the journeys of his favourite races, rowing venues and many other incredible stories. So, tune in & join us for a chat with Rory Copus, as we uncover the blueprint for success in Bumps Racing, where every last stroke truly counts!

This weeks podcast is sponsored by The San Diego Crew Classic, this week the staff of Oxford Brookes, Director of Rowing Richard Spratley, Head Coach Henry Bailhache-Webb and Assistant Coach Chris Tebb . Likely the best program for of all University and Elite  Rowing.  Topics Recruitment process, GB University and Elite development, Recent racing, Crew Classic Expectations for men ands the women, Why they use the equipment they use , Boat Race fixtures, USA athletes and notable alumni, The culture , The Hype , The winning!  

Sophie Flynn is a Cotswolds based psychological thriller author with an MA in Creative Writing from Oxford Brookes. Her debut novel ALL MY LIES (SImon & Schuster, 2021) was hailed 'a real page-turner' by Sophie Hannah. Her latest novel, KEEP THEM CLOSE (Hera, 2022) was called 'A splendidly twisty psychological mystery' by the Daily Mail.Alongside writing, Sophie is the Head of Marketing at Jericho Writers. After being awarded a place at Swanwick Writers' Summer School on the TopWrite scheme for young writers in 2017, Sophie began writing short fiction. She has since had many stories published and placed in competitions with organisations such as Writing Magazine and The Cheltenham Literature Festival.When not writing, Sophie can be mostly found on muddy walks with her husband and rescue dog or disappearing to Cornwall whenever possible.She is represented by Kate Nash of Kate Nash Literary Agency.Sophie tweets from @sophielflynnOur show intro sponsor is Anya Pavelle. @AnyaPavelle on Twitter. You can find her book, The Garden of Stone Houses here: https://amzn.to/3XzuQScIf They Knew: (A completely gripping, twisty and unputdownable psychological thriller)'Grips from the first page. An emotive thriller which I couldn't put down.' Carys Jones, author of We Are All LiarsWhat would you hide to get everything you ever wanted?After years of infertility and heartbreak, Hannah and Charlie are finally going to get their dream family. Two-year-old Isabelle is a week away from being theirs; they just have to get through the final adoption approval process.But when a global popstar is found murdered at the celebrity members' club in their sleepy Oxfordshire village, Hannah fears her past is finally catching up with her. Exposing the truth could see her lose everything… her husband, Isabelle – perhaps even her life.But Hannah doesn't realise that Charlie has his own secrets, and, in trying to save her, has put them more at risk than she ever thought possible. As the couple get drawn in further to the murky world of celebrity and murder, they soon find themselves caught in a nightmare, forced to make terrible choices.How many bad things will a good person do to hold onto what they love?A twisty, utterly addictive psychological thriller that fans of Adele Parks and Lisa Jewell won't be able to put down.Buy it here: https://amzn.to/3EYYIjB______________________________________Find out more: www.TheWritingCommunityChatShow.ComTHE WCCS – TOGETHER AS ONE, WE GET IT DONE!If you would like to advertise your book on the show, to enroll in a book launch interview, or to have a WCCS social media shout out, visit here: https://www.buymeacoffee.com/TheWCCSFOLLOW US► Our website – https://www.thewritingcommunitychatshow.com► Universal link – https://linktr.ee/TheWCCS► Buy the show a coffee – https://www.buymeacoffee.com/TheWCCS► Use hashtag #TheWritingCommunityChatShow or #TheWCCS on social media to keep us current. This show will only succeed with your support!► Support us through #Patreon – https://www.patreon.com/WCCS► For our #FIVERR affiliate link click here (we will earn a little from you signing up through our link and more if you use the service. We back this service and have used it with great results! – https://fvrr.co/32SB6cs► For our PRO #WRITING AID affiliate link click here – https://prowritingaid.com/?afid=15286

The Future of Coaching Revisited - A Conversation with Herry Einzig Join Hetty Einzig and Yannick Jacob in conversation around the state of coaching now and in the future. Hetty first appeared on this podcast back in 2018 talking about the ideas from her book, The Future of Coaching and in this session, Yannick invites her to revisit the topic in the light of the many changes we've experienced since that time. Together, amongst many other things, they explore: Why a coach needs to understand themselvesWhether the coach is ever a neutral instrumentNew ideas on the future of coachingThe place of the body and somatic intelligenceContested realities and postcolonial dimensions in coachingThe place of ethical responsibility in coachingBecoming grounded as a coach for robust partneringBANI vs VUCA frameworks for thinkingThe place of knowledge and sharing in coachingThe place of training within coachingThe role and place of hope for the future About Hetty Einzig Hetty brings 25 years of psychology and executive coaching experience to global leadership development. A best-selling author, her career has spanned the arts, journalism, media, health and policy development in the private, public and voluntary sectors. She designs and delivers leader-coach and global culture change programmes. Key focuses are women's leadership, Transpersonal Coaching and regenerative approaches for contribution. She works ecosystemically and holistically founded on transpersonal psychology and informed by psychoanalysis and embodiment approaches. She teaches at the Irish Management Institute, is a Senior Associate Director with Common Purpose, and she coaches, teaches and facilitates in French. She is Association for Coaching Director of Publications Strategy and Executive Editor of Coaching Perspectives, the AC global magazine. Hetty holds a Masters in Psychoanalytic and Systemic Approaches to Organisational Consulting from the Tavistock Centre (UEL), a Certificate in Coaching Supervision from Oxford Brookes, a Masters in History of Art from the Courtauld Institute (UL), and a BA in languages from Cambridge University. She is married with two millennial daughters. The Future of Coaching: vision, leadership and responsibility in a transforming world Routledge 2017. ‘Radical Hope – a dimension of the soul rooted' in Holding the Hope: restoring psychological and spiritual agency in the face of Climate Change. PCCS Books forthcoming, January 2023. For more information on Transpersonal Coaching programmes For more information on Ecosystems Supervision groups Contact: einzig@hettyeinzig.co.uk http://www.hettyeinzig.com

Latest session from Spoken Label (Author / Artist / Writer Chat Podcast) features the amazing Kathryn Lund, author off "The things we left sleeping". Kathryn's bio advises "won the Blackwell Prize for her MA in Creative Writing at Oxford Brookes. As a writer with an invisible disability she often uses her work to explore issues of physical and mental health, as well as how we construct the conscious world around us. With undergrad and post grad qualifications in archaeology and teaching, she is continuously fascinated with how we make our worlds, inhabit them and re-express them. Kathryn is deeply influenced by her environmentalism, feminism and queer identity. She often explores themes of memory and loss, deeply influenced by the death of her mother within six weeks of a fatal cancer diagnosis. Her father is a cancer survivor. Despite many years spent at universities in the south she believes her voice is strongly northern. She is based in York and can sometimes be found at open mic nights in the city. You can contact Kathryn about her writing at: kathrynlundtheauthor@gmail.com Her book can be found at all the usual places and she has a website at: http://kathrynlundtheauthor.co.uk/

Welcome to The Conduit's podcast series, Service Please. This series will be focusing on ethical and sustainable hospitality, engaging with a diverse range of industry experts and a variety of individuals across different sectors, disciplines, roles and levels. From supply chains to sourcing, waste management to wellbeing and welfare – what problems need tackling and what does the future of hospitality look like? In this episode, we are joined by Robin Sheppard. Robin has been an hotelier for over 40 years, winning multiple awards and significant recognition for his work in the industry.  In 2000 Robin co-founded Bespoke Hotels which has grown into the UK's largest independent hotel group with over 200 properties. He has already won the Hotel Catey and then the Oxford Brookes award for Outstanding Contribution to the Hospitality Industry and most recently he won the AA Lifetime Achievement Award to the Industry. He is also the Government's Hospitality Sector Champion for Disabled People. Despite all of these accolades, Robin's greatest achievement has been to fight back from Guillain-Barre Syndrome, a completely paralysing illness. His slow recovery inspired him to launch the Blue Badge Access Awards to encourage better design and empathy from architects, interior designers and hospitality professionals alike. Quick Fire Round: What does hospitality mean to you? It means anticipation and preparing for any guest's arrival to be made to feel special, recognised, valued and cherished.  Desert Island Dish My death row dish would be a picnic in the hope that we might be able to have it outside and I could run away… But probably a delicious spaghetti Bolognese, I love Italian cooking. I'm told by Heston Blumenthal that by putting a little star anise into your Bolognese makes all of the difference.  Favourite season Spring, I love spring, flowers come into bloom, there's a sense of hope. Newsagent confectionary of choice I'm very fond of Picnics… I did go through a terrible period of Jaffa Cake addiction, but I did get that under control. Favourite restaurant Bibendum, for the beauty of the light and the stained glass.  The Hilton, Park Lane, for the views across London. Dins by Santi Toura, Majorca, for his incredible food.  Three words to describe the future of hospitality Expanding, levelling, joyful. 

Steve and Clare are joined by Tatiana Bachkirova, academic, educator, author, coach and supervisor. They discuss Tatiana's latest book; Coaching and Mentoring Supervision - Theory and Practice - exploring as they chat, working pluralistically, the variation that can be found in supervision, models, current research in the field of coaching and coach supervision, including the multiplicity of self and… Tatiana's elevator pitch to describe coaching supervision. Tatiana leads a developmental supervision group at Oxford Brookes, so if you're inspired by what you hear in this podcast, check out availability by mailing Tatiana at tbachkirova@brookes.ac.ukThe book we refer to is “Coaching and Mentoring Supervision - Theory and Practice”.

