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Catherine Wikholm
Catherine Wikholm @c_wikholm catherinewikholm.com/ Biography   Millions of people around the world meditate regularly but what does science say about the impact of meditation? In 2012 Dr Catherine Wikholm was based at the Department of Experimental Psychology, Oxford University, where she conducted research investigating the psychological effects of yoga and meditation on prisoners. The findings...
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Bruce Daisley
Bruce Daisley Twitter @brucedaisley Bruce Daisley is the author “The Joy of Work: 30 Ways to Fix Your Work Culture and Fall in Love with Your Job Again” which reached the no 1 position on the Sunday Times business bestseller list. It was the FT Book of the Month and has been translated now into...
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Kabantu
Kabantu @kabantumusic kabantu.com Biography   Hailing from Manchester and graduates from the Royal Northern College of Music (RNCM), Kabantu is an award-winning, five-piece music group. Kabantu means “of the people” stemming from the South African philosophy of Ubuntu - "I am what I am because of who we all are". This terrific young quintet brilliantly...
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Clara Gaggero Westaway
Clara Gaggero Westaway Special Projects @ClaraGaggero specialprojects.studio/ Like any great designer, if Clara has a superpower it would be her ability to see the world differently to the mainstream. Clara is an intrepid designer, inventor and creative director committed to enriching the lives of people through hopeful product innovation. The daughter of a mechanical engineer...
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Stephen Purvis
Stephen Purvis Policy North @sgpurvisesq policynorth.com/ Biography Stephen Purvis is a technologist, philanthropist, investor and Chairman of the North East’s only dedicated policy think tank Policy North. In his early career he was a frontline military pilot serving in operational theatres around the globe. After moving back to the North East, he founded a bespoke...
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Nick Littlehales
Nick Littlehales Superstar Sleep Guru @sportsleepcoach sportsleepcoach.com/ Biography Nick works with a collection of the biggest stars and teams in international sport all focussed on weaponising sleep as a critical competitive advantage as these athletes look to achieve the unending human goal of realising their peak performance. Nick has been redefining and innovating a new...
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Olivia Remes
Olivia Remes Anxiety Researcher @oliviaroxann Biography Olivia completed her Ph.D. at the University of Cambridge. Her research focuses on anxiety disorders and is using the European Prospective Investigation of Cancer study, one of the largest, European cohort studies looking at chronic diseases, mental health, and the way people live their lives. Her research has been...
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Stephen Westaby
Stephen Westaby Surgical Pioneer Biography Professor Stephen Westaby is one of the world's most prominent cardiac surgeons and author of Sunday Times bestseller 'Fragile Lives: A Heart Surgeon’s Stories of Life and Death on the Operating Table". During his incredible career, he's operated on over 11,000 patients, becoming one of the world's top and pioneering...
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Alfie Joey
Alfie Joey Breakfast Radio Personality @alfiejoey alfiejoey.co.uk Biography Alfie Joey is the host of the BBC Newcastle breakfast radio show. But wait, there's more: he's also a writer, comic, actor, impressionist. And an artist/cartoonist. In May 2017 the North East Art Collective in Newcastle presented a gallery wall of his #AlfArt work and he is...
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Andrew Szydlo
Andrew Szydlo Performance Chemist linkedin.com/in/andrew-szydlo Biography Andrew Z. Szydło is an internationally acclaimed chemistry teacher. But he's definitely not the typical chemistry teacher you would expect... He holds a PhD in the History and Philosophy of Science from UCL, and is an expert on the history of alchemy (his 1994 book 'Water Which Does Not...
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