‘This Is How It Feels’ – Personal reflections during Mental Health Awareness week

Chris Bayes This week marks Mental Health Awareness week.  As stated on the Mental Health Foundation’s website here, “The week will explore the experience of loneliness, its effect on our mental health and how we can all play a part in reducing loneliness in our communities.” Loneliness affects millions each year and is commonly recognisedContinue reading “‘This Is How It Feels’ – Personal reflections during Mental Health Awareness week”

‘’There’s nothing more dangerous to power than a working class person with a thirst for knowledge”

It was a very proud day for both myself and my family when I was accepted to study BSc (Hons) Public Sociology at Queen Margaret University in Musselburgh, which is located outside of Edinburgh. When I attended my first day, I was, I have to say, reminded of the theme tune from the tv sitcomContinue reading “‘’There’s nothing more dangerous to power than a working class person with a thirst for knowledge””