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Podcast with Brigadier Sara Sharkey (Head Application Services and DevOps at Defence Digital)

October 14, 2020October 11, 2020

On 25 September 2020, the Wavell Room interviewed Brigadier Sara Sharkey (Head Application Services and DevOps at Defence Digital) who talked to us about her...

Flexible Working and Flexible Service – Turning Policy into Normality

Sqn Ldr Vikki MacBrayne BSc RAFSeptember 29, 2020September 27, 2020

by Sqn Ldr Vikki MacBrayne BSc RAFSeptember 29, 2020September 27, 20200443

How to embrace flexible working and benefit from the enforced changes that have been made due to Covid-19....

Let’s talk about sex.

KatieSeptember 13, 2020October 6, 2020

by KatieSeptember 13, 2020October 6, 20200354

There is a saying that ‘behind every great man is an even greater woman’, but who is behind every great woman? Recently, whilst researching Field...

#WavellReviews ‘Forewarned: Tales of a Woman at War …with the Military System. Cockups, Conspiracies & Misogyny in the British Army’ by Diane Allen

The Wavell Room TeamAugust 26, 2020August 16, 2020

by The Wavell Room TeamAugust 26, 2020August 16, 20200548

On reflection, this is actually a book that should be read by those serving; I found it both fascinating and frustrating but also strangely compelling...

Long Read Opinion People and Leadership

Diversity in the MOD: Poisoned Chalice or Golden Opportunity?

Rob SAugust 25, 2020August 24, 2020

by Rob SAugust 25, 2020August 24, 20200836

The Ministry of Defence has come a long way on diversity in a very short time. When I joined it as a young civil servant...

#WavellReviews When The Tempest Gathers by Andrew Milburn

Colonel Denis JamesAugust 12, 2020August 16, 2020

by Colonel Denis JamesAugust 12, 2020August 16, 20200711

This book should be taken as a serious work, and added to your ‘must have’ lists, to be read alongside McFate’s Goliath and Kilcullen’s The...

Second Order Sexism?

@Madvixen1983July 23, 2020July 19, 2020

by @Madvixen1983July 23, 2020July 19, 20200631

I have a confession. I tweet. A lot. I tweet about dogs. I tweet about baking. I tweet about Defence. Worst of all, in some people’s eyes, I do it from...

Podcast with Air Vice-Marshal Ian Gale MBE MBA MA, Assistant Chief of the Air Staff

July 14, 2020July 13, 2020

Air Vice-Marshal Ian Gale MBE, Assistant Chief of the Air Staff (ACAS) talks to the Wavell Room about leadership, what’s on his mind and answers...

Could Autonomous Systems Hold Rank?

Major Andy Bell RLCJuly 2, 2020June 27, 2020

by Major Andy Bell RLCJuly 2, 2020June 27, 20200870

If we look back 25 years, hardly anyone had a mobile phone and email was still a novelty. I am quite ready to believe that...

Long Read Opinion People and Leadership

The Defence Approach to Diversity

Andrew FoxJune 24, 2020June 23, 2020

by Andrew FoxJune 24, 2020June 23, 20200811

If Defence wants to improve diversity of thought, then race or gender based diversity targets; promotion systems; Command, Leadership and Management courses; and staff courses...