by Max Hope | Mar 8, 2022 | Blog
Max Hope and Sophie Christophy share an aspiration to radically change the education system, but the journeys that brought them together have been completely different. Max started out as a youth worker and spent a decade as a university academic, researcher and...
by Max Hope | Feb 10, 2022 | Blog
I usually write alone. By this, I mean that I am used to being the sole author of academic papers, blog posts, book chapters etc. I like writing alone. It means I have total control over what is said and how it is said. I take ownership of the argument and I get to...
by Max Hope | Jan 4, 2022 | Blog
I watch Queer Eye. Unashamedly. I love it. These five queer folk, travelling around the world, building connections and changing lives. I know that it’s Netflix and it’s commercial and it’s a very sell-able show, but it’s also really captivating. Watch it if you are...
by Max Hope | Oct 20, 2021 | Blog
Words are powerful. Words are, as Albus Dumbledore says, ‘our most inexhaustible source of magic’. And yet words are not always in written form. Words can be spoken, and some of the most notable changemakers use the power of the spoken word to great effect. Martin...
by Max Hope | Sep 28, 2021 | Blog
“There is no such thing as original thought.” That’s what I was told at University when I was 19 and trying to write essays. What my tutor told me – or at least, my interpretation of what they told me – was that I had to study what other people had said and I had to...
