Eliminating Poverty in Britain Q&A

Eliminating Poverty in Britain Q&A

We have been talking to Helen Rowe, author of Eliminating Poverty in Britain to find out what motivated her to take on this ambitious project. What kind of research did you do? How long did you spend researching before beginning the book? The idea for the book came to...
Jangled Bells ~ Christmas Grief is Here Again…

Jangled Bells ~ Christmas Grief is Here Again…

It’s that bittersweet time of year again – it’s really crept up on us this year hasn’t it? Is there is an emotional battle going on in your mind where part of you desperately wants to be jolly, and the other part of you is so desperately sad?   You could be...
Climate change in Fiji: One man, three homes

Climate change in Fiji: One man, three homes

Sea level rise is already forcing some remote communities to move inland, such as in Fiji in the Pacific Ocean where the government relocated 150 people in the village of Vunidogoloa to higher ground in 2014 from a flood-prone coast. World-renowned climate change...
BEI Talks: The Four Day Working Week with Dr Pedro Gomes

BEI Talks: The Four Day Working Week with Dr Pedro Gomes

What would a four-day working week mean for you, for employers and for society? Dr Pedro Gomes is an academic economist at Birkbeck, University of London and is passionate about the four-day working week. In conversation with Dr Pamela Yeow, Assistant Dean for...
Why World Menopause Day 2020 Matters

Why World Menopause Day 2020 Matters

It’s time to make the menopause conversation global At last, menopause is being talked about as more than ‘something to be got through’. But as we start to have more menopause conversations, we need to listen to more and different voices from those already being...