CREATE AND INNOVATE

We`re thrilled to be back in Blaenau Gwent this week! 🎮

Yesterday we kicked off at Bryn Bach Primary School, delivering coding games workshops through Chaos Created`s Code Created initiative. We had an incredible day with their Year 5 and Year 6 groups, building on what we covered together last year, and this time creating a top-down dungeon crawler game with them from scratch.

It`s the first of many school visits this year as we continue our partnership with the BG STEM Project, bringing coding workshops to schools right across the region. The BG STEM Facilitation Project, funded by the Welsh Government`s Tech Valleys initiative, is doing brilliant work transforming STEM education across Blaenau Gwent, and we`re proud to be part of it.

What makes our workshops special is that we bring real, hands-on industry experience into the classroom. Whether a pupil dreams of being a programmer, artist, designer or games tester, they get a genuine taste of making something from scratch, and leave with a playable game they`ve built themselves.

Huge thanks to Hayley Boulton and the whole BG STEM team for having us back, and to everyone at Bryn Bach for such a warm welcome. Here`s to a wonderful year ahead.

Code Created delivers coding workshops to primary and secondary schools across the UK. To bring our workshops to your school, visit codecreated.com or get in touch.

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We`ve just recorded another episode of Difficult Conversations, the podcast series we`re producing for the University of Leicester`s I-REACCH project. That`s seven episodes recorded, with the first releasing on 1st October. 🎙️

This episode was recorded with Dr Cleo White, on empathic and inclusive research leadership.

Cleo has developed the CIRCLE Toolkit (Creating Inclusive Research Cultures through Leading with Empathy), built not for researchers but with them, shaped by listening to people`s real experiences of leadership at the university.

Through that work, Cleo noticed that when people talked about leadership, they didn`t mention policies or frameworks at all. They remembered the small moments: being interrupted, overlooked, not credited, or on the flip side, simply being asked how their morning had been. It`s the tiny everyday interactions, good and bad, that add up to whether someone feels they belong.

There was a lovely distinction, too, between kindness and empathy. Kindness matters, but empathy asks more of you: being curious about the other person, challenging your own assumptions, and sometimes having the difficult conversation rather than just being nice.

Another thoughtful, honest conversation, hosted by Kike Ladipo, PhD, SFHEA and Gez Williams, PhD.

Seven recorded, the series launching 1st October.

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We`re excited to be producing September`s Live Panel Webinar for Adaptive Fitness Training. Join us on 24th September at 7:30pm on YouTube Live.

This month`s guest is Rachel Rutley - a physiotherapist with almost 35 years of neurological experience, specialising in Parkinson`s for the past 14 years. She`s a clinical academic at Keele University, leads exercise classes for her local Parkinson`s group, and has completed research specifically into foot dystonia and its impact on gait. The combination of academic rigour and hands-on clinical practice makes for exactly the kind of guest our audience gets the most from - and she`ll be doing a live exercise demonstration on the night too.

Chaos Created produces the AFT webinar series end-to-end, and these sessions have built up a wonderful community over the past several months.

✅ Live on YouTube with real-time Q&A
✅ 0.5 CIMSPA CPD points
✅ Free to attend

Suitable for Personal Trainers, Exercise Referral Instructors, Physiotherapists, Occupational Therapists, Strength and Conditioning Coaches and Sports Therapists.

Register now: https://adaptivefitnesstraining.co.uk/event/aft-webinar-september-2026/

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We`ve just recorded another episode of Difficult Conversations, the podcast series we`re producing for the University of Leicester`s I-REACCH project. That`s six episodes now. 🎙️

This one takes on "publish or perish", the relentless pressure academics feel to keep publishing, with Dr Ruoying Zhou.

Ruoying talked about how we mostly see other people`s successes, the accepted papers, the funded grants, the promotions, while the setbacks stay hidden. Scroll any social platform and it`s all wins, so we end up comparing our own behind-the-scenes to everyone else`s highlight reel, and it`s easy to feel you`re falling behind. Her point that we need to normalise failure, and talk about the knock-backs as openly as the good news, is one that reaches far beyond academia.

Another honest, thoughtful conversation, hosted by Kike Ladipo, PhD, SFHEA and Gez Williams, PhD.

Six recorded, more on the way, and the series releasing later this year.

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