Hetty explores how transpersonal coaching takes us ‘beyond the person' and into the wider ecosystems in which we live and work, including the spiritual realm. Hetty and Simon share their own faith journeys that have shaped how they engage with this work. They discuss how spirituality is either ignored in the workplace because it is not relevant to a high-performance ‘modern' work culture and belongs in the private realm, or how it can be instrumentalised i.e. take this mindfulness course and your productivity will increase by 30% (which immediately turns a transpersonal opportunity into a secular, goal-focused activity. To work with a transpersonal frame is therefore challenging yet Hetty claims they are vitally important. She describes how this work needs to be embodied and how her yoga practice has helped her with this over the years. Hetty also shares how women's experiences have been marginalised, and the part they play in developing a transpersonal frame. We are facing very challenging times, and the answers will not come from more of the same. It is only by de-centering the human and recovering a sense of belonging to the whole that will bring hope and change to our current state of being. Hetty believes that focusing on the transpersonal is an essential part of this journey. Bio Hetty brings 25 years of psychology and executive coaching experience to global leadership development. A best-selling author, her career has spanned the arts, journalism, media, health, and policy development in the private, public and voluntary sectors. She designs and delivers leader-coach and global culture change programs. Key focuses are women's leadership, Transpersonal Coaching, and the regenerative contributions approach. She works ecosystemically and holistically founded on transpersonal psychology and informed by psychoanalysis and embodiment approaches. She teaches at the Irish Management Institute, is a Senior Associate Director with Common Purpose, and she coaches, teaches, and facilitates in French. Hetty is Director of Publications Strategy for the Association for Coaching and Executive Editor of the AC global magazine, Coaching Perspectives, now a leading publication in the field. Hetty holds a Masters in Psychoanalytic and Systemic Approaches to Organisational Consulting from the Tavistock Centre (UEL), a Certificate in Coaching Supervision from Oxford Brookes, a Masters in History of Art from the Courtauld Institute (UL), and a BA in languages from Cambridge University. She is married with two millennial daughters. Recent publications: The Future of Coaching: Vision, Leadership and Responsibility in a Transforming World published by Routledge. Her long-form essay on Radical hope: a dimension of the soul rooted will be published in the Autumn by PCCS Books in the collection of essays, Holding the Hope: Essays exploring psychological and spiritual responses and practices to climate change and extreme biodiversity loss. For more information on Transpersonal Coaching programmes For more information on Ecosystems Supervision programmes with Martin Vogel Contact: einzig@hettyeinzig.co.uk http://www.hettyeinzig.com

Progressive Britain History Project hosts, Laura Beers and Steven Fielding, speak to professor of modern and contemporary history at Oxford Brookes, Glen O'Hara, about Harold Wilson's impact and legacy. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Call to Action: The next RIBA President needs to be representative of its members! Time for the first worker at the helm.Earlier in the month we put out our Call to Action with an open letter and a form where Architecture workers could nominate themselves to run as part of our campaign. Well good news, we have four candidates who are working in the Architecture Industry.These people are not company owners, they have worked themselves up like YOU and are full of ambition. Hannah Deacon:Since 2019 I have been working as a Project Architect running multiple schemes through all design stages, including 2 projects currently on site. In 2021 I also became a RIBA Student Mentor for Oxford Brookes.Everyday is a constant battle to convince clients and consultants that zero carbon construction is essential instead of a 'nice to have'. This is exacerbated when challenged on my authority and experience as a young woman in a patriarchal elitist environment.My primary action as President would be to enact real change by making the RIBA 2030 Climate Challenge mandatory and strip practices of their chartership if they are not showing real commitment to reducing climate change.Benjamin Champion:I'm an architect at Sheehan Nagle Hartray Associates and I qualified in October 2020. Last year I ran for a national council seat and got half-way through the rounds of voting, and I'm currently organising an event for the London Festival of Architecture called ‘Ask an Architect' to raise money for charities tackling homelessness.Muyiwa Oki:Muyiwa Oki is an Architect in the Design and Digital team at construction consultancy, Mace Group. At his previous firm, Grimshaw Architects, Muyiwa was founder and chair of the Multi-Ethnic Group and Allies staff network and an external speaker and mentor for aspiring architects at the Grimshaw Foundation, which exists to encourage greater social mobility within architecture. In the wider industry, he's known for presenting at Practice Clinics focused on EDI leadership and participating in panels, events, and radio programmes on behalf of RIBA. Also, a regular contributor to the next generation of architects as an Ambassador for the Mayor of London: Design Future London challenge. Muyiwa is also co-founder of a design-tech venture called Modulor, focused on making Digital Twins of spaces affordable.Henry Pelly:Henry is a Principal Sustainability Consultant at Max Fordham LLP, an employee-owned environmental design practice.  Henry is RIBA chartered architect and was the Youth Commissioner for Sustainable Development on the RIBA Ethics and Sustainable Development Commission.  He is intent on putting all the recommendations of the commission into action.

This week, I'm speaking with Ackroyd Lowrie co-Founder and Director, Oliver Lowrie. Prior to starting Ackroyd Lowrie with partner Jon Ackroyd, Oliver spent 10 years working at Architype where he was responsible for developing a modular, timber-framed construction system that was used by several London Boroughs to deliver new Primary Schools and Nurseries. He studied at Sheffield University for his Part 1, and Oxford Brookes for his Part 2, and completed his training at Westminster in 2012. He regularly lectures on sustainable design at Nottingham University and has tutored at Oxford Brookes. Oliver's work has been exhibited at the Royal Academy as part of the Urban Utopias exhibition and has been published in Blueprint and FX Magazine. In this episode, Oliver shares his experience in running a fast-growing architecture practice, how investing in advisers early in the practice had paid itself back many times over, their approach to nurturing client and contractor relationships, and how they are optimizing every part of the practice and aligning it with their vision of building the cities of the future. THIS WEEK'S RESOURCES Access your free training at http://SmartPracticeMethod.com/ If you want to speak directly to our advisors, book a call at https://www.businessofarchitecture.com/call Oliver's LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/oliver-lowrie-63837b34 Ackroyd Lowrie https://www.ackroydlowrie.com/

Times were tough, storylines were cut short, resolutions were left unfinished, but it's simple, what could you achieve in the midst of all the chaos? Was there room for light at the end of the tunnel? Born in the UK, raised in Southern California while rowing for Marina Aquatic Center Junior Rowing, then getting recruited to join the Beavs & row D1 crew over at Oregon State University, and then moving back to the UK, in order to row for Oxford Brookes, is the journey of Mr. Alex Chick. An American Rower (mixed with a "spritz" of British ancestry) recalls his time training for his competitive youth crew team and the mental fortitude his team endured. Chick strongly believes that the "Marina Aquatic Center (MAC) Junior Men's Rowing Varsity 8+, and Class of 2020 was the epitome of 'The Lone Wolf' mindset". Do yourself a favor, and tune into how this So Cal Native found his "calling," in the wild 21st century.

Join my conversation with Dr Charlie Simpson about nutrition for rowers. How to fuel for different training sessions What to eat and when after exercising or strength training Supplements (BCAA, Beta Alanine, Protein etc...) Are all calories the same What to watch out for in diets Options for vegetarians Go to the episode webpage to download free material. www.whchambers.com Dr Charlie Simpson, Senior Lecturer in Sport and Exercise Science at Oxford Brookes University B.S. Kinesiology (University of Texas at Austin), MapplSci Applied Exercise and Sport Science (University of Sydney), PGCert Academic Practice (University of Reading), PhD Biomedical Sciences-Human Physiology (University of Aberdeen) Links My Fitness Pal https://www.myfitnesspal.com EXR Rowing game https://exrgame.com Hydrow indoor rowing https://hydrow.com Books Advanced rowing. International Perspectives On High Performance. The Complete Guide To Indoor Rowing.

Caroline Dewast works in the humanitarian sector, working in crisis situations, conflict zones and natural disasters. Caroline is currently working from Kinshasa in the Democratic Republic of Congo, for the UN Refugee Agency. Before this, she worked for the Norwegian Refugee Council and for the International Federation of the Red Cross and the Red Crescent. For her humanitarian work she's lived in the Philippines, Gaza, Peru and Fiji and she's worked in Greece, Ukraine, Afghanistan, Iran, Nigeria, Cameroon, Myanmar and Bangladesh. I invited Caroline not only because she has followed her purpose with great courage and passion but also because before doing this, she had started her career in London as an architect. She's got a lot to say about what it takes to follow your purpose and about making a career change.Listen to her story here or on your usual podcast player.Show Notes7'00 - What drew her to social-related work.11'08 - Helping building shelters after an earthquake south of Lima.12'30 - Wanting from an early age to be useful, to have an impact and do something that has a purpose.16'09 - Pivotal moment in her career: work for a local NGO upgrading slums.20'08 - Noticing being bored while working in a renowned architecture practice while others loved it.24'30 - A lot of questioning about her past choices when she came back in London during the 2008 financial crisis.26'02 - Volunteered in Architecture Sans Frontieres.27'17 - Choosing to do her Master's degree in Oxford Brookes despite being accepted in “better” universities. 28'05 - Deciding to qualify as an architect despite wanting to focus on her development career. 28'58 - Having the architect title gives her credibility in her work.30'26 - Quit her architecture job the day she passed her exam.31'54 - Sent over 30 job applications to go help in Haiti after the earthquake and she got an unpaid internship in Geneva.33'47 - One way to get a job in the humanitarian sector, take a one-way ticket to a place with a crisis and hang-out with the aid workers there. 37'35 - Caroline's great tips on networking.43'10 - Finally getting her first paid job and getting sent to “the field”.49'32 - What's been most rewarding in her career so far? 53'23 - What's been most challenging? 56'21 - Accepting that you can't fix anything, you can only help to make things less bad.59'19 - You can never have it all.1''00'29 - Being a woman as an international aid worker in conflict or crisis situations.1''01'48 - Women discrimination in Western cultures vs other societies.1''04'14 - Working with your gut feeling.

This latest episode marks something of a departure for the Poetry Centre podcast. If you're a regular or just occasional listener to this podcast, you'll know that it normally features a poet in conversation about two or three of their poems. This episode is the first of a series in which Niall Munro talks with colleagues at Oxford Brookes University and showcases some of the very exciting research that they have been doing into poets and poetry. In this episode, Niall Munro talks with Dr Dinah Roe, Reader in Nineteenth-Century Literature here at Oxford Brookes. Dinah is an expert on Christina Rossetti, Victorian poetry, and the Pre-Raphaelites. During this past semester Dinah has run discussion groups and contributed an introduction to a Weekly Poem featuring Rossetti's work that you can still find on our website, and we're releasing this podcast on Sunday 5 December - Christina Rossetti's birthday. In the discussion with Dinah, we focus on three poems by Rossetti: 'The heart knoweth its own bitterness', 'Love understands the mystery', and ‘Goblin Market' and explore how Dinah came to be interested in Rossetti, the poet's reputation, and the place of religion in Rossetti's work. We also consider how Dinah's view of Rossetti has changed during her time working with her poetry and prose and in the course of writing a book about her family, and how Rossetti's experience as a carer affected her writing. Dinah received her BA from Vassar College and a PhD in English Literature from University College London. She is the author of Christina Rossetti's Faithful Imagination: The Devotional Poetry and Prose (Palgrave Macmillan, 2007) and The Rossettis in Wonderland: A Victorian Family History (Haus, 2011), and the editor of Christina Rossetti: Selected Poems (Penguin Classics, 2008) and The Pre-Raphaelites: From Rossetti to Ruskin (Penguin Classics, 2010). Dinah is currently writing a monograph on the interactions of literary and visual arts in Pre-Raphaelite art, taking into account the influence of nineteenth-century literature on book illustration, painting and the decorative arts from 1848 to the turn of the century. She is also editing a three volume edition of The Complete Poems of Christina Rossetti (Longman Annotated English Poets), due for publication in 2025. You can find out more about Dinah's work on her profile page on the Brookes website, and follow her on Twitter - find the links on our Podcasts page.

