Martha Pollard

Alt text: A job advertisement for a dietitian position in community programs in Inuvik, Northwest Territories. The top half shows an Inukshuk with a scenic sunset background of water and mountains. The bottom half features a person sitting on a cliff overlooking a vast landscape with water bodies and trees. Overlaid text reads: "NOW HIRING: DIETITIAN, COMMUNITY PROGRAMS - NORTH (INUVIK, NORTHWEST TERRITORIES)." The bottom right corner displays the "PracticeNWT" logo.

We are now hiring for a Dietitian, Community Programs in Inuvik, Northwest Territories! Salaries up to 126.8k plus $36.7k - $37.9k in paid benefits in the first year, as well as comprehensive health & dental, defined benefit pension and relocation assistance are provided.
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This quote underscores the urgency and importance of the WATCH project’s mission: to break down barriers and create best practice guidance for inclusive vaccine trials in care homes.

🔍 Learn more about how we’re tackling this challenge.

Head and shoulders photo of middle-aged woman with chin-length light hair, pale freckled skin, slightly smiling. There are bookshelves behind her and stained glass windows visible beside her desk.

A welcome chance to have studying time in one of my favourite libraries today. Buzz of Edinburgh festival just outside, ordered loveliness of books inside. What are some of your favourite go-to spaces? #NewCollege #UniversityofEdinburgh

Perhaps you are a current or past researcher and you have asked such questions of yourself, too. Come and explore these questions with us this afternoon!

Looking forward to it!

Marseille view as the heat begins to ease #france #marseille #midsummer #sunset

Research Fellow: Theology, Mental Health and Dementia Join the University of Aberdeen as a Postdoctoral Research Fellow in Practical Theology, exploring dementia & mental health across cultures. Apply by 2 June.

Join the University of Aberdeen as a Postdoctoral Research Fellow in Practical Theology, exploring dementia & mental health across cultures. Apply by 2 June 2025. Closing date: 2nd June

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An image of a poster for an onlinevents seminar is shown. The title is on the left, in white writing on a blue background, which reads 'Common Humanity & Community Solidarity: Freedom & Caring Research Insights.' There is a yellow banner at the bottom left that says 'Fri, 25 Jul 2025, 17.00-18.00 BST. In the middle, there is the Therapy and Social Change logo, which is a circle of interlinking hands of many skin colours. On the right is a photo of the seminar speaker. She has blonde shoulder length hair and pale skin, and she is wearing glasses and smiling. The collar of her green sweater can be seen in the photo too. The caption underneath the photo, printed in black on a yellow background, reads 'TaSC Seminar with Martha Pollard.'

What a privilege it has been to learn from the insights of family carers & care staff in my research on freedom. Join us to reflect together on ways to connect to strengthen common humanity & community solidarity to benefit everyone.

Tickets are free and I've put the seminar link in the comments 😊

Mindfulness and Dementia A blog on World Mental Health Day 2024 for people living with dementia, unpaid carers, and care professionals. Written in collaboration with Martha Pollard, researcher, compassion-focussed counsellor ...

This #MentalHealthAwarenessWeek, we’re re-sharing our blog on how mindfulness can support people living with dementia and unpaid carers.💙

Written in collaboration with Martha Pollard at @slantinglight.bsky.social - read the blog here:

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#mindfulness #dementia

Great to have had the chance to collaborate on the blog and to be able to share it again this week. Mindfulness and (self)compassion can be so beneficial for us in anything we may be experiencing 😌 #community #wellbeing #commonhumanity #solidarity #listening #being #creativity

Great to have had the chance to collaborate on the blog and to be able to share it again this week 😌 #community #wellbeing #commonhumanity #solidarity #listening #being #creativity

An Edinburgh Waverley day today #trains #meetings #Scotland #scenery

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Insightful question, I wonder if it depends on context? One nurse might describe what they do as a calling, while another might not ever use that term--so it might overstep a line to tell someone their job is a calling, if that's not how they experience it, & vice-versa?

