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My name is Azzura.

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I studied History and Politics,
and I graduated in 2019.

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My role as a Policy Lead at Full Fact is
a really varied and really exciting role.

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So, I lead a team of policy managers
who work day to day

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to try to make politics
a little bit more honest,

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and then we work to combat misinformation

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as well on a much bigger
and grander scale.

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There's so much
from the University of Warwick

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that I still use every day
in my working world, basic people

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skills, learning to operate
in a political environment,

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but actually, I think the thing that
I've really taken from my degree

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is some of the critical
thinking skills that I've used.

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So and something I'm doing now in my job,

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at Full Fact is actually influencing
government policy on critical thinking.

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So, making sure those skills are taught
from the earliest

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possible years of school to all the way
to how adults use critical thinking.

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It's something that I'm not only using,
but really working on actively day to day.

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Something that's really special
about my time at Warwick

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is the amount of people
I'm still in touch with.

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So, some of my closest friends,
my housemate is someone I met at Warwick,

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and actually, on a political sense
and through a working environment,

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so many people that I work with are
graduates of the University of Warwick

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that I didn't even know at the time

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and have since become either
good friends or really good contacts with.

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Doing that work now,
and I'm able to work with them as well.

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Yes, there's a lot of people still
in my network that I met many years ago.

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There so many opportunities
you can do outside of your course

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that really enrich your time here.

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So I was the president
of the Politics Society.

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I was part of the student newspaper,
the student radio,

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and those are really some of my
fondest memories of being at Warwick.

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It's where I have made
some of my closest friends, and

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I think it's probably
where I had the most growth at university.

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I was able to really learn
how to engage with people,

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how to feel like I was
making a difference, and how to really,

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respect deadlines in a way
that was so useful for me

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outside of my course as well.

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I arrived at the University of Warwick,

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definitely quite nervous, quite shy,

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and a bit unsure of what
I wanted out of my time at university.

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I was really excited to be here.

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I was really open to the opportunities,
but I didn't know what was coming,

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and the three years that I spent here
really allowed me to

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to learn and grow
and really to become a young woman,

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and a confidence that I had a bit
of a community going into the adult world,

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and I think that's the the best.

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and the most special part.

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Originally, I always thought I was going
to study at a London university.

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That was the image I had in my mind

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of what
my university experience would look like.

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I thought,

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big city, big university.
Very cosmopolitan,

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and when I came to visit the University
of Warwick campus and saw

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how the space was going to help me learn

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and how the space was going to help me transition.

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I was sold.

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I loved the campus and I really couldn't
have imagined my time anywhere else,

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and now living in London,

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seeing students walking around the city,
I think it's not Warwick.

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It's not Warwick.