Our guest on the Sales Code Leadership Podcast this week is Lisa Occleshaw, whose brief bio serves as an introduction to what was a really informative discussion.Here is how Lisa describes herself and her journey in the technology sector:“I began my career in IT Sales by accident and have stayed for 28 years so far! I grew up in the Midlands and graduated with a degree in Accounting from Oxford Brookes - it was the Poly when I went in. Trouble was I didn't want to be an accountant! So doing a temp job at a very small software reseller opened up my eyes to Technology and also that I quite enjoyed the sales process.Jump forward to 2021 and after a long stint at IBM, followed by a spell at SAP I am now Head of UK Sales for a fabulous Identity vendor called Ping. I am married with a 16 year old son and I live not too far from the sea. I have all sorts of hobbies, which have become more important than ever to me since the pandemic. 9 hours a day in front of the laptop has driven all of us to things outside of work and for me those things are Interior Design (we are building our new house), weight-lifting, hiking and singing. But most of all I love people. I like watching them, listening to them, learning from them and helping them when I can. I am an only child and get my energy from being with others... especially customers!”Thank you, Lisa for a fascinating insight into what makes a great sales leader.#leaders #teamwork #employeeengagment #companyculturematters #coachingskills #cliftonstrengths

We're now in the second round of episodes of University Challenge, and starting things off we have the ever-entertaining St Johns matched up against Queen Mary, who we last saw square up against Oxford Brookes. Needless to say, there was a great deal to talk about this time, and not just about team performances.We also find the time to make a detour to about the film Cats, the joy of other people's dogs and the evolution of the English Geography Nerd....

Meet the team coaching genius and a man of true coaching essence, David Clutterbuck on The xMonks Drive podcast. Learn the definition of coaching, vision, and more in this new episode.Professor David Clutterbuck is credited with introducing sponsored mentorship to Europe in the early 1980s. He combines a wealth of research-based knowledge and experience to deliver a pragmatic, evidence-based approach to coaching, mentoring, and talent management as an EMCC Master Practitioner (EIA, ESIA, and IPMA).David is the author or co-author of almost 70 books. He is a visiting professor in four universities' departments of coaching and mentoring – Henley Business School, Oxford Brookes, Sheffield Hallam, and York St John – as well as a visiting lecturer at a number of overseas universities. David is a practice lead at Coaching and Mentoring International Limited, a global network of researchers, trainers, and consultants specializing in coaching and mentoring in over 100 countries.David's current research interests include coach maturity transitions, the role of artificial intelligence in coaching, the ripple impact of mentoring, and the democratization/decolonization of coaching. Among his numerous humanitarian endeavors is the goal of establishing five million coaches and mentors for children in elementary school.Outside of work, David's hobbies include the use of humor for social and emotional well-being, authoring children's books, ice skating, and traveling to distant regions of the world. Each year, he sets a new learning objective for himself.

When we're changing our drinking, we often talk about problem drinking versus normal drinking. But what does normal drinking actually mean? How do we include alcohol in our lives in an unproblematic way? Our podcast this week is a really fascinating discussion with Dr Emma Davies, senior lecturer in Psychology at Oxford Brookes University, who has researched drinking behaviour for over 10 years.Who is Dr Emma Davies?As well as being the Senior Lecturer in Psychology at Oxford Brookes, Dr Emma Davies joined the Global Drug Surveyas the Alcohol Lead. She's been directing and shaping alcohol questions and health messaging as part of the survey. Emma has also been conducting her own alcohol research for about 10 years. Her focus has been on our behavioural approach to alcohol consumption. That means what we intend to do versus what we actually do, and where these intentions begin to change. With very little previous research around the idea of normal drinking, Emma and her colleagues study the different stages of consumption to analyse what normal drinking looks like from the inside. Emma's research is a fascinating scientific reference for those interested in what moderation, abstinence, and the concept of drinking 'normally' really looks like.What is normal drinking?I don't think there is as much research on what the idea of normal drinking is... quite rightly, there's been a focus on the kind of treatment services or the development of tools that people can use to monitor their drinking. So the idea of what it means to just drink and be okay with it has not received as much evidence.Dr Emma DaviesThe idea of what is normal is ambiguous. What is normal for one person can be completely different for another. This is true no matter what it is in our lives that we're trying to change or achieve. Our interests, goals, achievements, level of stamina, and triggers will all be different. Emma's research has centred around what she calls the tipping point consumption. That is the point where we begin to feel out of control and unwell. A recent survey undertaken by Dr Emma and her team asked around 60,000 participants to note three distinct phases of their drinking:1. When they first feel the effects of drinking2. When they get to a stage of feeling intoxicated, or 'happy drunk'3. How many drinks it would take until they started to reach their tipping point between control and out of controlIt would be easy to assume that the survey would show that there is a definite number of drinks or units of alcohol per category. And, as Dr Emma Davies explains, their survey did find that in the UK, there was an average level of consumption of around 100 grams of alcohol to reach the happy drunk stage.The surprising outcome of this survey is how there is a large disparity between what people feel is a healthy, 'normal' drinking level and the official guidelines on low alcohol consumption. The study shows that counting units of alcohol and applying them to our daily drinking isn't something we do naturally. We tend to associate the need for guidelines with other people, whereas the reality is that our social situations, tolerances, and lifestyles play more of a part in what we're able to consume 'normally' over time.Support the show (https://joinclubsoda.com/product/tip-jar-support-club-soda/)

And now we can't get the image of the reanimated corpse of Queen Mary herself facing off against Oxford, Brookes in this fifth episode of University Challenge. Join us as we talk about Dmitri Shostakovich's musings on a train to Italy sometime in the mid 20th century and Russia's greatest love machine. Stay tuned till the end for our famed best dressed segment.

Uporaba lijekova za ublažavanje boli tijekom porođaja uobičajena je diljem svijeta. Ažurirani Cochraneov sustavni pregled iz lipnja 2018. razmatra upotrebu skupine lijekova koji se zovu opioidi. Glavna autorica, Lesley Smith sa Sveučilišta Oxford Brookes iz Velike Britanije, prenosi nam što su pronašli. Magdalena Kurbanović, primalja i međunarodno priznata savjetnica za dojene, prevela je razgovor, a docentica Irena Zakarija-Grković, su-voditeljica Hrvatskog Cochranea, s Medicinskog fakulteta u Splitu, će ga pročitati.

Uporaba lijekova za ublažavanje boli tijekom porođaja uobičajena je diljem svijeta. Ažurirani Cochraneov sustavni pregled iz lipnja 2018. razmatra upotrebu skupine lijekova koji se zovu opioidi. Glavna autorica, Lesley Smith sa Sveučilišta Oxford Brookes iz Velike Britanije, prenosi nam što su pronašli. Magdalena Kurbanović, primalja i međunarodno priznata savjetnica za dojene, prevela je razgovor, a docentica Irena Zakarija-Grković, su-voditeljica Hrvatskog Cochranea, s Medicinskog fakulteta u Splitu, će ga pročitati.

I am a firecracker from Colorado. I am a graduate from Iowa State with a degree in Journalism Mass Communication, and a double Minor in Psych and International Studies. I have played soccer since I was two and have been honored to play Division 1 soccer for Iowa State University where I studied abroad for a month to learn Spanish. Through this experience I have found my love of sports casting and completed impressive internships to help me hone my skills and leadership abilities for this field. Through my time with the Iowa Cubs videography team, Athlete Network intern and my recent time as the Sports Intern for KCCI News, I have been able to add to my portfolio while growing my confidence. I will attend Oxford Brookes University in Headington England, to receive my Masters in Journalism this coming year.At 23 I can say I am proud to be who I am. I have achieved every goal I have set my sights on. When I was seven years old I decided I wanted to play D1 women's soccer in college before I even knew how to juggle. All I knew was that I loved to work hard, I loved to compete; I loved having a dream to chase. I was told I would never make the best team in the state; I did. I was told I would never get a collegiate offer. I was recruited by 9 different Division 1 programs, and verbally committed to play Division 1 soccer in 2013 when I was offered a scholarship to play at the University of Arkansas as a Freshman in High school. I ended up transferring out, and the head coach told me I would never make it off the bench at any college. I have started for Iowa State and had a very successful career. I am constantly having my intelligence undermined because I am blond, female and positive. I have been on the deans list since attending Iowa State, I win First team Big 12 academic award every semester and am on scholarship for my upcoming graduate school. I am now going on to play soccer in England for Oxford Brookes, with other offers from four different English Universities and a program in Florence, Italy. As a strong female, I intend to take the sports casting world by storm and provide others the example of just what tenacity can do; especially women who feel they are being undermined, I want to inspire them to speak up and pursue all they can. The bottom line is everyone can have an opinion and you can respect that, but no-one can tell you what you're capable of or stop you from achieving your dreams. As a journalist and videographer, I promise to live by the following statements:I will take responsibility for the accuracy of my work.I will verify all facts prior to releasing it to the public.I will use original sources whenever possible.I will use honesty and fairness to build my credibility and trust.I will ensure every person is treated with dignity and respect.I will ensure the work place is safe from sexual harassment, racism and other intolerable acts by using my voice and having an observant eye.I will always work hard to do the story justice in its truth.I will not manufacture the truth in what is being documented by interfering with the subject at hand.I will hold myself and those around me to the highest standard, and I will report when the standard is not met.I will not sacrifice myself or integrity in order to achieve, release a story or support a coworker

