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Autumn Theme: Unlearning Perfection

This autumn, We invite you to reflect on the idea of “Unlearning Perfection.” Our blog submissions this autumn coincide with the biannual Pecha Kucha evening on 11 November 2025, and we’d love to see how this theme…

Introducing Growth in Motion

“The journey of a thousand miles must begin with a single step,” said Lao Tzu – and that’s exactly what growth looks like. Step by step, often without realising it, we change, adapt, and move forward. Only when we…

Success Doesn’t Come Without Setbacks

By Erin Cruickshank, Enterprising Mind of the Year Winner 2025 When I first set out on my Working Integrated Year Abroad, I had one goal: to make language learning more accessible for young people from state-educated…

Picking Up the Pieces

Rebecca Cornwell, Public Engagement Officer, School of Biology shares her love of knitting and what it has taught her about failure. In life, as with knitting, you can always pick up the pieces and mend the tears.  As…

I am not scared of failure! My ego is…

Entrepreneur and Enterprising Mind of the Year 2023 Runner-Up Pabita Kister writes of her experiences with failure and how she came to realise that the journey and the process are much more important than the end…

Thoughts on Workplace Failure – Cat Wilson

By Cat Wilson, Director of the Centre for Educational Enhancement and Development I was recently asked to deliver a Pecha Kucha talk about ‘learning from failure’ and managed to fill up 20 slides with photos of my dog…

Interview with Dr Prabs Dehal

TRIGGER WARNING – themes of miscarriage and endometriosis. Dr Prabs Dehal candidly discusses her experience with failure and how she has grown as an individual in the process. Dr Dehal is the Engineering Coordinator in…

Interview with Dr Shruti Narayanswamy

Dr Shruti Narayanswamy candidly discusses her experience with failure and how she has grown as an individual in the process. Dr Narayanswamy is the Entrepreneurial Education Developer at CEED and the coordinator for…

Building Resilience in Coding

By Anonymous Failure happens almost every day in coding, and it is inevitable. Computer Science students in fourth and second year reflect on their experience with building resilience in coding. Your code will fail a…