We talk to Dr Gemma Sharp to explore her approach to planning for impactful research in Women’s Mental Health, menstruation, and the menopause. Gemma is applying Theory of Change to her impact planning, setting key impact goals around local, national, and global education of practitioners, teachers, and women to achieve greater equality in their educational and work outcomes.

Exeter Impact Podcast Ep. 6: Planning research impact in Women’s Mental Health with Dr Gemma Sharp

Session 1 Attentional Grounding

Session 2 Attention to Sound

Session 3 Breath Body Grounding Meditation

Values Practice

Breathing Space

'Bog Talk' earths us in the sphagnum squidge of bogs to draw out the magic of peatlands in Dartmoor and Bodmin Moor in south west England. We’ll be chatting about poetry, place, peatland restoration, tracing conversations and creations made over a year, from spring to spring. In this episode, we speak to our project partners at the South West Peatland Partnership at one of their sites on Dartmoor. High on the moor, surrounded by pools of greening sphagnum, we discuss the role of the project, change, and how the team share their work and inspire new generations to care for these extraordinary landscapes. 

Bog Talk is produced and presented by Rose Ferraby, and this episode features George Kohler, Eleanor Baker, Rachael Land and Justine Read, all from the South West Peatland Partnership. It is a project for RENEW at the University of Exeter, in collaboration with Natural England, the Poetry Society and the South West Peatland Partnership. And is funded by Natural England through the Protected Sites Strategy.

Bog Talk Episode 3 Sphagnum Pools

'Bog Talk' earths us in the sphagnum squidge of bogs to draw out the magic of peatlands in Dartmoor and Bodmin Moor in south west England. We’ll be chatting about poetry, place, peatland restoration, tracing conversations and creations made over a year, from spring to spring. In this episode we talk to Natasha Ryan from the Poetry Society about our collaborative work with schools. We discuss the importance of encouraging young people to explore poetic approaches to peatlands and creating new resources and opportunities for schools. 

Bog Talk is produced and presented by Rose Ferraby, and this episode features Natasha Ryan from the Poetry Society. It is a project for RENEW at the University of Exeter, in collaboration with Natural England, the Poetry Society and the South West Peatland Partnership. And is funded by Natural England through the Protected Sites Strategy.

Bog Talk Episode 4 Becoming a Bog

'Bog Talk' earths us in the sphagnum squidge of bogs to draw out the magic of peatlands in Dartmoor and Bodmin Moor in south west England. We’ll be chatting about poetry, place, peatland restoration, tracing conversations and creations made over a year, from spring to spring. This episode features readings by Fiona Benson and Richard Scott of their commissioned poetry for the Bog Talk project. The poets each followed their own threads of interest. Their poems furtle and surge around and into the soggy worlds of bogs. 

Bog Talk is produced and presented by Rose Ferraby, and this episode features poets Fiona Benson and Richard Scott. The poems heard here are the copyright of the poets, and must not be reused or reproduced.  Bog Talk is a project for RENEW at the University of Exeter, in collaboration with Natural England, the Poetry Society and the South West Peatland Partnership. And is funded by Natural England through the Protected Sites Strategy.

Session 1 Attentional Grounding

University of Exeter

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