In the latest episode of Boom! It's on the blockchain we discuss vertical wind turbines, energy tokens pitch deck and Caitlyn Jenner for Governor of California. A research team from the School of Engineering, Computing and Mathematics (ECM) at Oxford Brookes led by Professor Iakovos Tzanakis conducted an in-depth study using more than 11,500 hours of computer simulation to show that wind farms can perform more efficiently by substituting the traditional propeller-type Horizontal Axis Wind Turbines (HAWTs), for compact Vertical Axis Wind Turbines (VAWTs). ​​​​​​​​​ Prior to Energy Tokens (i) direct investments in energy producing assets have been made exclusively through negotiated private transactions through parties in direct and personal contact with one another, (ii) the transfer of even the smallest interests in energy producing assets have required negotiated contracts and physical document filings in antiquated local land registries and (iii) the information to support making and monitoring such investments is not readily available to owners and other stakeholders or preserved in a complete and unalterable form for the life of the project and beyond. ​​​​​​​​​ These limitations (i) add significant cost and redundancies to the purchase, sale and monitoring of energy assets, (ii) cut-off access to this asset class to global retail and institutional investors who are not energy industry participants, and (iii) destroy opportunities for liquidity by holders of non-controlling interests in energy producing assets. The current state of affairs has remained unchanged for over 100 years, resulting in a persistent lack of liquidity for current owners and a lack of opportunity for prospective investors. ​​​​​​​​​ The Energy Tokens platform has been developed to address these inherent problems by democratizing energy investment opportunities, creating liquidity for illiquid energy investments, and facilitating better access to capital for energy development projects. ​​​​​​​​​ Arnold Schwarzenegger is sharing some words of advice for Caitlyn Jenner, days after she announced that she is running to become the next governor of California. ​​​​​​​​​ Schwarzenegger added that whoever emerges as the governor from the upcoming recall vote — whether it's incumbent Gavin Newsom or a challenger — would have to implement changes to "straighten out all the mess we're in right now." ​​​​​​​​​ Visit http://www.ziyen.com​​​​​​ for more information about Ziyen Energy ​​​​​​​​​ Visit http://www.energytokens.io​​​​ to learn more about tokenizing energy ​​​​​​​​​ Learn More - Financial White Paper ​​​​​​​​​ The groundbreaking work of Ziyen Energy and the development of ZiyenCoin, an asset backed blockchain energy token, has been the subject of an in-depth analysis by leading Professors and Researchers from Columbia University, University of Florida and University of Michigan. Alastair Caithness was also a co-author in the financial whitepaper; ​​​​​​​​​ 'Finance Infrastructure Through Blockchain-based Tokenization' ​​​​​​​​​ This has been published in Frontiers of Engineering Management Financial Journal, and is available to access through Springer - https://link.springer.com/article/10....​ ​​​​​​​​​ Subscribe to our LinkedIn Newsletter: Blockchain, Energy & Tokens - https://lnkd.in/gGvNgTY​​​​​​​​​​ ​​​​​​​​​ Follow Alastair Caithness on LinkedIn for daily updates - https://lnkd.in/gjEGrDg​​​​​​​​​​ ​​​​​​​​​

What is the difference between RIBA Part 1 & 2? We were wondering the same thing! Who better to answer than someone going through it? Brad shares his experience working as a part 1 Architectural assistant and his transition into Part 2 education. Touching on the exploitation of newly grads, salary, and preparation for next steps… Sounds interesting? Listen Now! Meet Brad Mortlock, a Part 1 Architectural Designer from Oxford Brookes. His work explores the notions of cognitive behavioural therapy as he practices residential architecture through his London-based practice. In this episode, Brad his journey from Part 1 to Part 2. Outside of architecture Brad runs a successful online custom trainer side-hustle (@customzbybrad ) and is a freelancer as an award-winning artist, graphic designer and illustrator. Our mission at 1:100 Architecture Podcast is giving people just like us the confidence to thrive with originality, creativity and innovation. Our aim is to provide the best relatable content, design tips and architectural conversation for those of diverse backgrounds to be confident in their abilities. Stay up to date @1to100podcast Get in touch 1to100podcast@gmail.com

Anna Neale is my latest Nostalgia Interview guest, and it was a huge pleasure to meet up with Anna who is a music industry professional. Anna is an artist, songwriter, composer, engineer and producer, she has toured the world, and released three albums. Anna has also served on various music industry committees including the Ivors and has been in the music industry for 20 years.  Anna, who is based at the University of Kent, talks about how academia is a form of performance and how there are other industry professionals who have made a similar journey into academia. She compares putting out an album to putting out a research paper. Anna’s research focuses on songwriting in industry practice, and she talks about how she has always been business savvy. She also examines the implications of technology on songwriting and discusses how we are living in an attention economy – where time, not money, is what is precious. There is a disassociation now between the artist and the fan, and Anna talks about how there is no loyalty to a track on Spotify in the way there used to be with vinyl. We have access to everything instantly these days. She went to the same school as Paul Weller and she tells us where she stands on Oasis vs. Blur. Anna talks about how students today will listen to music she heard when she was their age, which didn’t happen with previous generations, and she discusses the difference between analogue and digital sound. Radio was the be all and end all when she was growing up, but Spotify has taken its place – and Anna tells us whether she thinks radio is still relevant. She also questions why the charts are still there in their present format and why the mainstream charts could be seen as a dying breed that the industry is trying to flog. We learn that Anna studied music at Oxford Brookes and was a member of The Commitments. She talks about how her degree opened up a new way of looking at songwriting, and we also discover that she did a project 10 years ago on Pompeii with Mary Beard. Towards the end of the interview, we learn that Anna’s memories are mainly positive, and she talks about campaigning for women on what is the the darker side of the music industry. We learn that when you’re a creative practitioner it can be dangerous to go too far down the nostalgia path and that keeping yourself in the present allows you to remain fresh, and that art can be a good way of keeping nostalgia in check.To find out more about Anna go to her website: Anna Neale. Please note: Opinions expressed are solely those of Chris Deacy and Anna Neale and do not necessarily represent the views or opinions of the University of Kent.

Host Phil Llewellyn with guests review some of the many great podcasts, books, articles and webinars from the last week. This week's guests:Danny Newcombe, Oxford Brookes senior lecturer in Sport, Coaching and PE, Coach Educator and Wales Men's Hockey national team head coach. Michael Ashford, Coventry University lecturer in Sport Coaching and Coach Educator. Luke Taylor, Oxford Brookes lecturer in Sport and Coaching Sciences and Physical Performance Coach for the FA.The team pick out the key takeaways from each piece of great content and say how to use it on the pitch, at all the levels of the game.This week's content:The Varieties of Human Work – Steven ShorrockAttentional Focus and Cueing for Speed Development – Nick Winkelman What works in coach learning, how, and for whom? A grounded process of soccer coaches’ professional learning – Stodter & Cushion, (2017)SUGGESTED CONTENT/WHAT YOU MIGHT HAVE MISSEDA Move Towards Reconceptulising Direct Instruction In Sport Coaching Pedagogy – Cope & Cushion, (2020)All Alone We Go Faster, Together We Go Further: The Necessary Evolution of Professional and Elite Sporting Environment to Bridge the Gap Between Research and Practice – Brocherie & Beard, (2021)Sports Principles – Sam JarmanHow Learning Happens - Paul Kirschner and Carl Hendrick

Welcome to the first Doing It episode of 2021! In this episode, Hannah is joined by Andy Thornton (they/he), who is a bigender illustrator, sex educator for the School of Sexuality Education, and Stonewall's Person of Faith role model. Andy discusses their experience being queer and non-binary as well as what being bigender means to him and how the way they identify relates to being a Christian. He and Hannah talk about the difference between tolerating and affirming Christian communities, social constructs of gender, and go on a tangent about language and sexual orientation. Finally, Hannah and Andy also discuss autism and vaginismus. It's a jam-packed episode this week!MORE ABOUT ANDY THORNTONI'm a Stonewall LGBTQ+ Person of Faith Role Model so I make noise about how God loves queers, and I mentor young people who are struggling with their Christian and queer identities and help them to embrace and love themselves! I'm also technically an author and illustrator as I published a trans children's book called Rebekah's Secret Grandpa. I've just graduated in Sociology at Bath after doing an art foundation at Oxford Brookes, and now I'm a freelance digital marketer and illustrator, working mainly with SSE (+ facilitating in schools) and Rixxo. My dissertation researched experiences of trans and bi Christians who are excluded from both queer and Christian spaces, with hour long interviews with 17 students who identified with one or both of those identities. I recently talked about my findings, and my experience as a queer Christian Quaker, on the podcast Blessed Are The Binary Breakers (which was split out into two episodes: 1 & 2), and about being a trans ally on the podcast Nobody Panic. - Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/humansatsuma/- Art Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/lesgetbetter/- Portfolio: http://andythornton.work/- School of Sexuality Education Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/school_sexed/

Finding fine art helped Morven Shortt find her feet. Starting in higher education in her fifties she says was hard, but very rewarding.Hear about how Morven took that step from mother to student, and about how she came to make art from waste materials, and how she wants to inspire and encourage others to explore their creativity, no matter what their age. CreativityFound.co.ukInstagram: @creativityfoundpodcastFacebook: @creativityfoundpodcastMusic: Day Trips by Ketsa https://ketsa.uk/under Creative Commons Licensehttps://freemusicarchive.org/music/Ketsa/Raising_Frequecy/Day_TripsArtworks: Emily Portnoi emilyportnoi.co.ukOther podcasts cited: You and Me Both with Hillary ClintonSupport the show (https://ko-fi.com/creativityfoundpodcast)

In the early hours of 23 October 2019, a grim discovery was made on an industrial park in Grays.The bodies of 39 people were found dead in a refrigerated lorry. 29 men, eight women and two 15 year-old boys had suffocated. We later learned the victims were all Vietnamese migrants. On this episode of the Sky News Daily podcast with Dermot Murnaghan, we hear their stories as a people smuggling gang await sentencing in January for manslaughter. Why did they seek to leave Vietnam in the first place? What went wrong? And what’s being done to stop others facing a similar fate?Dermot is joined by Sky’s South East Asia correspondent Siobhan Robbins, our crime correspondent Martin Brunt and Dr Tamsin Barber - a senior lecturer in sociology at Oxford Brookes – as we examine the story beyond the headline.Daily podcast team:Podcast producer - Annie JoycePodcast producer - Nicola EyersPodcast producer – Emma-Rae Woodhouse Interviews producer - Oli FosterInterviews producer – Ella GriffithArchive - Simon WindsorMusic - Steven Wheeler

I am delighted to welcome Kelly today to share her journey so far in Nutrition. Kelly has a background in marketing and a passion for food which has led her to slightly change her career path to Nutrition. Kelly started in Nutrition with associate study at Oxford Brookes which lead her to her Master's Programme in Human Nutrition at St Mary's University which she recently graduated from. Today we talk more about her work and volunteering experience, her master's degree and what is next for her. I've learnt is to not give up, to keep on working hard at the things you love. Welcome to The Nutrition Nourishment Podcast… sharing our journeys. 

