Lucy Gardiner

Nov 25, 2024 | hercampus.com | Lucy Gardiner

I travelled to Nice in September as a final relaxation trip before the new University semester (and now halfway through the semester I wish I could go back). Myself and my boyfriend flew from Aberdeen airport with a short layover in Amsterdam.

Oct 9, 2024 | hercampus.com | Lucy Gardiner

Adam Hayes describes consumerism as ‘the tendency of people living in a capitalist economy to engage in a lifestyle of excessive materialism that revolves around reflexive, wasteful, or conspicuous overconsumption.’ Hyper-consumerism, then, is this lifestyle exaggerated to a detrimental degree. This reflects the post-capitalist society many believe we are living in.

Jun 13, 2024 | err.ersjournals.com | Holly Drover |Lucy Gardiner |Sally J Singh |Rachael Evans

IntroductionPulmonary rehabilitation is an internationally recommended [1, 2] complex intervention for individuals living with chronic respiratory disease consisting of tailored exercise and education that has demonstrated improvements in health-related quality of life [3] and survival [4].

May 13, 2024 | hercampus.com | Lucy Gardiner

My 2023 Book rewind Every year I make a list of all the books I have read, rating them out of 5. Here is this year’s rewind with a review and rating of each one: Pride and Prejudice – Jane Austen 5/5 I started this year off with a classic. Pride and Prejudice is possibly Jane Austen’s most famous novel. Elizabeth Bennet is witty, sarcastic, and fun to read. She is not afraid to speak her mind, and for women in the 1800’s this was unheard of.

Mar 4, 2024 | hercampus.com | Lucy Gardiner

Quote-on-quote ‘weird’ books, although maybe not an official genre of literature, are some of the most immersive and substantial novels I have read. I find in a modern landscape – where it is almost impossible to have original thought and ideas are cyclical and oversaturated – I often wander into the weird to experience new and exciting ideas. Many casual readers are put off when they read a book’s blurb and are confronted with strange and off-putting, sometimes disturbing, content.