Jul 04 2022 56 mins
This weeks guest is Prof Eleanor Shaw OBE Associate Principal ( Pro Vice Chancellor) at University of Strathclyde.
Eleanor explains she is left-handed and reflects on her early days at school being told to ‘sit on her left hand and write with her right hand’ and consequently ending up in a remedial class for spelling and writing because of the effect this was having on her brain. Despite this she ‘really enjoyed school’ but was unsure what career direction she was wanting to take. She remembers thinking she would like to be an ‘English teacher or even more boldly a writer’.
Eleanor tells us of how Glasgow and the universities have always acted as magnet to her throughout her life and career.
Now as the Associate Principal (Pro Vice Chancellor) at University of Strathclyde she says she wants to help encourage young people to ‘take ownership and agency of their lives’ and ‘not to be frightened of failure’.
Listen to more of Prof Eleanor Shaw OBE life and career stories on the I was gonnae podcast.