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Welcome to the Let’s Talk: Life in
Lockdown series of podcasts from the UoE and Edinburgh Student Association,
keeping us together and sharing experiences in this extraordinary period of
Covid19 social distancing. The University is continuing, but in ways never
before known. Most of us are working and studying away from University
buildings, and in isolation from one another. We are all in this together, but
in vastly diverse circumstances, and it is so interesting to hear from one
another about these.
Sam
Bresland and Jenny Pewsey are 5th year medics seeing the cohort in
the year above fast-tracked through graduation. This experience has propelled
them to find ways to support NHS staff by setting up the Edinburgh branch of
MedicShare: a way for medical students and others to provide childcare for NHS
workers. Sam and Jenny tell us about their work with MedicShare, and how they
themselves are managing the social distancing, and finding different levels of interpretation
and conscientiousness about what ‘distancing’ means. We also talk about where
they were when the lockdown happened – a moment in time that almost froze us in
whatever location we happened to be at the time.
Overcoming Mental Health Stigma, 10bigideas Scotland: Ailie Ross-Oliver,
3rd year Politics undergraduate, joins Harriet Harris, to talk about
her policy research into mental health stigmatisation, as part of the
student-led think-tank, the Buchanan Institute, which has just launched its ‘10
Big...
Published 04/26/21
Let’s Talk podcast,
Islamophobia Awareness
In this episode, I am joined
by staff member Umar Malik and PhD student Estifa’a Zaid, for a special
recording made in Islamophobia Awareness Month. Estifa’a and Umar talk about
their experiences of growing up as Muslims in the UK, of coming to...
Published 11/26/20