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Nov 1, 2024 | 
thehoya.com | Ellie Ward
Two Georgetown University professors discussed their writings on disability studies at an Oct. 23 event.
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Oct 18, 2024 | 
themirror.com | Ellie Ward |Ellie Hook |Amelia Ward
A woman who had a brief encounter with the late One Direction star, Liam Payne, was taken aback when he confessed that being in a boyband had left him "f---ed up". The 31-year-old father of one was staying at a luxury hotel in Buenos Aires, Argentina when he tragically fell from his third-floor balcony.
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Oct 17, 2024 | 
thehoya.com | Ellie Ward
John Klein, Senior Fellow and Strategist at Falcon Research, Inc. and retired Commander and Naval Flight Officer in the U.S. Navy, spoke with Georgetown students about the growing importance of space power, security and strategy, the topics of his newly released book “Space Warfare: Strategy, Principles, and Policy,” on Oct. 8.
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Oct 4, 2024 | 
thehoya.com | Ellie Ward
Legal and medical experts weighed in on the ramifications of Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization (Dobbs), a Supreme Court case that revoked the constitutional right to abortion, and on reproductive health and justice in the United States at a panel event held by the O’Neill Institute at Georgetown University Law Center on Sept. 25.
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Aug 15, 2024 | 
interaction.org | Ellen Bevier |Ashley Johnson |Ellie Ward
Three years on from the Taliban takeover of Afghanistan, the humanitarian situation has deteriorated significantly, leaving over in need of shelter, healthcare, education, and livelihoods. Non-governmental organizations (NGOs) continue to provide lifesaving support to Afghans across the country despite an increasingly challenging operational environment and decreased funding from donors.
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Apr 3, 2024 | 
westendbestfriend.co.uk | Ellie Ward
Rough day at the office? Odd Jobs is collection of short plays which examine our relationship with the world of work. Produced by Elegy and written and directed by Madison Gerringer, it is a smart, incisive and absurd piece of theatre, sure to make audiences laugh and think in equal measure. As its form as a series of short plays suggests, there is no linear plot. Each short play is about different characters in ludicrous positions, all pertaining to their various jobs.
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Mar 8, 2024 | 
pioneerspost.com | Julie Pybus |Estelle Uba |Ellie Ward
Today, on International Women’s Day, The Women’s Organisation has gone silent. The UK social enterprise, which supports women’s economic development, argues that International Women’s Day has been hijacked by public bodies and companies that are only virtue signalling, rather than taking proper action to create a more equal, prosperous, safe and inclusive world for women. The Women’s Organisation’s website is filled with grim facts and figures about why some women have #NothingToCelebrate.
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Feb 29, 2024 | 
pioneerspost.com | Julie Pybus |Ellie Ward
Dai Powell, one of the pioneers of social enterprise and social investment in the UK, and former CEO of HCT Group, died earlier this month. In a tribute, Peter Holbrook, CEO of Social Enterprise UK, called him an “icon and founding father of modern social enterprise”. Powell was a firm believer in the power of social enterprise to create positive change. When he retired in 2020, he said: “I still believe today what I believed nearly 30 years ago.
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Jan 11, 2024 | 
pioneerspost.com | Estelle Uba |Ellie Grant |Ellie Ward
Professor Muhammad Yunus, Nobel prize-winning microcredit pioneer and founder of Grameen Bank, has been granted a month’s bail pending appeal, after he was convicted of violating Bangladesh’s labour laws and sentenced to six months in jail on 1 January. Yunus and three other executives from Grameen Telecom, a social enterprise Yunus founded in the 90s, had been on trial since 22 August 2023.
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Jan 3, 2024 | 
westendbestfriend.co.uk | Ellie Ward
Drop Dead had its original run in Edinburgh last summer. It’s run at the Drayton Arms is, in contrast, in January. It’s a dark and morose month anyway, and as the audience enter the black box space to be immediately greeted by a large, strikingly lit coffin, it could feel a disconcerting start to the year in theatre, but this piece is anything but depressing and, certainly, anything but dead.
