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15 Apr 2024: Another good lesson! Fortunately the experience was highly marketable, so I then joined Mothercare to run their direct (as opposed to stores) division.

12 Mar 2021: 13. English. 11. History. 8. Economics. 7. Geography. 6. Philosophy. 6.

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5 Oct 2022: Developing my team’s regenerative agriculture idea tested our ability to balance a vision ambitious enough to make an impact with a plan grounded in science and economics, our creativity through ... I’d like to build enough credibility and influence

5 Jul 2024: I think this is a great lesson for our students – making a material change takes determined effort, harnessing all our resources, a great deal of focus and some patience to get

11 Nov 2022: Dr Freeling completed an MA in Mathematics, an MPhil in Control Engineering and Operation Research and a PhD in Decision Analysis and Behavioural Economics at St John’s.

13 Feb 2023: My time at Human Rights Watch has been marked by multiple crises, including nationwide anti-government protests in Lebanon, an acute economic crisis that has impoverished more than 80% of the ... Anti-government protest in Lebanon. The combination of the

11 Apr 2022: Following an Economics degree and three wonderful years at St John’s, I trained to be an Economics teacher in London and qualified in 1987. ... Initially, this was perhaps motivated by not being particularly drawn to the careers often suggested to

20 May 2022: Perhaps surprisingly it also turns out that some of the lessons learnt while sitting in the noxious fumes at Masaya and other volcanoes have a deeper relevance to life and evolution.

2 Mar 2023: It fosters collegiate spirit and breaks boundaries between genders, ages, areas of study, cultural and socio-economic backgrounds, and levels of fitness and physical ability – everyone can participate in the life

31 Oct 2023: I also had Indian classical singing lessons and was a member of the Manchester Boys’ Choir.

10 Nov 2020: Supported by St John’s, I studied for a Master’s in Environmental Economics and Policy in Land Economy, and used that as a springboard to join the Sustainability and Climate ... The Impact Measurement team at PwC wants to change this. We use concepts

14 Dec 2022: I am particularly impressed that the fund takes into account cost-of-living increases; the economic situation the country is facing will only make it more difficult for many students to

27 Apr 2021: I am so grateful to my Studentship for alleviating part of my economic burden.

31 Mar 2021: After studying economics at John’s I joined the civil service fast track and worked developing policies for the government in a range of areas from education to contingency planning. ... I had three children and moved into teaching in 2011, and I am

26 Apr 2022: I’ve learnt that the industry is exactly that, an industry. In 2019 the creative industries contributed £115.9 billion to the UK economy, representing 5.9% of the total economic ... output. To put that in context, in the same year the fishing industry

15 Apr 2021: Peoples Health Trust, where I am a trustee, believes that social and economic determinants are key.

11 Nov 2020: I expect that the lessons learned from this experience will have a fundamental and lasting impact on our culture.

11 Nov 2020: This is why it is key to design models of sustainable farming specially tailored for the socio-economic reality of the place and farming communities involved.

15 Apr 2024: I taught myself to play so that I could join them, but I never had any formal music lessons.

10 Oct 2023: and economic challenges that we might recognise today.

20 Aug 2023: He is a non-executive director of the UK Infrastructure Bank, an Honorary Professor of Economics at Exeter University and was awarded the honour of CMG in Queen Elizabeth’s final

5 Jul 2024: Climate scientists and brain surgeons are not asked for their expert opinions on economic policy, yet we seem happy to give anyone a voice when it comes to climate science debates.

10 Nov 2020: Climate scientists and brain surgeons are not asked for their expert opinions on economic policy, yet we seem happy to give anyone a voice when it comes to climate science debates.

11 Apr 2022: I went up to St John’s to read Economics in 1988.

14 Nov 2023: The World Economic Forum recently shared a great little video that explains what we do.

17 Nov 2020: Any transfers of your data overseas (outside of the European Economic Area) are protected either by an ‘adequacy decision’ by the European Commission (declaring the recipient country as a ‘safe’ territory

11 Nov 2022: So, once a week during term-time and more intensely during the holidays, I would head down to Cambridge Airport and take flying lessons from RAF instructors.

31 Jan 2022: Her research on international trade, multinational trade agreements, and trade policy has appeared in numerous peer-reviewed journals including the American Economic Review, the Canadian Journal of Economics, the European Journal ... master’s and

29 Apr 2021: I wanted a career in industry applying the lessons I’d learnt in my PhD, but 20 years ago few companies were interested.

26 Jan 2023: lessons that stay with me today: never give up; you can always do better; a crew can be faster than the sum of its parts if it works together; and you

8 Apr 2022: and passing on the lessons I’ve been lucky enough to stumble across since I left St John’s.

9 Feb 2021: Dr Peter Linehan telling ghostly tales. Rashmi Singh giving us a lesson in global politics.

20 May 2022: Working as an assistant instructor at Princeton had shown me how to organise lesson plans and balance constructive criticism with encouragement in my comments on student writing.

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28 Jan 2021: The economic environment ahead and the shocks of the pandemic are stark reminders of the importance of the endowment – driven largely by centuries of legacy giving – in supporting every aspect of

19 Jan 2023: He is a non-executive director of the UK Infrastructure Bank, an Honorary Professor of Economics at Exeter University and was awarded the honour of CMG in Queen Elizabeth’s final

16 Dec 2020: While the impact has been devastating, some of our responses hold lessons for the future.

27 May 2021: Accessibility of treatment. Unfortunately, access to psychotherapy is prohibitively expensive, and may exclude many from different socio-economic backgrounds.

24 Apr 2023: He is a non-executive director of the UK Infrastructure Bank, an Honorary Professor of Economics at Exeter University and was awarded the honour of CMG in Queen Elizabeth’s final

26 Nov 2020: Government policy aside, however, my personal opinion is that the big issues still holding us back are lack of political will, misaligned economic incentives and older vested interests.

16 Dec 2020: Often people assume that food production is balanced because farming systems are constrained by the inherent limits of soil and nature, but external economic market forces have skewed the balance and

11 Apr 2022: I think this is a great lesson for our students – making a material change takes determined effort, harnessing all our resources, a great deal of focus and some patience to get

29 Apr 2021: Although both of my parents sang in the Marple Congregational Church choir, and I was sent for (rather fruitless) piano lessons at an early age, my childhood was not filled with

11 Apr 2022: It looked at eating habits across early modern Europe and the drivers (health, economics, religion and politics) behind people’s food choices, global supply chains and the impact of colonialism on

22 May 2023: It allows me to combine my interests in psychology, economics, business, chemistry and creative development.

23 May 2022: Professor David Green (1970) studied Economics at St John’s and worked for the homelessness charity Shelter before pursuing a career in Education. ... I chose to study Economics at Cambridge for idealistic reasons. I wanted to contribute to ending the

24 Nov 2022: Father and daughter, James Mackay (1968 – Economics) and Hermione Mackay (2008 –Modern Languages) will share their experience of College pre and post the admission of women.

13 Apr 2021: Tamsin joined the Diplomatic Service in 2005 as a diplomatic service economist working on economic issues, and as the economist in the Iraq Policy Unit in 2006–2007. ... She studied Economics at the University of Cambridge. Tamsin is married with two