As a final year PhD student I was successful in securing places at two separate international conferences to present my […]
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Paris, the city of the Front Populaire
Thanks to the Principal´s Go Abroad Fund I was able to travel to Paris and meet professors related to my […]
Volunteering with HelpRefugees in France
Using the GoAbroad Fund, I traveled to Calais in Northern France to volunteer with HelpRefugees, an organization that provides migrants […]
Volunteering in ‘The New Jungle’, Calais.
Awareness of refugees and asylum seekers (R&AS) has always been present in my mind, with several family members having been […]
A month at ESITC Caen – Sustainable Building Workshop, June 2018
This summer, I spent the month of June in Normandy, France, to attend an engineering workshop about sustainable building at […]
First impressions, by Lily Settari
So here I am, almost two weeks after I headed off to France, trying to put my first impressions into […]
Finding the true meaning of ‘joie du vivre’ in Montpellier
Why on earth would I want to spend my third year abroad in France. For the sun? For the Mediterranean […]
Cultural Immersion – Grenoble, France
There is a common held theory amongst anthropologists that one must immerse oneself in another culture to truly be able to […]
Looking forward to a year in Grenoble, France
To me, spending a year abroad is exactly what it means to ‘make most of your time at university’, and […]
