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: Marina Lewycka A Short History of Tractors in Ukrainian was recommended by Sarah Whittle for the #WECAN book club in honour of her Ukrainian heritage. It would be an understatement to say I was initially shocked by the suggestion thinking we will have to read about how tractors were invented or something daft. It…
Director: Nora Fingscheidt I watched The Unforgivable when it was first released (2021) but did not blog during the pandemic, courtesy of excessive and abnormal isolation in the UK that lasted too many years and caused me immense stress plus an increased workload. The Unforgivable is not just another Sandra Bullock film (and we know…
Author: Eva St John The Great Deceiver or book five of the Quantum Curators series ended this part of the series I’ve been reading and enjoying enormously. I misunderstood the author’s recent newsletter announcement about the story’s finale and thought this series sadly ends here so I savoured it and read it slowly, but a…
Author: Roisin Meaney I recommended Two Fridays in April as part of the book club originally formed for the #WECAN project. When I first started to read it, I ended up annoyed because it looked like a soppy love story with Dafne, a widowed real estate agent meeting Tom who is trying to sell a…
Author: Caroline Criado Perez Invisible Women book was gifted to me by my dear colleague, Robert Minton-Taylor but as workload would have it I only read it now because it was recommended by a member of a #WECAN project book club so I said yes seeing an opportunity to finally read the piece. Throughout the…
FOOD MATTERS: SUSTAINABILITY, EATING HABITS AND THE ROLE OF PUBLIC RELATIONS AND COMMUNICATIONS IN THE WORLD OF CLIMATE CHANGE Editors: Dr Martina TopićThe University of AlabamaCollege of Communication and Information SciencesDepartment of Advertising and PRmtopic@ua.edu / martinahr@gmail.com Dr Marija Geiger ZemanIvo Pilar Institute of Social SciencesZagreb, CroatiaMarija.GeigerZeman@pilar.hr RATIONALE AND THE CALL FOR PAPERS Sustainability is…
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…
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…
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.…
I finally managed to see The Hunger Games: Mockingjay Part 2 movie, the last part in a series of four movies made based on books by Suzanne Collins. I missed it when it was available in the cinema due to obligations with research, and then it took a while until I managed to see it…
The majority in the UK has voted to leave the EU. It is not a massive majority of the country, but it is the majority of those who voted in the referendum. This referendum result presents a victory of the Leave camp and UKIP that has been campaigning to leave the EU for a long…
We have been hearing for a while that British M&S is doing fine with M&S Food but not so well with fashion. This is despite the fact M&S offers traditionally good quality clothes. The situation in the fashion department looked improved with rise in sales, however, in 2015 a new decline has been reported (Butler,…
Since the turn of a new millennium, there seems to be an uprising in focus of many films and series on time travelling and the dark future ahead of us. It is enough to see the saga on The Hunger Games that offers the most exaggerated criticism of our current situation as well as criticism of…
On my recent trip to Austria, we accidentally ended up in a bar where prostitutes are hanging out and waiting for customers. The reason why we did not figure out what is going on is that these bars are not called clubs or brothels or anything that would lead a tourist to believe what the…
I watched a movie “Burlesque” the other day. It is an old movie (from November 2010), but I only saw it the other day. I just have to comment even though it is not a new movie, because it made an impression on me and I am still thinking about it. The movie received a…
On Saturday, 18th July 2015, I accidentally ended up at Heckyfest festival in Kirklees. It was a nice festival and I really enjoyed it. During the festival, I had to go to the toilet so I went to Lidl, which was across the road from the park where the festival was organised. As I don’t…