Imagine sharing your university lectures with an ex-pro AMA racer? Such is the case for motorsport engineering students at Oxford Brookes, where Antoine Richards has returned to education with dreams of translating his experience as a racer in both the US and homeland, Bermuda, into a career in motorsport engineering. His involvement in Formula Student as team leader stands him in good stead for this, along with his dedication to all things two wheels, having previously established a motorcycle riding academy back in Bermuda. We also talk courage, inspiration and solidarity in the quest for diversity in motorsport.Enjoyed Antoine's story and want to reach out? You'll find him on Insta @arichards87Keep up to date with Driven by Diversity on Instagram: @wearedrivenbydiversity See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Like the little train that could, Broken Oars Podcast returns with its long-awaited, much-heralded Episode 9. Slotting neatly in after Episode 8, it features your genial hosts Lewin and Aaron and Rory Copus. * Great and gimcrack philosophers alike have said that you can judge a man by the quality of their friends. In the world of podcasting, this translates as 'you can judge a podcast by the standard of its guests.' Broken Oars has been blessed in this regard. From Di Binley to Tristan Mayglothing, we have had guests who have been outstanding, rising above the quippage, light badinage and searingly well-researched commentary that would otherwise be our stock-in-trade.    Rory continues our unbroken run of great guests. The result is another fantastic episode.   Coach at Abingdon School, product and shaper of the Oxford Brookes production line of talent, Henley winner and that rarest of things in the rowing world, a coxing icon thanks to THAT performance against Belmont and THAT viral video of THAT performance, Rory sat down with us for a chat about all of those things. * Giving thoughtful and informative insights into the demands and requirements of high-performance programmes and how success sets the bar ever higher, Rory examines the factors that have contributed to Oxford-Brookes success from getting that first win to how geography can inspire rowing approaches, as well as reflecting on his own schoolboy career at Abingdon.   Going on to talk about the role of the coxswain in all of this, Rory offers perspectives that might come as a shock to those of us who have ever thought that a cox is just a small shouty person getting a free ride up at the pointy-end. Emphasising that a good cox knows each of the athletes they work with intimately and coordinates the complexities of each session so that the individual and the crew collective get the best possible performance outcomes as unobtrusively as possible, Rory goes on to talk about how that all came together in THAT iconic performance vs Belmont – and how winning that duel led to winning Henley Royal.   Balancing his honest perspectives on the demands of HP programmes, Rory talks about how those demands translates into the world of schoolboy rowing, illustrating that Abingdon’s programme is ever-mindful of the whole individual rather than just the rower. While achievement is on the menu, so too is the holistic development of Abingdon's students. * In the meantime, we continue our subscription to the equally valid adage that you can tell the quality of a man by the quality of his enemies by winding up the great and the good; AJ suffers a failure of kidney and finds it means a completely different thing in the twenty-first century than it did in the eighteenth; and Lewin fails to tease his partner-in-pod about his epic return to the water at Ebchester.   It was a return to the water …   … and it was epic. * Our constipated British attitude to good manners, not showing away and self-aggrandisement means that we couldn’t possibly say that this is required listening for anyone with an interest in rowing, rowers, boats, water, smacking it down a river with your friends, coaching and performance …   … but it is   … and it’s out in time for the weekend?   Wonderful.   Meatwagon? Rowing on. Stern and bow pair? Watch and learn.

Check out our latest episode where Abbie interviews Jack (2nd year, Enterprise & Entrepreneurship) on his his perspective of Oxford life as an Oxford Brookes student. Are you intrigued to see how well the universities mix? Interested in knowing how different they are? Curious to see which university dominates the nightlife? Then listen in to this episode for some eye-opening comparisons on Oxford life.

Fergus and Tom talk coxing- not something they have much experience with but fortunately the guests do. They're joined by GB Cox, Henry Fieldman, Laura Simon, JRN's new coxing content partner and Harry Brightmore from Oxford Brookes makes his second appearance on The End of The Island.We discuss the best way to form a race plan, favourite calls from over the years, what rowers do that grinds the gears of coxes and everything in between!

Welcome to a special #CovidCatchUp series of the Inside Silverstone™ podcast!  In episode #75 your host, Chris Broome hosts another Mastermind Session titled Oxford Brookes Racing - Engineering the Future! Joined by Joe Jones (OBR graduate & Williams Advanced Engineering), Ella Barrington (Associate Lecturer), and Marcus Trofimov (Silverstone Composites). We cover off topics including: What is Formula Student and what does it teach you? What will you take out into careers from this experience? Looking back what impact did OBR have on your career, and how did OB tempt you back? Why is being involved with OBR, Formula Student and more widely engineering education, important?   Links: https://obr.brookes.ac.uk/ https://www.brookes.ac.uk/ https://www.ellabarrington.com/ https://www.silverstone-composites.co.uk/ Leave a review!   Don't forget to check out the Longhurst website for more great content. Would you like to appear on the podcast? Own a business or work in/around the Silverstone business or motor-sport region? Have a story or/and knowledge to share? Get in contact with Chris on insidesilverstone@longhurst.co.uk, or reach out on Twitter @SilverstonePod.   ABOUT THE HOST Chris Broome is first and foremost a big tech, motor-sport, and gaming fan. So the opportunity to host a podcast focusing on these topics was too good to turn down. In his day-to-day life Chris is a Chartered Financial Planner and Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Insurers. His business, Longhurst, has a niche providing financial advice to clients and businesses who work in the tech, innovation, and engineering sectors. Their head office is located on Silverstone Park, Northamptonshire. 'A business plan without a personal plan is pointless.' 

This podcast provides some insight into the Part 3 viva process – the final Part 3 interview. We asked a number of influential course leaders in Professional Practice, Assessors and Examiners to answer three questions: 1. What are you looking for in a good student interview? 2. What mistakes do students "always" make? 3. What advice would you give a prospective Part 3 candidate? Speakers: Paul Crosby (Programme Leader, AA), Edward Farrell (Course Leader, Lincoln), Leo Cornall (project architect, Ian Adam-Smith Architects), Patricia Hickey (founder, Bubble Architects), Alastair Blyth (Course Leader, Westminster), Judi Farren-Bradley (Course Director, BSc & MSc Historic Building, Kingston), Simon Warren (Course Leader, Leeds Beckett), Mary Kelly (Course Leader, London Met), Tony Clelford (Programme Leader, Greenwich), Ray Dudman (External Examiner, Oxford Brookes).

Ana Maria Gutierrez es co-fundadora de Organizmo - Centro de Diseño y Capacitación en Hábitats Sostenibles. Directora del área de Bio construcción, especializada en técnicas de construcción con tierra y en  la recuperación  de la arquitectura  vernácula en zonas rurales en Colombia. Se dedica al diseño de proyectos que capaciten a líderes comunitarios en técnicas locales- promoviendo el fortalecimiento de la identidad Cultural.  Con Ana tenemos una conversación sobre nuestra reconexión con la tierra, con la naturaleza y nos preguntamos qué más necesitamos saber a nivel colectivo e individual sobre este tiempo. Obtuvo un BFA en Diseño Arquitectónico en la Escuela de Diseño Parsons de la ciudad de Nueva York y una Maestría en Telecomunicaciones Interactivas, ITP, de la Universidad de Nueva York.  Estudió  en Cal-Earth (California Institute of Earth Art and Architecture), Yestermorrow Design School, TIBA Bon Jardin, e Integría, entre otros. Enseña en su propio  centro  y desarrolla programas de inmersión cultural para el reconocimiento del patrimonio cultural intangible en las selvas del Pacífico y Amazonia y en distintos ecosistemas como el desierto de la Guajira  y la zona Andina. Ha sido tallerista invitada en la Universidad de ISTHMUS en Panamá, UAM DF *MEX y en la Universidad de Oxford Brookes en el Reino Unido. Reconocida como Líder en procesos ambientales por el British Council y desde el 2014 como  emprendedora social de alta calidad e impulsora de poderosas e innovadoras prácticas por la red de Ashoka a nivel mundial. Hoy en día trabaja por el desarrollo de programas de docencia para la transferencia generacional   de saberes locales y la formación de formadores generando metodologías de abordaje comunitario en miras a la autogestión de las comunidades y el fortalecimiento del tejido social.  

A discussion with Kate Wilmut from Oxford Brookes University. How is the perception of affordances, motor control and planning affected in Developmental Coordination Disorder (DCD)? How are embodied perception and actions related? How are changes in motor control related to changes in executive function (e.g. working memory, attentional control) across the lifespan?   More info about my guest: https://www.brookes.ac.uk/templates/pages/staff.aspx?wid=&op=full&uid=p0075140 @KWilmut More information: http://perceptionaction.com/ My Research Gate Page (pdfs of my articles) My ASU Web page Podcast Facebook page (videos, pics, etc)   Subscribe in iOS/Apple Subscribe in Anroid/Google   Support the podcast and receive bonus content

Dissapointing celebrity encounters is the running theme this week. Listener's stories include celebs such as Prince, Ian Brown and Hot Chocolate. Also - is Oxford Brookes a real education? Thanks for downloading the podcast – remember, you can be an Early Worm and catch the show live on Radio X every Sunday 8am – 11am. Get in touch on sunday@radiox.co.uk @EdGambleComedy @matthewcrosby

This episode's guest is Mat Barnes, director of CAN: Critical Architecture Network in London. CAN is an architecture studio that designs buildings, environments and installations. Prior to founding CAN, Mat was an Associate at Studio 54 Architecture where he was responsible for the award-winning Peabody infill housing projects. He has been a guest critic at a number of universities including Oxford Brookes and Westminster. Recently his design of Lomax Studio project picked up a Royal Institute of British Architects London regional award. In this interview, we talk about experiences, McDonald's, ornament in architecture and how to make a great city. I hope you enjoy our talk.

