footprints’
Parliament, Birdcage and Snow - May 2, 2013
Well its now January 2013 and after a good break being back at home for the Christmas holidays it is back to work, though before I can settle back in it is time for a nucleargraduates training week, where our first destination is London! So began the trip to London, though before any of the [...]
Technical Report Writing Course -
Strolling the streets of Glasgow city centre at rush hour one Thursday morning, suited up, I felt like a boss. Entering a plush hotel only enhanced my status of importance around Scotland’s biggest city. The course I was attending was Technical Report Writing, run by IMechE. I thought this would be a good way to [...]
High Impact Presentations, I have time for two questions who has the first question -
A few weeks ago I was asked last minute to fill a space on a course. The course was called high impact presentations; it lasted for two days and was taught by a corporate training company called Dale Carnegie. The name of the course did make me feel a little uneasy, presentations are not something [...]
Superphénix - March 19, 2013
Superphenix. Whilst admittedly sounding like a suspect German techno-disco club from name alone, the site of the now non-operational French Fast Reactor offered a fascinating insight into the Research and Development and Decommissioning programme of the French Nuclear Industry. Tucked away on the banks of the Rhone River east of Lyon, the iconic structure of [...]
Palais des Nations - March 11, 2013
As part of Cohort Five’s Footprints, we were lucky enough to be given a tour round the Palace of Nations, the United Nations Office at Geneva (UNOG). With more than 8000 meetings a year and over 1600 staff, UNOG is the second biggest UN station after New York and the headquarters for numerous agencies including [...]
Team Xenon Blog - March 9, 2013
Chapter 1 – Training zone 1 Once upon a time, far far away (in the middle of Cumbria) there was a group of eager to go nucleargraduates, all alone and singular. Well Jen and the team were never going to let that stand. We were thrusted into teams and formed the group that would later [...]
UK Mission in Geneva - February 28, 2013
During Cohort fives footprints visit to Geneva we were able to visit the UK mission stationed there. The UK mission in Geneva represents a number of government departments and aims to achieve the government’s domestic, foreign, development and security policy objectives. This is achieved through engagement and participation in international organisations, principally the United Nations [...]
Her Story . . . - February 26, 2013
I recently completed a questionnaire for The Women in Science, Engineering and Technology (WiSET). This group aims to address the under-representation of women in STEM subjects, degrees and jobs in the workplace. Part of their website is a section called Her Story which offers a resource bank of profiles with information highlighting progression routes into [...]
C.A.S.C.A.D.E. - February 13, 2013
I nucleargraduates we’re put into teams, that we work with throughout the scheme. The team I am in is named Cascade. One day we were asked to iterate how we felt about our team’s experience within nucleargraduates, and we came up with an acronym; C is for challenging We all agreed that nucleargraduates is a [...]
Lego, Annual Conference and Gangsters - February 11, 2013
Well we are now entering beginning of December 2012 and have completed my first STEM event. STEM is where we go into schools to teach them about science and engineering in a fun and exciting way, either by workshops, events or setting up a science club. My event was to talk about the wonders of [...]
