Resources for the talk at Research Services You can download a full transcript here and slides here Resources for the talk at Blavatnik School of Government on November 8th You can download a full transcript here You can order the book Our Dreams Make Different Shapes in ebook or paperback here (also available not from … Continue reading The Stories We Could Tell: Mental Illness and Neurodivergence in Higher Education
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Resources for ARMA conference session Exquisite Ladders: Bending the Neurotypical Academy’s Straight Lines You can download the slides here. And - with apologies that the video would not permit captioning, but you can download the full transcript here. And you can view the Panopto recording, with transcript, here. You can download a beautiful printable pdf … Continue reading Exquisite Ladders
A talk given for the Open University's Special Interest Group on Inclusivity You’ll learn a lot if you ask someone why a problem is important. The first thing you’ll learn if you ask the question to many different people is that it often feels like they’re answering completely different questions. Understanding why that happens is … Continue reading Closing the Gap: Financial Hardship and Poor Mental Health in Higher education
How financial services companies can enable rather than disable their neurodivergent customers and those with a mental illness
Do you long to get back to the hustle and bustle of an office? Or are you hoping that your employer will have realised the value of allowing people to spend more of their time working at home? If you are like me, then your answer is probably along the lines of, "Both. And neither." … Continue reading Co-working Alone: Tomorrow’s Shared Work Spaces
Every body is different; every body has different needs; every person has different desires, aspirations, and potential for their body; Whatever those needs, aspirations, desires, and potentials are the means to train the body to attain them should be freely available to all.Societies should do everything possible to ensure every form of exercise available to … Continue reading An Open Access Manifesto for Training the Body
I've put off writing about my progress training for the One Day challenge for a couple of weeks now because I just couldn't find the right way in. There are so many things I want to capture - what it is I'm finding hard, without suggesting I'm hard done by or failing to acknowledge the … Continue reading Turning Inward
This is a little insight into how I approach learning new things. I hope it's helpful for anyone taking on a new challenge in 2021. I'll be starting with memory, speed cubing, and trying to chip away at my 1 kilometre run time. For every discipline I take on in my One Day Like This … Continue reading How I Learn
Most of us who take up a hobby have this shared experience. Especially those of us who turn out to be good at whatever that hobby is, maybe start competing. Or at the very least pushing ourselves to see how good we can get. At some point we reach a plateau. We hit that level … Continue reading Beating the Plateaus
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