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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.
I’m Harriet Harris, The University
Chaplain, and in each short interview week I’m joined by students or staff of
the University who talk about what they are doing in the lockdown.
6th year medic Kritika
Kalia tells us how her graduation was brought forward by three months so that
she is able to join in the frontline NHS work. Final year medical students are finding
their training needing to kick in earlier than expected. Kalia is in an interim
period, as so many of us are – in a waiting game. Kalia’s interim is between
graduation and being given her posting. She will come back and tell us how it
is going, once the ward work begins. Kalia also talks about the pressures of
social distancing even on the spacious beaches of Norfolk, and how taking up
the harp has become a fantastic new hobby that may never have happened without
the social response we are needing to make to COVID19.
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