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Drs. Erika James and Lynn Wooten have been friends and each others mentors for decades. The met as ... [+]
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Can friends become each other's mentors - friendtors -simultaneously balancing extraordinary friendship and peer mentorship?

The higher you climb the corporate ladder, the more challenging it can become to find a mentor who can envision your potential in ways you can't see. In leadership and academia, it is rare to find individuals who possess professional excellence and genuine respect for one another to the point that they willingly mentor each other. Drs. Lynn Perry Wooten and Erika James, two trailblazing women at the pinnacle of their careers, defied conventional norms by forging a unique and powerful bond as friendtors.

Dr. Lynn Perry Wooten, the President of Simmons University, and Dr. Erika James, the Dean of the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania, are two powerhouses who met in their twenties as graduate students at the University of Michigan. There were few Black students in their program, so the two tended to sit next to each other. The bond of friendship took hold in one particular class, in an auditorium with more seats than students. The two chatted while waiting for the notoriously late eccentric professor to show up.

Drs. Erika James and Lynn Wooten met as graduate students at the University of Michigan.
Courtesy of Lynn Wooden and Erika James

In a time before the internet, texting, and social media, Wooten and James would call each other on the telephone and make plans to socialize or study together. Their friendship blossomed, and by the time they were young assistant professors, they studied diversity through different lenses.

One day, James, then a faculty member at Tulane, called Wooten with some disturbing data. Texaco was amidst a discrimination upheaval often referred to as the jellybean suit, referring to the derogatory references to minority groups some senior executives at the company called jellybeans. James and Wooten decided to join forces and investigate the case, and what they found set the stage for their life's work. Before long, they researched all types of discrimination cases, including gender and age. As they saw patterns in how executives responded, they realized these were not simply discrimination cases but a leadership crisis.

Crisis leadership became dominant in their thinking and future work. They understood whether it is an oil spill, hurricane, or pandemic, the crisis and its response have common elements and became the blueprint for crisis leadership.

The dynamic duo each brought a different skill to the table. Wooten came in with the macro-level strategic thinking, and James with the micro-organizational psychology lens. They complemented each other to perfection. Their work created a paradigm shift in how crisis management is viewed to this day. They argued that for leadership to work in a crisis, it needs to be less reactionary and more of a forward-thinking, intentional response. Together, they presented at conferences and wrote countless academic articles and books. "The Texaco case was a defining moment for us," said James. Their friendship cemented, and their peer mentorship escalated; they became 'friendtors.' Read my article on their latest collaborative project on crisis leadership.

Peers rise together, and you will not be the most junior member in your friend group forever. Wooten and James are the perfect examples of two people who met in graduate school and are now respected giants in their fields, leading entire schools. While they never competed with each other for the same job, they were each other's staunchest supporters and confidantes.

Wooten and James started their latest roles of President and Dean on the same day in 2020. As they climbed the newest rung on their professional ladder, they talked each other through their goals, excitements and perceived challenges. They each played the role of audience, advocate or problem solver, based on what was needed at the time, always listening and never pushing.

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These close friends talk to each other daily on their way to work and think through challenges together. They are friends and peer mentors who can empathize with each other's challenges, support each other, and finish each other's sentences. They showcase the power of true friendship, collaboration, and mentorship; they are each other's friendtors.

Learn more about Drs. James and Wooten in the book, The Success Factor and in their latest joint book, The Prepared Leader.

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Friendtor - When Your Friend Makes You Better

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The bond of friendship took hold in one particular class, in an auditorium with more seats than students.

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Kanishka talking about his journey

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Key note and final session of our dynamic week 

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Elena welcomes key note, Kanishka Arumugam  https://www.linkedin.com/in/kanishka-arumugam-7819571a/

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https://warwick.ac.uk/fac/arts/schoolforcross-facultystudies/igsd/sts/gallery

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Early Career Researchers' (ECR) Sustainability Training School (STS)

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Zeina, Raj, Isomkhon, Sibilla.

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Shey, Gabriella, Xiaohan, Hamza, Anu

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Asma, Hannah, Paul, Gunnel

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Amy, Shahad, Saiyem, Alice. 🥈🏆

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Liv, Michael, Hannah and Kee 🏆🥇

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The collective creators: the bright side and the dark side of AI

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The collective creators: the bright side and the dark side of AI

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Please give us feedback and reflection on this tricky topic!

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We “hygger” in the park.

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Imagine the significance of this transformation in the lives of people who rely on contaminated water sources. In Ghana, like many other developing countries, inadequate access to clean water is a pressing issue affecting health, education, and overall well-being.
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Ghana environment pay cost of illegal mining

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The theoretical framework used by Hasardz Group

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The theoretical framework used by Hasardz Group

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Role of private sector and corporations 

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Role of private sector and corporations 

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Doing good is also good for the business.
Who interest do the initiatives ultimately serve?
Coca Cola RAIN , Microsoft Airband
growing recognition for the company as well as giving some positives to the community. But who decides what the community actually wants?

