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Dr Aida Abzhaparova, Associate Head for Student Experience in the Department of Geography and Environmental Management, UWE Bristol, delivers a lecture on how her mother's lost Rubles turned her into a diplomat and how we gain achievement from loss.

Watch the lecture on YouTube here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A_ZmlkgAwoM&t=

Watch the rest of the Inspire:Me lecture series here: https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLrOzUDjo8U6KIAOPz2NI8CJr7ClZQvWFm

The aim of this Talking Talent episode is to support you in understanding the impact of Covid 19 on early year recruitment and how to make the most of opportunities to engage students virtually.

We have brought together practical insights from industry, academia and our own experiences as a service, highlighting new opportunities to work with the university and our students. 

Episode guests include Rowena Bach - Total Talent and Early Careers Recruitment Strategy Director for People Scout, Myra Evans - Senior Lecturer of Journalism and Former Broadcast Journalist and Clare Adams - University Partnership Manager for Handshake.

Episode host: Renee Berkhout

Audio Production: Jake Lee-Savage - UWE Bristol final year student of Broadcast Audio and Music Technology

Image Credit: Chris Montgomery on Unsplash

In this episode of our Future Impact Podcast, which was recorded remotely during the UK coronavirus lockdown, we spoke to four inspirational women about their coaching journey after undertaking the Certificate in Executive Coaching and Mentoring (ILM Level 7) programme here at UWE Bristol.

We are joined by;

• Jo Beckett, joint CEO for the Institute of Development Professionals and Education (IDPE) and founder of Jo Beckett Coaching and Development

• Jane Shayler, former Director of Integrated Commissioning for Health and Social Care and currently providing coaching and leadership development to individuals working in the public and not-for-profit sector

• Emily Loveday-Proom, Learning and Development Manager in local government

• Sadie Drummond, business improvement specialist within education, mediator (conflict resolution) and executive and wellbeing coach (individual and groups) within education, social enterprises and small businesses.

This podcast series is hosted by Bristol Business School and Bristol Law School at UWE Bristol. Featuring exciting new developments in technology, management practice, and business and leadership, the Future Impact Podcast series will highlight the impact from both an academic and practitioner perspective on the future of society.

A huge thank you to all of our guests on this episode of the Future Impact Podcast series. We are always looking for interesting guests to contribute to our podcast, if you’d like to discuss this further please contact our team on the details below.

Presented by Rachel Evans. Produced by Rose Adderley and Tom Perou. Contact us at [email protected].

This lecture was delivered by Tom Woollard, CEO and Co-Founder of Bunk. He gave a talk called "Startup life: idea, investment, implementation".

Tom discussed how they came up with the idea for Bunk, raised their initial investment and grew to be one of the most promising startups across the country, all with his closest friends.

You can follow Bunk on Twitter: https://twitter.com/rentbunk

or Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/rentbunk/

or find Tom on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/twoollard?originalSubdomain=uk

Watch the rest of the Inspire:Me lecture series here: https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLrOzUDjo8U6KIAOPz2NI8CJr7ClZQvWFm

Doug and Dame Mary Perkins founded Specsavers with the aim of offering affordable eye care to everyone. In the second Bristol Distinguished Lecture of autumn 2020, they spoke about how they saw the opportunity to revolutionise the optical market, following a relaxation of UK regulations, which allowed opticians to advertise products and services for the first time.

Watch our '3 Questions interview' with Doug and Mary as they answer selected questions: https://youtu.be/p8dMvFhRhIk

Listen more from the Bristol Distinguished Address Series: https://soundcloud.com/uwebristol/sets/bristol-distinguished-address

Watch the Bristol Distinguished Address Series: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLrOzUDjo8U6JTeJ02D-Bo_EtA47W6vG-T

Learn more about the Bristol Distinguished Address Series: www.uwe.ac.uk/events/bristol-dis…hed-address-series

This lecture was delivered by Rob Lingham, Carnival Administrator at St Paul's Carnival CIC. He gave a talk called "Greening events".

Rob discussed greening events and challenging people's perceptions, how to be inclusive, innovative and collaborative and reduce negative impacts.

You can find Rob on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/roblingham/?originalSubdomain=uk

Watch the rest of the Inspire:Me lecture series here: https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLrOzUDjo8U6KIAOPz2NI8CJr7ClZQvWFm

This lecture was delivered by Pravanya Pillay, Outreach Lead at Babbasa, founder of arts organisation Stomping Ground and part-time comedian. The talk is called "Boss".

Pravanya discussed leadership inspired by the song BOSS from The Carters' 2018 album EVERYTHING IS LOVE. This lecture looked at what it means to be a leader, who our leaders are and what we need our leaders to do.

You can follow Pravanya online on:

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/pravanyapillay/

Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/playlist/5HVdYFwseHWdqSeMmnTxp6?si=5XHxKsJnTdOJkQiksK4SWw

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/PravanyaPillayComedy/

Twitter: https://twitter.com/pravanyapillay

Watch the rest of the Inspire:Me lecture series here: https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLrOzUDjo8U6KIAOPz2NI8CJr7ClZQvWFm

This lecture was delivered by Natalie Fee, environmental campaigner, speaker and founder of City to Sea. She gave a talk called "Create the career you want whilst saving the world you love".

Natalie discussed how she turned her frustration with plastic pollution into one of the UK's fastest-growing, most impactful non-profit organisations. As well as sharing inspirational (and unusual) career advice, she also shared tips from her new book, How to Save the World for Free.

Follow Natalie on Twitter: https://twitter.com/nataliefee

or Instagram:https://www.instagram.com/nataliefee_/

Watch the rest of the Inspire:Me lecture series here: https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLrOzUDjo8U6KIAOPz2NI8CJr7ClZQvWFm

This lecture was delivered by Jade Parnell, PhD student at UWE Bristol's Centre for Appearance Research (CAR). She gave a talk called "What it means to be a Body Image Researcher".

Jade discussed her journey of becoming a body image researcher and why research into body image is so important in our society.

You can follow Jade on Twitter: https://twitter.com/jadeparnell

or listen to the Appearance Matters podcast on SoundCloud: https://soundcloud.com/appearance-matters

For more information about the Inspire:Me Lecture Series, visit: https://www.uwe.ac.uk/study/block-zero/inspire-me

Watch the rest of the Inspire:Me lecture series here: https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLrOzUDjo8U6KIAOPz2NI8CJr7ClZQvWFm

This lecture was delivered by Darren Reynolds, Professor in Health and Environment at the Centre for Research in Biosciences, in UWE Bristol's Department of Applied Sciences. He gave a talk called "I'm an idea... get me out of here!".

Darren discussed the power of ideas, how they can be realised and how they can help drive change.

You can browse all publications for Professor Darren Reynolds on our research repository: https://uwe-repository.worktribe.com/person/696789/user/outputs

or follow him on Twitter: https://twitter.com/reynolds_uwe

For more information about the Inspire:Me Lecture Series, visit: uwe.ac.uk/study/block-zero/inspire-me

Watch the rest of the Inspire:Me lecture series here: https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLrOzUDjo8U6KIAOPz2NI8CJr7ClZQvWFm