The Cumberland Lodge Blog is a space for our Fellows and others to write about their experiences and key learnings from our events and beyond. The views expressed here are not the views of Cumberland Lodge, but of the individuals who write for the blog.
Reflections on a Fellows’ Retreat 2023
20 September 2023
Cumberland Lodge Fellow Rong Wei looks back on her time at the Fellows’ Retreat 2023.[…]
Whose nature is it anyway?
16 September 2023
Cumberland Lodge Fellow 2021-23, Andrew Marks, reflects on the impact of using his Personal Development Grant to help connect LGBTQ+ people with nature in his local community. […]
Memories of a Fellows’ Retreat 2023
15 September 2023
Cumberland Lodge Fellow Cee Swakamisa reflects on the Fellows’ Retreat 2023.[…]
Memories of a Fellows’ Retreat at Cumberland Lodge
3 March 2023
Shahira Shahir, Cumberland Lodge Fellow 2022-24, PhD student in the School of Management at Cardiff Metropolitan University, and Cara (Council for At-Risk Academics) scholar from Afghanistan, shares her thoughts on attending the annual Fellows’ Retreat.[…]
Reflections on the barriers, pitfalls, and possibilities of social mobility
28 March 2022
This March, Cumberland Lodge brought together policymakers, practitioners, academics, and students to exchange knowledge and ideas about the role of education and employment in shaping social mobility. The conference was[…]
Women in leadership: challenges and opportunities
16 March 2022
A blog by Cumberland Lodge Fellow Chandni Patel, looking back on the Dialogue & Debate webinar: ‘Women in Leadership #BreakTheBias’ hosted in March 2022, celebrating International Women’s Day 2022.[…]
‘Justice delayed is justice denied’
8 February 2022
A blog post by Cumberland Lodge Fellow Scott Kaba Matafwali, reflecting on the launch event for the Towards Justice: Law Enforcement & Reconciliation Cumberland Lodge Report.[…]
Impact of COVID-19 on higher education experiences: challenges and opportunities
21 January 2022
A blog post by Cumberland Lodge Fellow Chandni Patel, looking back on the Cumberland Lodge Christmas Seminar 2021.[…]
Othello Retreat: A word or two before you go
12 January 2022
A blog post by Amy Buller Scholar Joshua Rice, looking back on the 2022 Cumberland Lodge Shakespeare Retreat, exploring the play ‘Othello'[…]
Tokenism: a barrier to inclusive diversity
5 January 2022
A blog post by Cumberland Lodge Fellow Nour Nashed, looking back on the ‘Beyond Tokenism’ Dialogue & Debate webinar, streamed live in November 2021.[…]
British-German Democracy Forum: Understanding the past, to shape the present
5 January 2022
A blog by Cumberland Lodge Fellow Callum O’Malley, reflecting on the British-German Democracy Forum that was held at Cumberland Lodge in late 2021[…]
Towards an inclusive and sustainable schooling and education system
16 December 2021
A blog post by Cumberland Lodge Fellow Adenike Adewuni looking back on a Dialogue & Debate webinar on ‘Schooling & Inequality'[…]
A Conversation with Isabella Naylor-Leyland: The Windsor Diaries
1 December 2021
A blog by Cumberland Lodge Fellow Ellen Bristow, reflecting on the recent Cumberland Conversation with Lady Isabella Naylor-Leyland.[…]
On the value of a PhD: back to the discussion on a post-COVID world
29 November 2021
A blog by Cumberland Lodge Fellow Linamaria Pintor Escobar, looking back on Life Beyond the PhD 2021[…]
Beyond rhetoric: Acting intergenerationally on climate
30 September 2021
A blog post by Cumberland Lodge Fellow Josh Ettinger, looking back on the launch of the Climate Futures: Youth Perspectives Cumberland Lodge Report and its accompanying panel discussion[…]