Tag: international-development-studies

• Lessons From My Graduate Year in the Netherlands as a non-EU: A Reflection on Resilience

  

  Resilience can form in the strangest places. It has blistered over the troubled spirits of men in the wilderness, illuminated minds in the darkest of caverns, and rooted itself in well-worn hearts beneath the cooling shade of trees. Across the heady halls of history the character-defining discrimen of resilience has touched thousands in scenes befitting…

  Sandesh Bartlett

  16th Apr 2025

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  broke, family, graduate-visa, hague, hardship, international-development-studies, job-hunt, lessons, life, mental-health, netherlands, resilience, sri lanka, student-life, wageningen, wageningen-university-research, work, writing, young-person-job-crisis

• Taking the Time: A reflection on my internship in Namibia

  “In Namibia you must take time.” Says Johannes. It hasn’t even been a week since I left the autumnal nip of Wageningen for the arid landscape of Tsumkwe, but I have somehow found myself chatting with two travelling electricians over a few shots of Jägermeister. Under a star speckled night sky a herd of elephants…

  Sandesh Bartlett

  16th Apr 2025

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  development, education, history, international-development-studies, ju-hoansi, ju-hoansi, kalahari, namibia, personal-development, sociology, sociology-of-development-and-change, sri lanka, teaching, travel, tsumkwe, wagenignen-university-research, wageningen