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5 minutes with… Dr Sarah Hulme, Senior Project Officer College of Health and Medicine
What is your favourite film and book? Answering questions like this with just one favourite is so difficult, I’d probably give you a list of each if I wasn’t bothered about seeming indecisive and unable to follow directions. So just one of each…. Book: The Casuarina Tree (Somerset Maugham). No good reason why – I […]
5 minutes with…Dr Rosie Nash, Public Health Lecturer
What is your favourite film and book? Never Ending Story is my favourite film. I watched it again with my kids recently and I still cried when the horse sunk. Choosing a favourite book is harder. The last one I read that I loved was Treading Lightly by Karl Erik Sveiby and Tex Sculthorpe. I […]
Inclusion, Diversity and Equity in our College
College Inclusion, Diversity and Equity Committee Chair Lisa Foa talks about the committee, its aims and achievements so far. What is CIDEC? CIDEC stands for the College Inclusion, Diversity and Equity Committee. We are a group of individuals who are committed to the principles of inclusion, diversity and equity (IDE), and want to see these […]
Positive signs with new interventions for the prevention of dementia
The most recent Preventing Dementia Massive Open Online Course (MOOC) from the Wicking Dementia Research and Education Centre ran during October and November 2018, with over 16,000 people enrolled. For this iteration of the course the MOOC team expanded the section on ‘Interventions for Prevention’ to include information about an exciting international research initiative called […]
5 minutes with…..Chantel Crossman, Stakeholder Engagement Manager, Wicking Dementia Research and Education Centre
What is your favourite film and book? This is a tricky question for me because since my two children (Ruby aged 4 and Jonah aged 3) were born I’m generally too exhausted at night to read! My favourite authors are Ian McEwan ‘On Chesil Beach’ and ‘Atonement’, Cormac McCarthy ‘The Road’ and Tim Winton ‘Dirt […]