Review of Masters of Fine Art Show bursting with new ideas

Professor David Clutterbuck is a scion in the field of coaching, mentoring, team coaching and research. He is one of Europe's most prolific and well-known management writers and thinkers. He has written in excess of 70+ books and numerous articles and blogs. He is the co-founder of the European Mentoring and Coaching Council and is now a lifetime ambassador of the association. He is a visiting professor of the faculty of coaching and mentoring at Henley Business School, Sheffield Hallam, Oxford Brookes and York St. Johns Universities. I was delighted to have the opportunity to speak with him today and I hope you enjoy this episode on the Game of Teams Podcast series.   This particular episode with Professor David Clutterbuck illuminates the systemic nature of teams and how teams are part of a nested system. The terrain is complex, often messy and fraught with issues like a team's history, unspoken expectations, power dynamics, team dynamics and competing priorities and often a misguided sense of why the team is a team. Professor David Clutterbuck shared many vignettes, ideas for engagement, a framework called Perill and his explanation of a powerful question hidden in an acronym called Prairie. David spoke to his passion for teams because they are so complex and replete with learning and also his passion for writing. He has just written a new book adding to his portfolio of 70+ books called A Practitioners Handbook of Team Coaching, which is launching in the last week of April. A must read for any team Leader/member/coach or practitioner wishing to support teams be great. Noteworthy points of discussion Stand-up comedy was by far the most scary thing David has every tried but he recognises that laughter is a huge remedy and can be helpful in providing the “fizz” and “buzz” on teams He often asks of teams to tell him the most ridiculous positive thing that happened recently to connect people with their humanness and to improve the quality of conversations. Important to see teams as a part of an ecosystem and to appreciate the complexity of the system of which teams are apart Teams need to understand their history to know their future Psychological safety is very closely linked to high performance David Clutterbuck advises more time spent in upfront preparation and getting to know the team than in actual team coaching. Really important to appreciate the complexity of teams/the dynamics of interrelations not just within the team but also with their interfaces. Many reasons to engage in team coaching. Conflict, A new Leader, Project teams needing to move faster and be a real team, working out interdependencies, all kinds of transitions, learning skills/process management and how to collaborate or dialogue effectively together. Important too to get clear agreements between all parties to a team coaching engagement to understand expectations Fundamental role of Team Coach is to be redundant over time, to get to a place where the team has absorbed the coaching process. Learning is a critical dimension for teams. Top teams must be able to answer the question “Is this team adapting, evolving and changing at pace ahead of or at least abreast of pace of change around them?” A team must work with a team development plan. What is the learning the team must achieve together to cope with their environment and to get at the performance required. David Clutterbuck shared his PERILL Framework for teams. P stands for Purpose and Motivation, E stands for external relations and processes, R stands for relations, I stands for internal processes like decision making, L stands for learning and L stands for Leadership not the person but the 15 or so functions a leader needs to negotiate with the team to distribute effectively. This model is inherently the first Complex Adaptive Systems thinking framework for teams. Too often teams reach for the simple solution but David Clutterbuck explained the peril of this way of simplistic thinking. Teams needs to understand their system sufficiently well to put in place solutions and ways of working that are sustainable The simple question “who are your stakeholders” is often a mystery to many teams Other similarly provocative but helpful questions include “what is the unique contribution this team can make?” and “who would care if you were not hear?” David explained his formula for powerful questions housed in the acronym Prairie. P is personal, R is resonating, A is acute, R is reverberating, I is innocent and E is explicit. The key is to ask short/sweet questions that are to the point with emotional impact. David Clutterbuck spoke about endings in a team coaching and more specifically about his process with teams. David reminded me that the team has to be responsible for their process.  He often asks and repeatedly asks two questions. 1. What is going on in this team right now and 2. What would you collectively like to do about it? He ends when teams have absorbed the habit of coaching.   Resources: the following include the resources we alluded to over the course of our conversation Clutterbuck, D. (2007) Coaching the team at Work. Clutterbuck, D. (2004) Everyone needs a Mentor Clutterbuck,D. (2013) Powerful Questions for Coaches and Mentors Clutterbuck,D. (2019) The Practitioners Handbook of Team Coaching https://www.davidclutterbuckpartnership.com

El uso de medicamentos analgésicos durante el parto es común en todo el mundo. Una Revisión Cochrane actualizada de junio de 2018 analiza el uso de una clase de medicamentos llamados opiáceos. La autora principal, Lesley Smith, de la Universidad de Oxford Brookes del Reino Unido, nos cuenta lo que encontraron.Este podcast ha sido traducido por Elisenda Parellada y grabado por Salomé Planas, del Centro Cochrane Iberoamericano.

El uso de medicamentos analgésicos durante el parto es común en todo el mundo. Una Revisión Cochrane actualizada de junio de 2018 analiza el uso de una clase de medicamentos llamados opiáceos. La autora principal, Lesley Smith, de la Universidad de Oxford Brookes del Reino Unido, nos cuenta lo que encontraron.Este podcast ha sido traducido por Elisenda Parellada y grabado por Salomé Planas, del Centro Cochrane Iberoamericano.

El uso de medicamentos analgésicos durante el parto es común en todo el mundo. Una Revisión Cochrane actualizada de junio de 2018 analiza el uso de una clase de medicamentos llamados opiáceos. La autora principal, Lesley Smith, de la Universidad de Oxford Brookes del Reino Unido, nos cuenta lo que encontraron.Este podcast ha sido traducido por Elisenda Parellada y grabado por Salomé Planas, del Centro Cochrane Iberoamericano.

Introduction: This show illuminates the challenges facing leaders and teams as they move further into the 21st century. The challenge becomes how do we work with the future and how to we work in systems. Professor Peter Hawkins shares his research and argues the case for a revolution in how we think about teams, how we think about Leadership and how we operate as Team Coaches. Professor Peter Hawkins is a professor of leadership at Henley Business School, Visiting Professor University of Bath, and the University of Oxford Brookes and Chairman of Renewal Associates.  He is a leading consultant, coach, writer and researcher in organisational strategy, leadership, Culture change and team and board development. He is a prolific writer and author of many best selling books and papers in the fields of Board and Team Coaching, Leadership and Change. His books include Leadership team Coaching (3rd Edition), Leadership Team Coaching in Practice and Coaching, Mentoring, and Organisational Consultancy a book he co-authored with Nick Smith.     Podcast episode summary: This conversation started by talking about eldership, beyond leadership and how we enable others. He spoke about how important and critical it is for teams to think in terms of collective leadership. He opined that Leadership development is still stuck in the 20th-century building 20th-century leaders rather than 21st century Leadership. Heroic Leadership is dead long live the team is one of the many articles we discussed to shape a conversation around the need for collective leadership.    Noteworthy points of discussion The days of the CEO being the only point of contact with the various interfaces of the organisation are over –it is a collective job In the next five years, organisations are going to be employing fewer people, but the number of people they are partnering with will increase – how to get at collective leadership across boundaries?  Increasingly leadership is moving away from how to lead “my team”, “my function”, “My organisation” and more about how to partner well Brexit is an example of doing it wrong- How PM May spent two years in a win/lose framed argument asking the wrong question MIndset  change required to think in terms of living on multiple teams simultaneously 100% of the time All challenges lie in the connections between interfaces and not in the parts The Pace of Change is such that strategizing and managing changes is a perpetual process It is the purpose that creates a team and not the team creating a purpose Teams must ask “what can we uniquely do that the world of tomorrow needs?”   Peter described his model: The 5 Disciplines of successful Team Practice Discipline One –Co-Missioning: Ensuring a clear commission for the team and contracting on what it must deliver-The WHY Discipline Two- Clarity: What can the team do together that is added value in service of the declared purpose. Here the team articulates clear team KPI's, Objectives & Roles –The WHAT Discipline Three-Co-creating: - How the team will be together, team agreements, norms etc.  Discipline Four- Connecting: Engaging with all stakeholders Discipline Five- Core Learning: Building individual and collective capacity to be future fit.    Several case studies and clients were referenced in this episode where Professor Peter Hawkins described his approach to working with Executive Teams and Boards and their nested systems.     There needs to be a revolution in coaching and as team coaches, we need to “get out of the closet” and stop thinking with the boundaries of the team.    Resources: the following includes the resources we alluded to over the course of our conversation Hawkins,P. (2017) Leadership Team Coaching, Developing Collective Transformational Leadership Kogan Page  https://www.henley.fi/wp-content/uploads/2017/06/Research_Report_-_Tomorrow_s_Leadership_and_the_Necessary_Revolution_in_Today_s_Leadership_Development.pdf Hawlins,P. Leadership Team Coaching in Practice 2nd edition, Kogan Page Hawkins,P., & Smith,N. (2013) Coaching, Mentoring and Organisational Consultancy; Maidenhead, Open Press University Hawkins,P. Creating a Coaching Culture. Maindenhead, Open Press University Youtube video about  the Five Disciplines Systemic Team Coach Training Diploma Training Program with the AoEC:  http://www.aoec.com/individiual/courses/systemicteamcoachingdiploma/  Hawkins,P. Beyond the heroic CEO, an article written for Henley Business School, www.henley.ac.uk/people/person/professor-peter-hawkins/  https://www.linkedin.com/in/peter-hawkins-b27177/ https://www.renewalassociates.co.uk 

Produced by: Catherine Charlwood (@DrCharlwood) and Laura Ludtke (@lady_electric) Music composed and performed by: Gareth Jones About this episode: In this episode, Laura and Cathy dive into the STEM vs. the humanities debate, discussing how funding in post-secondary institutions widens the divide between the humanities and STEm subjects. This week's interview features Alex Goody, Professor of Twentieth-Century Literature in the Department of English Literature at Oxford Brookes University. After the interview, you can hear Alex read Mina Loy’s poem, ‘Human Cylinders.’ Bio for Alex Goody: After completing her PhD on 'Mina Loy’s Modernist Aesthetic’ at the University of Leeds, Dr Goody taught at Falmouth University before joining Oxford Brookes. Her research interests and teaching spans the field of modernist studies, encompasses technology and literature, considers the work of the modernist poets and novelists Mina Loy, Djuna Barnes, and Gertrude Stein, as well as New York Dada, jewish writing, modernist drama, and radio. We highly recommend you read Technology, Literature and Culture, (Polity Press, 2011). Episode resources: If you want to become more familiar with the Humanities vs STEM debate, here are some of the articles and books Laura and Catherine mention in the episode: Schmidt, ‘The Humanities are in Crisis’. Rustin, ‘Why study English? We’re poorer in every sense without it’. ‘Patterns and trends in UK Higher Education’. Olejarz, ‘Liberal Arts in the Data Age'. Wadhwa, 'Why liberal arts and the humanities are as important as engineering’. Anders, ‘That 'Useless' Liberal Arts Degree Has Become Tech's Hottest Ticket’. Bate, The Public Value of the Humanities (Bloomsbury, 2011) Collini, What Are Universities For? (Penguin 2012) Small, The Value of the Humanities (Oxford University Press 2013) Klein, The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism (Random House Canada, 2007 'Universities likely to cut number of staff due to Brexit uncertainty'. Resources mentioned in the interview with Alex Goody: Hales: Unthought: The Power Of The Cognitive Nonconscious; Kittler, Gramophone, Film, Typewriter; Elkin, Flâneuse: Women Walk the City; Ahmed, Living a Feminist Life Mina Loy: Navigating the Avant-Garde. Loy materials on the Beinecke Rare Books Library website. You can read Mina Loy, ‘Human Cylinders’ here and Seamus Heaney’s ‘The Railway Children’’ here.

