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We need children to discover real food at school

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18 May 2022

Anthony Davison

The Big Barn project helps schools and their pupils become the centre of a sustainable, healthy, inclusive, food community, with the children learning about how much fun – and how delicious – home grown produce is. Anthony Davison invites you to get involved.
Inclusion begins with collaboration

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16 May 2022

Karl Brown

Solicitor Karl Brown FRSA writes about how his experience of a lack of diversity in the Bristol property business spurred him to create the Bristol Property Inclusion Charter
Prioritising social value in supply chains

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04 May 2022

The pandemic and the increase in extreme weather events has exposed the fragility of our global supply chains. Meanwhile, new Government procurement policy means a consideration of social value is no longer an optional extra for business. Aoise Keogan Nooshabadi, FRSA, looks at the ethical, practical and economic benefits of buying and supplying closer to home
Want to rebuild your life? First prove you’re alive

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13 Apr 2022

Lauren Anders Brown

War and forced migrations mean hundreds of thousands of displaced people lack the documents to find work, start a new life, or even prove they exist. Lauren Anders Brown, co-directed Forged, about the Syrian conflict. She argues that we desperately need a universal, non-governmental ID system
How to stop human traffickers exploiting the war in Ukraine

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12 Apr 2022

Eirliani Rahman

Amid the horror of the Russian invasion, criminals see opportunities. Eirliani Abdul Rahman, who works to help abused and trafficked children, and adult survivors of the brutal trade, says many thousands of innocent victims are slipping through the cracks.
Investing in the brain...to strengthen democracy

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07 Apr 2022

In a world economy dominated by intangible assets, intellectual capital and innovative practices, our economic prosperity and security need the best knowledge workers. A new paper argues building brain infrastructure at the national level is crucial.
Working partners

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05 Apr 2022

Jamie Cooke

A Fellow-led project, bringing together Fellows in Scotland and the US is seeking to bring new ideas for the future of work to Inverclyde, a proud post-industrial area outside Glasgow.
Work shift

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05 Apr 2022

Alan Lockey

As the Covid-19 pandemic enters its third year, it is time to take stock of the wild and wonderful predictions about work that greeted its arrival.
Healing education

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04 Apr 2022

Bas van den Berg

Several of earth's fundamental systems are at tipping points threatening the future of life. Read how Bas van den Berg sees regenerative higher education as a tool to rebalancing our ecosystem.
Using the ‘nowhere office’ revolution to narrow the disability employment gap

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04 Apr 2022

Catherine Hale

With the growth in home-working, everyone seems to be saying the future of work is flexible, as the government push new legislation. But Catherine Hale, FRSA, says that for disabled people, proposed laws don’t go nearly far enough