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Read more: Back Together Again: The Booksellers Association Conference 2021
Back Together Again: The Booksellers Association Conference 2021
After more than eighteen months of a face-to-face industry events famine, Back Together Again, the 2021 BA Conference which started with the Gardners Trade Show on Sunday 12th September and continued with the conference itself the following day, was an absolute triumph. It demonstrated that independent booksellers are not only alive and well, but despite…
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Read more: The 2021 – 2022 Academic Year: Covid, academia, academic publishing and Gold Leaf’s birthday!
The 2021 – 2022 Academic Year: Covid, academia, academic publishing and Gold Leaf’s birthday!
Covid is still with us, along with many restrictions and quasi-restrictions, even though this summer has in some ways appeared to be more “normal”, at least in the UK, than last. “Freedom Day” happened, although it was a bit of a damp squib – essentially, it consisted of the government telling us that it is…
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Read more: Learning from Libraries: UK academic librarians support their teaching colleagues during Covid-19
Learning from Libraries: UK academic librarians support their teaching colleagues during Covid-19
Introduction “A man will turn over half a library to make one book.” Dr Samuel Johnson, English lexicographer, 1775 Dr Johnson’s words were more prophetic than he knew. He lived in an age which thought of libraries as storage houses for thousands of codex volumes. And that, of course, is what libraries continued to be…
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Read more: Supporting student mental health at Nottingham Trent University
Supporting student mental health at Nottingham Trent University
Paul Dodsley and Leah Wareham together form the hub of the student support service at Nottingham Trent University, where 30,000 students are studying at any one time. Paul describes the service as “prevention-led” – its aim is to take hold of opportunities to support students before they slip into difficulties, rather than afterwards. It has…
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Read more: Mental health of international undergraduates in a time of global crisis
Mental health of international undergraduates in a time of global crisis
As part of our mini-series about undergraduate mental health, we tried to find out more about the specific issues international students face at this time of global crisis, and which strategies universities and students themselves are deploying to address them. First, to provide some clarity: the term “mental health” is frequently used ambiguously, but for…
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