On today's episode of RUN with CoachParry we chat to Geoffrey Abrams, a lifetime member of our CoachParry Online Training Platform. Geoffrey has a sub-3 marathon goal and with that; silver Comrades medal aspirations. Markus and Geoffrey chat all things pacing - within a race as well as how to approach your ideal training pace. They also chat about strength training and when the best time is to fit strength work into your weekly schedule. Be sure to listen to see how Geoffrey did at his most recent sub-3 marathon attempt this last weekend at Johnson Crane.  If you're wanting to share your story with us, you could win 3 months access to the CoachParry Online Training Platform. Just use #BiogenJourney on social media and you could be one of our winners. This week's winner is Siphiwe (Instagram handle: @kataztrofy) Welcome to the team Siphiwe! If you're interested in the concept of "training slow to become fast" (polarized training) - the concept Markus was referring to in this chat - be sure to check out this lecture from one of the world leading sport scientists in endurance sports and polarized training in particular - Dr Stephen Seiler. Members of the CoachParry coaching team have had the privilege of being able to spend some time with Dr Seiler on 2 of his trips to SA. This is a lecture* he gave at Oxford Brookes university and really sums up the science and benefits of this type of training so well! https://lecturecapture.brookes.ac.uk/Mediasite/Play/3b951db65dd44082a876060aab67f5c51d (*shared with permission from Dr Seiler) Read More · www.CoachParry.com

TalkFEED — On today's episode of RUN with CoachParry we chat to Geoffrey Abrams, a lifetime member of our CoachParry Online Training Platform. Geoffrey has a sub-3 marathon goal and with that; silver Comrades medal aspirations. Markus and Geoffrey chat all things pacing - within a race as well as how to approach your ideal training pace. They also chat about strength training and when the best time is to fit strength work into your weekly schedule. Be sure to listen to see how Geoffrey did at his most recent sub-3 marathon attempt this last weekend at Johnson Crane.  If you're wanting to share your story with us, you could win 3 months access to the CoachParry Online Training Platform. Just use #BiogenJourney on social media and you could be one of our winners. This week's winner is Siphiwe (Instagram handle: @kataztrofy) Welcome to the team Siphiwe! If you're interested in the concept of "training slow to become fast" (polarized training) - the concept Markus was referring to in this chat - be sure to check out this lecture from one of the world leading sport scientists in endurance sports and polarized training in particular - Dr Stephen Seiler. Members of the CoachParry coaching team have had the privilege of being able to spend some time with Dr Seiler on 2 of his trips to SA. This is a lecture* he gave at Oxford Brookes university and really sums up the science and benefits of this type of training so well! https://lecturecapture.brookes.ac.uk/Mediasite/Play/3b951db65dd44082a876060aab67f5c51d (*shared with permission from Dr Seiler) Read More

Should we worry about the world getting healthier? Thomas Bollyky thinks we should. Jane Stevens Crawshaw looks at cleanliness and disease in Renaissance cities & Penny Woolcock films Oxford and LA. Rana Mitter presents. For the first time in recorded history, parasites, viruses, bacteria, and other infectious diseases are not the leading cause of death and disability in any region of the world but that doesn't mean our cities are healthier and more prosperous. Jane Steven Crawshaw from Oxford Brookes researches plague hospitals and quarantine. From cleaning up C15th Venice and Milan, Rana Mitter also considers C21st Oxford and Los Angeles in new films by Penny Woolcock which explore their different mythologies. Her recent projects have also included the different responses she and a gang member have walking down the same street and a range of views on personal gun use. Jennifer Ingleheart reveals the books deemed too racy for Oxford undergraduates that were hidden away in the Bodleian Library's Phi Collection. Thomas Bollyky is director of the global health program and senior fellow for global health, economics, and development at the Council on Foreign Relations. His book is called Plagues and the Paradox of Progress: Why the World is Getting Healthier in Worrisome Ways. Fantastic Cities - an exhibition of Penny Woolcock's work runs at Modern Art Oxford until March 2019. The Story of Phi, curated by Jennifer Ingleheart, is at the Bodleian Library until 13th January 2019. Hear more from Penny Woolcock discussing her career at the Free Thinking Festival https://bbc.in/2E31s0U Producer: Torquil MacLeod

Join former winter Olympian, Jason Sklenar MBE uses the discipline he gained in the military and from his Olympic adventures to stay healthy and fit approaching 50...  Jason has gained a wealth of experience, working as a fitness instructor, coach and competing at the highest levels in sport as an elite athlete. A veteran of four Olympic games he has worked as an athlete, coach and manager, with responsibilities ranging from team coach and manager to a TeamGB ambassador for the British Olympic Association. Assisting with current winter Olympians in managing performance and nutrition. He has been awarded an MBE for his sporting achievements and the development of others in sport. While an athlete he worked toward a BSc degree in Sports Science and Performance at Bath Uni and also holds an MSc in Exercise and Sports Nutrition from Oxford Brookes. Having recently represented GB at triathlon European Championships, as an age group athlete, Jason is still very active. His current aim is to qualify for Ironman World Championships Kona, while juggling being a dad of three and running his own online coaching and nutrition business ‘Smarter Coaching Solution.   To connect with Jason, you can contact him using the links below: www.smartercoachingsolutions.co.uk Jason on Linkedin: http://bit.ly/JSklenarMBE You can also search JASON SKLENAR on Social Media. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Join my FREE over 40's health group on Facebook here: http://bit.ly/over40sgroup Hello!! My name is Mark Sleight - a health expert and former GB hockey coach. Follow me as I help you combat obesity, type 2 diabetes, high cholesterol, joint pain, poor fitness and depression to improve your health, happiness and confidence. Twice a week on the 40 Fit and Fabulous Podcast I will be inviting inspiring guests ranging from Olympic athletes to financial experts and performance coaches with the aim of inspiring and educating everyone over 40 so that we can all live a long, healthy and happy life! To Learn more about me, your host, you can connect via social media at all the relevant links below.  You will find that following me on social media is a very real and transparent experience as I am very honest! You will also find many free resources that I hand out on a regular basis to keep you Looking, Moving and Feeling Great!! My Facebook Page can be found here: http://bit.ly/MSNpage My FREE Eat, Drink and Shrink Ebook can be downloaded here: http://bit.ly/EatDrinkandShrink If you would like to work with me, you can contact me here: http://bit.ly/MSNjoinme  

Join former winter Olympian, Jason Sklenar MBE uses the discipline he gained in the military and from his Olympic adventures to stay healthy and fit approaching 50...  Jason has gained a wealth of experience, working as a fitness instructor, coach and competing at the highest levels in sport as an elite athlete. A veteran of four Olympic games he has worked as an athlete, coach and manager, with responsibilities ranging from team coach and manager to a TeamGB ambassador for the British Olympic Association. Assisting with current winter Olympians in managing performance and nutrition. He has been awarded an MBE for his sporting achievements and the development of others in sport. While an athlete he worked toward a BSc degree in Sports Science and Performance at Bath Uni and also holds an MSc in Exercise and Sports Nutrition from Oxford Brookes. Having recently represented GB at triathlon European Championships, as an age group athlete, Jason is still very active. His current aim is to qualify for Ironman World Championships Kona, while juggling being a dad of three and running his own online coaching and nutrition business ‘Smarter Coaching Solution.   To connect with Jason, you can contact him using the links below: www.smartercoachingsolutions.co.uk Jason on Linkedin: http://bit.ly/JSklenarMBE You can also search JASON SKLENAR on Social Media. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Join my FREE over 40's health group on Facebook here: http://bit.ly/over40sgroup Hello!! My name is Mark Sleight - a health expert and former GB hockey coach. Follow me as I help you combat obesity, type 2 diabetes, high cholesterol, joint pain, poor fitness and depression to improve your health, happiness and confidence. Twice a week on the 40 Fit and Fabulous Podcast I will be inviting inspiring guests ranging from Olympic athletes to financial experts and performance coaches with the aim of inspiring and educating everyone over 40 so that we can all live a long, healthy and happy life! To Learn more about me, your host, you can connect via social media at all the relevant links below.  You will find that following me on social media is a very real and transparent experience as I am very honest! You will also find many free resources that I hand out on a regular basis to keep you Looking, Moving and Feeling Great!! My Facebook Page can be found here: http://bit.ly/MSNpage My FREE Eat, Drink and Shrink Ebook can be downloaded here: http://bit.ly/EatDrinkandShrink If you would like to work with me, you can contact me here: http://bit.ly/MSNjoinme  

We had the pleasure of getting to know George Harwood-Dallyn. He is so funny and charismatic, it's hard not to love him! He currently manages the Jolly Post Boys in Oxford, England and is on a mission to save the great British pub. In this episode, Drea and George chat about their experiences studying hospitality management at the Oxford School of Hospitality Management (OSHM) at both the undergraduate and postgraduate levels. Let's Connect! @jollypostboysoxford @preshifthospitality FB&IG@preshifthospo Twittertabletalk@preshift-hospitality.comwww.preshift-hospitality.com

We had the pleasure of getting to know George Harwood-Dallyn. He is so funny and charismatic, it's hard not to love him! He currently manages the Jolly Post Boys in Oxford, England and is on a mission to save the great British pub. In this episode, Drea and George chat about their experiences studying hospitality management at the Oxford School of Hospitality Management (OSHM) at both the undergraduate and postgraduate levels. Let's Connect! @jollypostboysoxford @preshifthospitality FB&IG@preshifthospo Twittertabletalk@preshift-hospitality.comwww.preshift-hospitality.com

Southampton Stags take on Oxford Brookes Panthers in a winner-takes-all BUCS 2A South West promotional battle. Commentary and interviews from Tom Moorhouse, Scott Taylor, and OBU's Ian Whitehead.

