The ‘live’ aspect of festivals will need to be rethought
Let’s talk about skills

Emma Hill, Careers Development Consultant, calls for transferable skills to be at the heart of a reimagined recruitment approach post Covid-19. In the current climate the skills you have, in particular the transferable skills you have, are going to be…
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Business as ‘unusual’

A positive career mindset can help shape your career – even in the midst of the ‘coronacoaster’ – and the Graduate Futures programme was just one way our Student Futures team is gearing up to help our graduates and alumni,…
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Beyond Lockdown: A Stage, a Page and an Arts Lab

Could a membership base built on subscriptions become the model to relaunch theatre post Covid-19? PhD Researcher Martin Belk thinks the history of innovation that launched The Traverse Theatre in Edinburgh and The London Arts Lab in the 1960s provides…
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100 days at my kitchen table

Julie Hutchison, co-host of #trusteehour along with Dr Miles Weaver of The Business School, Edinburgh Napier University and Charities Specialist at Aberdeen Standard Capital, offers a personal reflection on a lockdown milestone. 19th June marks 100 days at my kitchen…
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An MBA to cultivate the leadership skills demanded by Industry 4.0
Lockdown and an unseen challenge: domestic abuse

Dr Richard Whitecross, Head of Law at Edinburgh Napier University, writes on the challenge of domestic abuse under lockdown and provides signposting to sources of support. Over the past three months, the impact of coronavirus on the NHS, on jobs…
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Dynamic Supply Chains in Uncertain Times

While supply chain disruption and volatility is not new, it appears to have hit home with the general public due to the current impact on people’s daily lives. In the past, some lessons have been learnt from disruption of key…
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Volunteer Tourism and Coronavirus

As workplaces close around the world, we are beginning to question the repercussions for those who are losing their income as a result. But in few places could the impact be so detrimental as within the volunteer tourism sector. We…
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