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Life & Learning YesICan

A birthday reflection

By Laura Ritchie on Friday, November 18, 2022

I am 49 (well nearly – in a matter of hours) and I’d like to offer a short celebration and birthday reflection on being (you being you and me being me). I’ll avoid motivational treacle like: Surround yourself by people who lift you Celebrate the positive Be more Love yourself Shine! I am neither immune …

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Life & Learning YesICan

The little things

By Laura Ritchie on Monday, November 7, 2022

Sometimes the little things matter, and they either make or break a day. Today a little thing considered nothing by someone else: this pumpkin and its seeds, completely made my day. (3 min read) Every year at this time I realise how very much I like pumpkin seeds, for lots of reasons. They are yummy. …

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Life & Learning

You: The child, the goat, and now

By Laura Ritchie on Friday, October 28, 2022

(this was inspired by a post by Ben Wurdmuller that he shared as ‘a note on being alive’. I wrote if over a day and wasn’t sure if I would post it or not, but since he has comments off, and also keeps writing lovely encouraging posts about ‘get blogging!’ I thought I would… Although …

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Academic writing YesICan

Validation and Validity Research

By Laura Ritchie on Sunday, October 23, 2022

My latest research published in a special issue on Psychometrics and Psychological Assessment. You can download the full text HERE

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Life & Learning YesICan

Who are you? (asked a voice from the past)

By Laura Ritchie on Friday, September 2, 2022

Me? I work hard. I play hard. And I am pleased to be me. My 25th High School Reunion is in a month – I won’t be there as I live half a world away (literally) and that commute is just out of my price range. It doesn’t mean I don’t wish to be there. …

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Life & Learning

Three Good Things

By Laura Ritchie on Wednesday, June 29, 2022

Earlier this month I was in Los Angeles (to give a TEDx talk – more on that in another post!) and at the end of my trip, over the space of about 36 hours, the universe seemed to open up and good things happened. I had a wonderful trip: I had worked hard, prepared hard, …

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Life & Learning Performance

Rachmaninov Sonata

By Laura Ritchie on Thursday, June 16, 2022

This is the recording of Laura Ritchie and JP Ekins performing the Rachmaninov Sonata on 7 May 2022

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Ever wonder what if you could dance?

By Laura Ritchie on Sunday, April 24, 2022

This is a story of what the professor (aka ‘me’) does when the students are away … It’s been a long pandemic, and there’s been lots of time to think. I thought so much I wrote a book. -I like to challenge myself. Just before the pandemic hit in 2020 I had the privlidge of …

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Life & Learning Presentations YesICan

Performance Hack – Zoom trick & the Royal Welsh Conservatoire

By Laura Ritchie on Tuesday, March 1, 2022

This afternoon I was a guest speaker at the Royal Welsh College of Music and Drama, speaking to the string students about performance. I was actually a virtual speaker, which is more and more common these days, and I prepared a lovley powerpoint but zoom (and teams) have this annoying thing when you share screen. …

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Life & Learning

Travel Jenga and the Luggage Lag

By Laura Ritchie on Thursday, February 17, 2022

Yesterday was a long travel day. Actually I’m not sure it still isn’t yesterday – or maybe I skipped forward to tomorrow? Either way I seem to have missed out on a night somewhere. (a voice in my head tells me this is called ‘jet lag’) Let me tell you the story and what I …

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