Southampton Stags take on Oxford Brookes Panthers in a winner-takes-all BUCS 2A South West promotional battle. Commentary and interviews from Tom Moorhouse, Scott Taylor, and OBU's Ian Whitehead.

Southampton Stags take on Oxford Brookes Panthers in a winner-takes-all BUCS 2A South West promotional battle. Commentary and interviews from Tom Moorhouse, Scott Taylor, and OBU's Ian Whitehead.

Audio only commentary of Anglia Ruskin's clash with Oxford Brookes in the National Basketball League Division One Women's. #britishbasketball

It's all very exciting at the moment with our trip just 4 weeks away. But my fascination with leadership and leadership development hasn't gone away! This week I'm off to Switzerland to work with a team there on their leadership and I will continue to do this kind of work even when we're on the road. There's a need for leadership in our world greater than maybe at any time in the past, and a significant leadership vacuum. But how do we help people become better leaders? Is what we are doing today working? Not according to today's guest, Professor Peter Hawkins. Part-time Executive Professor of Leadership at Henley Business School, where he is researching next generation leadership and leadership development, Visiting Professor at the Universities of Bath and Oxford Brookes and founder and Emeritus Chairman of Bath Consultancy Group and Renewal Associates, he is also the author of numerous books and a groundbreaking report called Tomorrow's Leadership and the Necessary Revolution in Today's Leadership Development. https://s3-eu-west-1.amazonaws.com/assets.henley.ac.uk/legacyUploads/pdf/exec-ed/Research_Report_-_Tomorrow_s_Leadership_and_the_Necessary_Revolution_in_Today_s_Leadership_Development.pdf If you're in HR this report and today's interview should be required research! But even if you're not there's plenty here about the future world we are going to be living in and how we rethink assumptions and habits of the past. Please stay in touch on Instagram, twitter, facebook and by email (blaire@thatpeoplething.com) with your thoughts and ideas on this subject or anything else related to leadership and integrating your work and your life!

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Human Rights - Electronics Industry and the impact it's having at Oxford Brookes • Human Rights - Electronics Industry and the impact it's having at Oxford Brookes • Human Rights - Electronics Industry and the impact it's having at Oxford Brookes • Human Rights - Electronics Industry and the impact it's having at Oxford Brookes

As university students settle into their real estate careers the property world is being transformed by technology, with around 90% of the core tasks that surveyors currently train for being altered. Will this spell the death of the agent? No. But it will mean they will need to perform some roles with a greater deal of emphasis in order to advance their careers? In this tech panel discussion at Oxford Brookes University in November 2017, in partnership with CBRE and KPMG and presented by EG, experts discuss what those roles are and how to sharpen your skills in an era of automation to secure your job. Plus find out the shape of things to come for the rest of the built environment sector. The panel: Alex Bailes, head of product engineering, CBREEden Dwek, manager, Tech Growth, KPMGSavannah de Savary, founder and chief executive, Built-IDBrittany Hurley, senior director - UK, VTSChair: Damian Wild, Editor, EG

My guest in this special episode of the podcast “Leadership is the Competitive Advantage” is Professor David Clutterbuck. David is one of the international pioneers of coaching and mentoring. He brought the concept of structured mentoring programmes to Europe in the early 1980s and, with David Megginson, is a co-founder of the European Mentoring & Coaching Council, for which he is now a Lifetime Ambassador. Of his 70+ books to date, more than a third are in the field of coaching and mentoring. Currently he is a visiting professor in the coaching and mentoring faculties of Oxford Brookes and Sheffield Hallam. He has a post-graduate certificate in coach supervision and he is an external examiner at both Ashridge Business School and Cork University. David has also set up The David Clutterbuck Partnership together with a pool of highly experienced experts in coaching and mentoring. He works with individuals, teams and organisations to help them have the meaningful conversations they need, to bring about significant, positive change. In this special conversation David exudes an immense knowledge of the subject and experience working with hundreds of mentees. This is a real gem. “One of the fundamental leadership traits to develop in ourselves is ethicality, including ethical decision-making. Coaches that I advise around the world frequently are finding that one of the biggest issues that their clients face is inner conflict — having to do things that they actually do not think are right and they would not do in another context. But they might get acclimatised to do these sorts of things in the organisational culture they are immersed in. We know that unethical decisions often happen because people are surrounded by figures and things that make them think ruthlessly rather than humanely. And then suddenly something makes them realise that there is this dissonance between their life at work and life outside, and it genuinely worries them. You need to be curious enough about your own thinking patterns to recognise when you are doing things unethically. Whenever you find yourself in the challenging position as a leader, ask yourself this ethical question: how would I feel about the way that I am approaching this particular issue if we were doing it in public, transparently? Another question to ask is: which of my values is most important here? You probably are facing values conflict — so which value is the most important one here and why? And then you could have lots of other questions like: will I like myself more or less at the end of this? Or, will I respect myself more or less at the end of this? Those are just some of the questions we can ask ourselves as leaders when dealing with difficult matters. They are great in stopping us for a moment, allowing us to take a step back in order to get absolutely clear about what am I doing here and why I am doing this? Who am I doing it for? This is essential inner dialogue which helps to create more ethical leadership practices.” — David Clutterbuck Listen and enjoy!

Our guest in this installment of The PrimateCast is Dr. Anna Nekaris, the world's foremost authority on one of the world's least known primates: the slow loris, or as she likes to call it, the Little Fireface. "A venomous primate, that's ridiculous...

Our guest in this installment of The PrimateCast is Dr. Anna Nekaris, the world's foremost authority on one of the world's least known primates: the slow loris, or as she likes to call it, the Little Fireface. "A venomous primate, that's ridiculous...

Our guest in this installment of The PrimateCast is Dr. Anna Nekaris, the world's foremost authority on one of the world's least known primates: the slow loris, or as she likes to call it, the Little Fireface. "A venomous primate, that's ridiculous...

Join Dr. Krister Lowe and today’s guest and early pioneer in the team coaching field—Professor David Clutterbuck—for this week’s episode of The Team Coaching Zone Podcast! Professor David Clutterbuck is Practice Lead at David Clutterbuck Partnership, Special Ambassador for the European Mentoring and Coaching Council, Founder of Coaching and Mentoring International, Visiting Professor at Sheffield Hallam, Oxford Brookes and York St. John Universities and an Adjunct Faculty at Ashridge Coaching MBA. He is also the author of 65 books and countless articles, white papers and blog posts. David is the author of the team coaching classic “Coaching the Team At Work”—an essential read for all team coaches. He is a thought leader in the coaching world and a leading trainer and supervisor of coaches and team coaches.  In this episode of the podcast, David shares his journey into team coaching. Themes explored on the show include: his book “Coaching The Team At Work;” working with teams across the full organizational hierarchy; multiple types of teams (leadership teams, cabin crew teams, stable teams, project teams, learning teams, evolutionary teams and more); knowledge management in teams; working with history in teams; coaching as a link between the inner context and the outer context; getting quick wins; the dangers of focusing too much on dysfunction; goals in team coaching; contracting and re-contracting in team coaching; three core focal areas in team coaching (performance, learning, relationships/behavior); focusing on opportunities vs. problems; performance vs. learning orientations; self-coaching in teams; individual vs. team level learning; coaching cultures in teams; learning plans in teams; peer coaching within teams; the importance of having skills in “being coached;” 9 signs when you shouldn’t coach a team; the current lack of team coach supervision; four developmental mindsets of coaches (model-based à process-based à philosophy/discipline-based à systemic/eclectic-based); powerful questions in team coaching; balancing bringing calm to teams while also generating constructive conflict; three practical tips for coaching teams – 1) how to manage extroverts vs. introverts in teams, 2) how to manage resistance to you as the team coach, 3) a creative way to address interpersonal conflict in teams; David’s 3-day “From One-to-One Coach to Team Coach” training program; David’s perspectives on the evolution of team coaching and more. This is yet another podcast with a towering figure in the team coaching arena that is chock full of “value bombs” and an episode that you will surely not want to miss!

In GBA 199 we get better acquainted with Adele Hampton. She talks spoken word, journalism, finding her voice, navigating the intersections of class, race, gender and sexuality, her specific experiences of growing up biracial, moving to London from America and so much more. Adele plugs: Her video production work: Contact her at Adele Hampton on facebook. Check out her previous video work: http://adelehampton.com/ I plug: The upcoming #GBA200 season (16th-20th March 2015) where I will be celebrating 200 hundred episodes of Getting Better Acquainted with a week of conversations where the table is turned and other people run the show and I am the guest. And Tragic Spring: https://www.facebook.com/events/588668424609848/ We mention: Sophia Walker: https://www.facebook.com/SophiaWalker Can't Care Won't Care: http://www.rondotheatre.co.uk/production/1159/ Around the World in 8 Mistakes: http://sabotagereviews.com/2013/08/29/edinburgh-fringe-review-around-the-world-in-eight-mistakes-by-sophia-walker/ Stand Up Tragedy: http://www.standuptragedy.co.uk/ Oxford Brookes: https://www.brookes.ac.uk/ New College of Humanities: https://www.nchum.org/ My dad: https://soundcloud.com/gettingbetteracquainted/sets/the-dad-episodes Adele's dad: http://www.imdb.com/name/nm3563885/ http://www.transcendingsurgeon.com/ Miner's Strike: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UK_miners%27_strike_%281984%E2%80%9385%29 Spark London: http://sparklondon.com/ Doctor Who: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doctor_Who Daniel Radcliffe: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daniel_Radcliffe Rhianna: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rhianna_(singer) Annie: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Annie_(2014_film) Ferguson: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2014_Ferguson_unrest The Wire: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_wire Huffington Post: http://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/ Follow @GBApodcast on Twitter. Like Getting Better Acquainted on facebook. Tell your friends. Spread the word!