Our blogs
Read blogs written by our teaching staff on topics and events they're interested in, or by students who journaled down a specific topic during their learning. You can also find blogs written by our staff to help you prepare your applications for a programme.
Sensory play and collaborative workshops for SEN children's wellbeing
Story of a sweet penguin as seen in Worcester City Centre reveals a unique research journey behind Mark's dissertation.
Writing on Resilience, Positive Psychology and Empathic Leadership
CLL Coaching alumni Bob, Sarah and Tom collaborated with their tutor Carolyn on their series of books.
Have Coaches Forgotten about Congruence?
You are congruent when you are aware of your own feelings and ensure that words and actions are matched to these internal feelings. But has the origins of congruence and the importance in coaching been lost, and replaced by the need to enable the client to self-direct a coaching session?
Coaching Presence and Use of Self
Use of self and coaching presence are terms often used by coaches, coaching authors, and coaching professional bodies, but what do these this mean? How do I ‘use myself’ and what is my ‘presence’? Is my ‘presence’, the same as being ‘present’?
Overcoming Imposter Syndrome: The Power of Coaching
Hear from Ian Day about his reflection on Imposter Syndrome and how Coaching can play a role in overcoming it.
I can still recall the feeling of being totally out of my depth when the first client came through the door
Meet our new Assistant Professor in Careers Studies and Coaching courses, Lynne Campbell, who is revisiting her feelings from 23 years ago when she first started her career, as she now shifts her working identity to a career in academia.
Student support for adult learners
Elaine Moore, Welfare Officer from the CLL Student Support team, unpacks an extensive list of tips and resources for lifelong learners.
My lived experiences of learning, teaching, and counselling across borders
Dr Sonia Gallucci recently joined Warwick Counselling teaching team from Italy. Hear from Sonia what her background is and why she chose to teach here.
Your role in working with children
Hear from Assistant Professor Rachel Strisino about the reasons to study towards a degree in Early Childhood.
Perks of being a student ambassador
Hear from Jon about his experience of being a long-standing student ambassador at CLL.
Unleashing the Power of Team Coaching: Ignite Collaboration and Success
Hear from our Coaching course lead Ian Day about team coaching - what are the benefits, and the skills required from the team coach.
Application Tips for our Part-time Undergraduate courses
Read out guidance on how to make an application to study a part-time degree in Social Studies, Counselling, History, Classics, French and more.
Start the year with a new direction? Read our guide to lifelong learning in 2023
In this blog, we debunk some of the common mysteries we hear about lifelong learning, and share some resources for you to start considering learning in the new year.
Essential tips from CLL alumni
We have asked our very own alumni to pass on some wisdom. Here is what Clare Burrows, alumna from Early Childhood said.
World Social Work Day 2022 ‘Co-building a New Eco-Social World: Leaving No One Behind’
Hear from Jim, Senior Teaching Fellow in Social Work talking about the role of Social Work in battling global crisis in an interconnected world.
International Women’s Day 2022: Imagine a gender equal world
Nalita James, Director of Academic Studies at the Centre, looks at what gender (in)equality looks like in relation to the current world where Ukraine is pushed to the centre of war and conflicts.
The Metaverse and coaching
Facebook has recently renamed as Meta, as the internet moves towards the ‘Metaverse’. But what is the Metaverse and what are implications for coaching?
The Great Resignation
What is the role of Coaching during the great resignation?
Re-imagining Lifelong Learning in Higher Education
Hear from Dr Nalita James about her keynote speech in 2921 European Continuing Education Network Forum.
The Future of Coaching
We look at the history of Coaching in order to imagine its future.
Unless you do set homework, your data isn’t going to show what you need it to show
A mixed methods study from Lisa Lane, a final year student on BA Early Childhood, exploring teachers’ perceptions and experiences of homework for children aged 4-11 years in one primary school in the West Midlands.
Lifelong Learning and Me: Panel Event
Hear from Charlotte Jones, Director of Early Childhood programmes at Warwick about her reflection on play, drama and life in her recent teaching and student support experiences.
Delight in the dreaded dissertation
“You’re still doing that dissertation?!”
Nurturing an anti-racist baby
How we can approach this in Early Childhood, according to course teaching fellow Maggie Crowly.
Safety, play and learning in the Early Years
Working with children, how do we ensure that children are enabled to understand a potential source of harm, a hazard and a risk, where the outcome of an action may have an adverse outcome? Hear from teaching fellow Rachel Strisino.
Researching the factors influencing the provision of care services to palliative patients and their families
We caught up with Michael Adcock, a full-time social studies students, to hear more about his choice of dissertation topic.
The interdisciplinary working of the Early Childhood programmes
Here, Charlie Howland, a current BA in Early Childhood student, writes a reflection on the ability of the course to support and promote interdisciplinary working.
Does imposter syndrome ever go away?
Social Studies alumna Jules Sparkle talks to us about her imposter syndrome, Jeff, while she was doing her MSc in Applied Positive Psychology and Coaching Psychology in University of East London.
World Social Work Day 2021
Ubuntu: I am because we are.
Dialogue and the art of listening
How does Coaching approach the art of listening?
You are never too old to study
Age is no barrier as Graham started his degree in Social Studies at Warwick at the age of 62.
Wish to read more student blogs? See what our students have been writing at Warwick's unique student blogs platform: OurWarwick.