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Owning their research and balanced power relations. Sharing the control over the research agenda to encourage and promote mutual learning. Engage and mobilise marginalised people and to help them implement their own for sustainable community spirit.

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The media depicts Philippino population as always happy but hides the people and the those who put them at risk.
How can communities reclaim their narrative?
How multi stakeholders enable local resilience ?

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https://www.google.com/amp/s/amp.cnn.com/cnn/2019/10/27/middleeast/lebanon-human-chain-trnd/index.html

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Please add a photo that captures your own community spirit

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Community spirit

Liv, Kee, Michael, Hannah

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https://padlet.com/gabriellacrawfordkoltai1/flooding-experience-uvqjcs7njec5w0x9

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Similarities and differences

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Paul describes the terror of the flooding in his house.

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Human, environmental and economic impacts

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How can we mitigate disaster impact ?
early warning systems, building better reservoirs

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Close your eyes and imagine water pouring  into your community 

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Close your eyes and imagine water pouring  into your community 

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Shey, Gabriella, Xiaohan, Hamza and Anu.

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Group works and actors to asses illegal gold mining in Ghana

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Hannah, Gunel, Asma, Paul

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Kerry says AI isn’t the problem, it is the people! Lots of things Invented for the good, but we find ways to corrupt things!
Wendy says there should be some governance to protect us.
‘Stephanie says she would be in the middle.

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Final points

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Islam

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Sibilla

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Raj

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Zeina, Raj, Islam and Sibilla The bright and dark side of AI

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Please share a picture of how community spirit is depicted in your culture

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https://www.unsdsn.org/

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https://warwick.ac.uk/fac/cross_fac/ias/

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The Institute of Advanced Study, University of Warwick promotes and supports research that is interdisciplinary, innovative and international

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Restricted Freedom ? Research consultancy constraints and Mile stones. Where is the window of opportunity?
Pace and depth of the research differences. What happens to the results? Private is more likely to be carried out to have a direct next step to make a change.
Are they merging ? And can they cross over?

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Creative ways of disseminating research  

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Creative ways of disseminating research  

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Here s a unique way of showing research using infographics

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Early Career Researcher Development pathways 

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Stuart Coles chairs the session today as we welcome guests Iva Merheim-Eyre, Igor Merheim-Eyre, Liam Shah, Oliver Sutcliffe and Simoni De Ros.

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Early career researcher development pathways 

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Stuart Coles chairs the session and includes contributions from Simoni Da Ros, Iva Merheim-Eyre, Igor Merheim-Eyre, Olivia Sutcliffe, Liam Shah.  see the programme for bio links https://warwick.ac.uk/fac/arts/schoolforcross-facultystudies/igsd/sts/programme/

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Public health research in conjunction with the Lous government
Public institution mainly doing research and they want to achieve 100% health coverage by 2025. They request $2million to conduct further research and effective communication to the communities and ethnic groups. This is from research since Covid and shows the evidence collected from the affected community groups.
Have facts - how many people are affected? 50% of the population. Looking not just at now, but for future proofing the public
minister might also offer alternatives - how do you answer if you don’t feel it is appropriate? Like offering Research to be done in uk not in the field.
Keep abreast of media commentary - lots of health workers are leaving the developing countries and coming to warm higher wages in developed counties.

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Green urban spacing proposal to our ‘minister’ 

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Green urban spacing proposal to our ‘minister’ 

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SDG goal 11, 3 and 13.
Urban Green spaces in cities reduces the need for air conditioning in city bustling which saves money and carbon.
Accessible spaces are being requested in the central areas.
Research comes sources - be specific where they are from.
Concrete projects - describe the projects and give them financial allocations
Relate to priority countries
Is the minister the only one who your proposal relates to?
Have facts and figures to hand
And look at surrounding research, initiatives etc that link to your proposal
Who are you affiliated with? Are there any pressure groups you re linked with.
Bring along a diverse group so not just researchers.

Top tip - remind the minister what their policies are related to the project! You have done so much and It was in your manifesto when you were elected that …….. blah blah blah……

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Responsible use of AI for teenagers request for support to create a policy and guidance. To prevent the opportunity for dark AI.  End request International summit.
In preparing of this they request Awareness sessions, focus group, government initiative, industry engagement and regulation, institutional inclusion and international intervention.
Opportunity to take this international issue and lead from the front.
Who are you representing ?
What are you asking for?
What regulations do you want?
Time is short and information needs to be succinct and have ease of use.

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Preparing a policy briefing for our “meet the minister’’ role play exercise 

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Preparing a policy briefing for our “meet the minister’’ role play exercise 

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Resource for thinking about policy engagement

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Warwick Summer School Engagement Worksheet

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Individual Research presentation session 6

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Individual Research presentation session 6

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Final speaker AMM Noor Us Saiyem Khan

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Individual Research presentations session 6

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Xiaohan Yu

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The university has written a press piece about our pioneering training school. Read all about us.

