With some excitement we find ourselves recording back on our beloved university campus - but outdoors to avoid having too many lines on our risk assessment! With suitably long wires plugged in, our podcast duo tackle the very topical concept of resilience, with the aid of a number of sources that we've mashed up to help us. Having become something of a hot buzzword even before we all found ourselves battling the coronavirus, resilience is a tricky concept to nail down, but very relevant to those of us in an education profession that can test our resilience to the maximum, whether we're at the start of our careers or grizzled old pros.

This episode is illustrated with some carefully chosen snippets from the following sources, and we believe we're on the right side of the fair use copyright provisions, but are willing to stand corrected if either the BBC or Harvard want to tell us otherwise! Either way, we'd urge you to visit these sources to enjoy them in full:

BBC Radio 4: The Science of Resilience https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b07cvhrs

Harvard University: The Science of Resilience https://developingchild.harvard.edu/resources/inbrief-the-science-of-resilience/

Emma's book recommendation is:

Eddo-Lodge, Renni (2017), Why I'm no longer talking to white people about race. London: Bloomsbury

...and her radio recommendation is:

Desert Island Discs: Sinead Burke https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m000j7q5

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Recorded at Cardiff Metropolitan University's Cyncoed campus on 11th August 2020