Behavioural Sociologist and Mass Communication Scholar. ILM-certified coach. Environmentalist. Ecofeminist. Vegetarian. Animal Lover. Former Journalist. PR Academic and Convert. Young scholar mentor. Championing research-led teaching. Empowering disempowered and always advocating.
Author: Libby Page After reading magnificent Island Home by Libby Page, I purchased her two other books due to the impact the Island Home made on me. I first read the 24-Hour Café with Lido on my next to-read list. I was attracted by the 24-Hour Café due to the funky title that did not…
The final season finally came to the UK’s Netflix a few weeks ago, so I binged previous seasons to indulge myself in one of my favourite series of all time (yes, I know, Shameless are originally British and I watched it, but trust me the US version is million times better). For those who do…
Author: Jennifer Nansubuga Makumbi I read this book as part of a book club we formed as part of the #WECAN project in our school. It was a recommendation of Dr Karen Vollum-Dix who is turning into one of the greatest benefits of ever dealing with that project, along with Dr Joy Ogbemudia because the…
Author: Delia Owens I finished reading this book yesterday and have struggled all day today in writing this blog because I do not know where to start writing or how to write about this absolute masterpiece. The book was proposed as a reading by a colleague as part of the project book club I formed…
Libby Page I read this book as part of another #WECAN book club. It was yet another book recommended by someone else, this time by a young and very talented colleague who read Page’s previous books (I didn’t) and thought it might be worth reading this one too. This recommendation was not one of those…
Glennon Doyle As part of the #WECAN book club, this month we read Glennon Doyle’s powerful book ‘Untamed: Stop pleasing, start living’. The title of the book initially reads like some book about grown-up women’s empowerment, which is not what I normally read. Therefore, I was not thrilled when this was proposed by one of…
Eva St John This is book 2 of the Quantum Curators series. I wrote about the first one here The second book starts with Julius going through training to become a Quantum Curator. When I started to read and realised what he is doing, I thought whether I would miss the Earth if dragged to…
Eva St. John Rating: 5/5 I just finished reading this book, as part of the #WECAN project book club I founded and boy, was this a good proposal for the book club. I stayed up last night until 3 am as I was unable to let it go and then I kept reading today until…
Last year, as part of the ‘Women Empowered through Coaching and Networking’, or shortly, the #WECAN project, I led a research study conducting a systematic literature review on women and networking. Other than the usual stuff of women facing barriers for not always being able to network and networks still functioning as boy’s clubs, with…
A Call for Papers for a Special Issue of American Behavioral Scientist Guest Editors: Dr Martina Topić, Reader, Leeds Business School, Leeds Beckett University, UK Dr Ioannis Kostopoulos, Reader, Liverpool Business School, Liverpool John Moore University, UK Dr Miloš Krstić, Associate Professor, Faculty of Sciences and Mathematics, University of Niš, Serbia Rationale Environmental affairs are…
I watched this series in two evenings, as I did not feel that it is one to let go. It was an absolute binge-worthy marvel. The series portrays a life of Beth Harmon (Anya Taylor-Joy), a chess prodigy who discovers a passion for chess in an orphanage in the 1950s. She starts playing chess with…
Netflix’s new series called Ratched is something I thought I would watch slowly. As it turned out, I binged it in one night as the series is really interesting and raises some important questions. In the series set in the 1940s California, we meet Mildred Ratched (Sarah Paulson), a nurse who clearly carries darkness in…
Director: Harry Bradbeer Rating: 2/5 This film looked exciting especially since we have a girl as a leading character. Therefore, I thought it was going to be a true feminist story. As it turns out, I was a bit disappointed. The film narrates a story of Enola Holmes, younger sister of Sherlock Holmes who is…
Director: Jeff Orlowski Rating: 5/5 I watched The Social Dilemma as soon as it was released but did not have the time to write a blog (this has happened all too often for a while now). However, since the whole hoopla with Facebook kicking off about the film, I felt I need to write something.…
CALL FOR BOOK CHAPTERS Women and Leadership in the Public Relations Industry: An International Perspective. London: Rutledge Editor: Dr Martina Topić, Leeds Beckett University, UK (M.Topic@leedsbeckett.ac.uk) As part of the EUPRERA project on Women in Public Relations, which I lead, I have so far edited and released four reports and one journal article based on…
Get a book on Amazon I just finished reading the book by inspirational Kate Cousens, a PR practitioner who wrote an autobiographical book about her experience of rising up in ranks in what is still a man’s world. Unlike many books telling women what to do and how to succeed by concentrating on teaching them…
Director: Lorene Scafaria Rating: 4/5 This film is based on a true story of strippers who were robbing rich men by drugging them. The story first broke in the New York Times when Jessica Pressler wrote an article “The Hustlers at Scores: The Ex-Strippers Who Stole From (Mostly) Rich Men and Gave to, Well, Themselves”.…
by Andrew Hastie Rating: 4/5 This is the second book in the Infinity Engines book series. I absolutely loved the first blog and I enjoyed this second book too. Get a book on Amazon The story in this book continues with an alternative timeline after it was abruptly changed at the end of book 1…
Director: Jim Mickle Rating: 5/5 I watched this film last night, and I was surprised because nothing in the short description of the film mentioned time-travel. The film was really interesting. Well, I always think that time travel is interesting because it is my favourite genre but this one was really, really interesting. Essentially, in…
Everybody who knows me better knows I am a massive fan of the English working-class culture. I love everything about it, humour, food and most of all the beautiful ‘get on with it’ spirit, which helps English working-class cope with everyday troubles. To an extent, the working class (of Manchester though) has been presented in…
Author: Rona Jaffe This book gives a shocking account of what women faced when they first joined offices in the US as secretaries. Get a book on Amazon The author was a secretary herself and she wrote the book based on her experiences albeit in the form of a novel. The book has been initially…