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University of Warwick launches Sustainability Training School

This week (5-9 June 23) the University of Warwick welcomes its first cohort of early career researchers (ECR) to its newly developed Sustainability Training School (STS). The school has been created by the university's Institute of Global Sustainable Development (IGSD) in partnership with Eutopia, a university alliance that brings together 10 European universities, and with the support of the Enhancing Research Culture Fund.

Working with people at the beginning of their professional careers, IGSD will look to explore new research agendas and methods for sustainable development. It will seek ways to make research more impactful for the policy and to support communities impacted by environmental challenges. The school hopes to build lasting networks for the future and raise a new generation of scholars advocating for the wellbeing of the planet.

The theme of the first programme for the training school is 'Resilience and Sustainable Development'. Through their individual and group projects, attendees will be given the opportunity to work seek solutions to global and local challenges such as the earthquake in Turkey and Syria, war in Ukraine and flooding in Pakistan.

Professor Elena Korosteleva, Director of the IGSD, said: "Through the launch of this first ECR Sustainability Training School at the University of Warwick, we hope to connect, equip and mobilise Early Career Researchers working on sustainable development across the globe, to help us advocate with a collective voice, for change in how we think and act, and how we can protect our planet".

"We are equipping our ECRs with skills and ways of thinking innovatively and creatively, and to become a network to support our future Sustainability Training Schools across our partner institutions. We want our cohort to use this time to engage in conversations around sustainable development and what can be done to support communities on all levels to deal with adversity and impact of environmental challenges around the globe."

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Show all news items This week (5-9 June 23) the University of Warwick welcomes its first cohort of early career researchers (ECR) to its newly developed Sustainability Training School (STS). The school has been created by the university's Institute of Global Sustainable Development (IGSD) in partnership with Eutopia, a university alliance that brings together 10 European universities, and with the support of the Enhancing Research Culture Fund.

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Individual Research presentation session 6

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Zeina Nazer

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Harriet Richmond

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Sustainability Training Team Building Collage June 2023 PDF

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Individual Research Presentation session 6

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Individual Research Presentation session 6

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Any Madugalla

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Multistatic LiDAR for Autonomous Vehicles Appplications - Warwick

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Individual Research presentation session 5

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Individual Research presentation session 5

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Kee Xayavong

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Individual Research Presentation session 5

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Michael Lim

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Individual Research presentation session 5

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Gabriella Crawford

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Raj talking about sustainability in company where he works and steps they are taking and knowledge that he wants to take back to the company.

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Presenting IDD at ADA University, 2023 final

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Reclaiming resilience

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Group project groups working together to visualise their projects ready for Fridays presentation session

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Collage involves using perception to understand emotions and feelings, which in turn leads to creative thinking.

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Collage involves using perception to understand emotions and feelings, which in turn leads to creative thinking.

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Harriet begins by explaining a creating method that will lead to the cohort in their project groups to make a collage and presentation. Let’s get creative !

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Harriet Richmond https://warwick.ac.uk/fac/arts/schoolforcross-facultystudies/igsd/sts/programme/hrichmond/

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Dr Harriet Richmond is the Researcher Development Consultant at the University of Warwick, with responsibility for staff researcher development. Prior to joining Warwick in 2022, Harriet was a Head of Department in the Faculty of Business and Law at the University of Northampton.

Harriet received a PhD in Drama from the University of Birmingham, UK in 2019. Her thesis examines the relationship between theatre design education, design and scenography practice and emergent professional identities of theatre designers by reconstructing the curriculum and pedagogy of the Motley Theatre Design Course, using visual and object elicitation research methods.

Harriet's research interests are the formation and development of professional identities, explored through creative research methods, including photo and object elicitation, and art. Harriet is one of the three co-founders of the Non-Traditional Research Methods Network (NTRM), an interdisciplinary international research network that seeks to share novel and innovative research methods.

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Dr Harriet Richmond is the Researcher Development Consultant at the University of Warwick, with responsibility for staff researcher development. Prior to joining Warwick in 2022, Harriet was a Head of Department in the Faculty of Business and Law at the University of Northampton. Harriet received a PhD in Drama from the University of Birmingham, UK in 2019.

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Liv Nielsen

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Individual Research presentation session 4

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Individual Research presentation session 4

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Isomkhon Garrarov

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Can play a role on agriculture development, employment and economic growth

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The role of agriculture on Azerbaijan’s economy

Impact on farmers lives
Water management challenges ; decreasing water levels in the Caspian Sea and the Kura river
Traditional water management systems like wells and reservoirs are expensive and can only extract a limited amount of water
Aquaponics is water efficient but costly

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Individual Research Presentations session 3

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Individual Research Presentations session 3

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Rajkumar Bhaduri

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Design sheet

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Bo’s Slides Impact and Innovation

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Paul Arkoh

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Individual Research Presentation session 3

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Hannah Oh

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Asma Al Rahbi

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https://warwick.padlet.org/bokelestyn/igsd-becoming-innovators-with-dr-bo-kelestyn-3xs1cv7l9zrvd11v