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Woman sitting on a bench writing in a notepad

Date: 03 March 2021 - 17:50

My feminist activism in Turkey

Fatmagül Berktay tells us how her work as a feminist researcher has helped to build the women’s movement in Turkey.

Tags: Women and girls, Gender equality

Date: 08 January 2020 - 13:09

What can you make with algae?

Algae: you can eat, wear and build with them, and they're renewable. Professor Berat Haznedaroğlu of Boğaziҫi University in Istanbul tells us about current algae research.

Tags: Science, Technology

'We developed a card game where you can match female and male figures doing the same profession.' Image (c) 27707,licensed under Creative Commons CC0 and adapted from the original

Date: 23 February 2017 - 21:00

How to approach teaching gender equality to boys and girls

Fatma Özdemir Uluç, who led a British Council-supported study into gender equality in Turkish schools, tells us how teachers can show children that boys and girls are equal.

Tags: Education, Women and girls, Teaching resources, Teaching

Classroom activity. Photo (c) Hayssam Moussawi.

Date: 21 July 2016 - 12:00

Can learning languages help refugees cope?

Marie Delaney, co-author of the British Council report 'Language for Resilience', explains how language learning has helped refugees cope with their situations.

Tags: English language, Educational research

Floor-heating systems that send hot air into a hollow space under the floor to heat a room or bath exist since Roman times. Watercolour by General Eduard von Kallee, 1884 (c) public domain, adapted from the original: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Rottenburg_Sumelocenna_by_Eduard_von_Kallee.jpg

Date: 14 September 2015 - 14:54

Eco houses are coming back after centuries

What makes a house eco-friendly and how has the technology changed over time? Dr Bilsay Pastakkaya, who received a British Council grant to work with fellow researchers in the UK, explains.

Tags: Architecture, Science, Scientific research, Arts

'Truth softens under the author’s magnification.' Photo (c) Sarah Murray, licensed under CC BY-SA 2.0 and adapted from the original.

Date: 18 August 2015 - 15:06

Field notes for a novel: Heybeliada, 2013

Read 'field notes' for Benjamin Wood's novel, The Ecliptic, along with a commentary by the author.

Tags: Literature, Arts

The space you work in directly affects your productivity and creativity. Photo (c) Nick Castonguay, licensed CC BY-NC-SA 2.0 under and adapted from the original.

Date: 15 December 2014 - 15:00

What kind of workspace do you need to be creative?

Kerem Alper, co-founder of Turkey’s first creative hub, explains what creative professionals need from their working space.

Tags: Arts, Creative Economy

Elif Shafak interview; photo by Chris Boland / www.chrisboland.com licensed under CC BY-NC-ND 2.0, adapted from the original.

Date: 19 November 2014 - 05:34

Elif Shafak: 'Writing in English brings me closer to Turkey'

Best-selling Turkish novelist Elif Shafak spoke to the British Council's Ted Hodgkinson about how her global perspective has influenced her hugely successful fiction.

Tags: Literature, Arts

Graduates in the fast-emerging economies of Eastern Europe and Central Asia are looking for more skills and opportunities. Photo of houses in Tirana by Lassi Kurkijärvi under Creative Commons licence.

Date: 05 November 2014 - 05:48

How do countries east of EU tackle youth unemployment?

How can countries in Southern and Eastern Europe and Central Asia – a region the British Council calls 'Wider Europe'– prepare their young populations to be successful?

Tags: Universities and higher education

'The flexibility of the language allows for many things to be expressed more concisely than English.' Photo (c) hijukal, licensed under CC BY-NC-SA 2.0 and adapted from the original.

Date: 12 September 2014 - 14:22

Turkish: A fascinating structure and huge influence

Literary translator John Angliss explains why the unusual structure of Turkish, and Turkey’s considerable regional influence, makes the language such a delight to learn.

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