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Our next Coffee Conversations event will look at Dementia and Sensory Loss. We will be joined by Dr Amy White from
@alliancescot.bsky.social and unpaid carer Myra Lamont.

Let’s talk, learn and support each other! ☕️

Find out more and sign up: agescotland.org.uk/information-...

Registrations open for Community Led Support spring festival - NDTi Free series of online webinars, 22-23 May 2025. Hear about a range of tools, approaches and research on strengths-based practice.

Join the Community Led Support Annual Spring Festival on 22 & 23 May.

If you're new to CLS, join the opening session that will explain what CLS is & how it works in practice on 22 May at 9.30am.

Register your interest for this free webinar: www.ndti.org.uk/news/registr...

The Listening Lodge | Martha Pollard | Substack Exploring listening, compassion, humanity, poetry and my sense of unknowingness. Click to read The Listening Lodge, by Martha Pollard, a Substack publication. Launched a year ago.

Listening brings me alive. When someone really listens to you, how does that feel? I love exploring listening-type questions, and I write 'The Listening Lodge' newsletter over on Substack -- do check it out if you like, I would love to hear your thoughts 😊

Good luck, Kirsty, well done! 😊

Careers Toolkit | Scottish Social Services Council Careers Toolkit. Welcome to the Scottish Social Services Council Learning Resources - preparing you for a career in Scotland's social service.

Interested in a career in #socialcare? Have a look, please share with friends, family & people you work with!
#futureofcare

www.careersincare.scot/sccot/

One of headiest scents in the garden, especially first thing in the morning - honeysuckle 🌱Flowering now, it’s a joy, a glimmer ✨Glimmers are the opposite of triggers. Looking out for glimmers during your day is a mindful way to cultivate gratitude and therefore, joy. #bloomscrolling #gardening

Sounds v interesting, potentially helpful I think?

Strengthening Applied Dementia Research – Insights & Next Steps Join us for a livestream discussion with Dr Sarah Fearn and Professor Cathy Murphy, authors of a new NIHR ARC Wessex report on career development in applied dementia research. They will share their ke...

📢 Join us tomorrow - 24 April at 12pm BST for a livestream exploring career pathways in applied #DementiaResearch and the latest findings of a new report 'Building Careers in Applied Dementia Research'📊🎓

🔗 Set a reminder & watch on YouTube
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This image is the text of the poem 'The Word', by Tony Hoagland. Down near the bottom of the crossed-out list of things you have to do today, between “green thread” and “broccoli” you find that you have penciled “sunlight.” Resting on the page, the word is as beautiful, it touches you as if you had a friend and sunlight were a present he had sent you from some place distant as this morning—to cheer you up, and to remind you that, among your duties, pleasure is a thing, that also needs accomplishing Do you remember? that time and light are kinds of love, and love is no less practical than a coffee grinder or a safe spare tire? Tomorrow you may be utterly without a clue but today you get a telegram, from the heart in exile proclaiming that the kingdom still exists, the king and queen alive, still speaking to their children, —to any one among them who can find the time, to sit out in the sun and listen.

This image is of the front cover of the book 'The Emergency Poet: An Anti-Stress Poetry Anthology', edited by Deborah Alma. The cover is a drawing, with two purple clouds at the top, and a white circle in the middle of the cover that contains the title of the book. At the bottom of the cover is a blue road surrounded by blue and purple curly waves, leading the eye to the horizon that intersects with the white circle in the middle.

Such a life-giving anthology (thank you, Deborah Alma)
I especially love this poem, 'The Word,' by Tony Hoagland, which re-connects me with myself. What are your own ways of connecting with what is life-giving and full of meaning for you?

#poetry #meaning #words #feeling

Great things seem rare sometimes and yesterday I feel like I found one in the Anna platform for small businesses. I will be learning more as I start using it (for my counselling work). Have others already been using it? If so how are you finding it? anna.money/business-acc...

And thank you, that is so moving to hear 🥹