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Climate change: the kale smoothie of TV
Society, Politics & Law

Climate change: the kale smoothie of TV

...researchers should risk wasting some of their time by advising TV producers on long-shot prospects. They should be patient supporters of concepts for new shows or approaches. And of course viewers should risk wasting some of their time by actually watching them, and take a little more time to tell the media what they think. Have programmes changed their thinking or...
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Article 10 mins
The Ageing Well Public Talks
Health, Sports & Psychology

The Ageing Well Public Talks

...research and members of the public who have all contributed to the content as well as to the success of the series. The Series establishes Participatory Public Engagement as the main vehicle for delivery and impact. This resource brings and translates the evidence to the lay people and enables them to make lifestyle choices that can make them live longer and healthier...
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Article 15 mins
How can your accent put your life at risk?
Languages

How can your accent put your life at risk?

...researchers: And he said, ‘Oh, you know we see this, a lot of this Haitian chest pain.’ And I said, ‘What do you mean by that?’ And he said, ‘Well, they come in and the tests are negative, and they have a different perception of pain than other people.’ He kind of wrote it off that way. I felt a little weird that it was written off that quickly. To write off...
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So you've written your novel, what now?
History & The Arts

So you've written your novel, what now?

...Research agencies and make a targeted approach. Some agents have areas of expertise – they only represent children’s fiction, for example, or non-fiction. Some agents might have a broader remit but exclude certain genres such as, for example, science fiction. It’s obviously no good sending your epic fantasy trilogy to an agent who doesn’t represent science fiction...
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Article 5 mins
Trust in the Workplace
Health, Sports & Psychology

Trust in the Workplace

...research highlighted that many organisations were contemplating actions that would potentially impact their employees’ wellbeing, job security and uncertainty about the future. Also, freezes on recruitment in some industries have created a disconnection between job seekers expectations for employment and employment availability. The increased precarity of employment,...
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Drivers and hand-held mobile phones: extending the ban won’t solve the problem – here’s why
Health, Sports & Psychology

Drivers and hand-held mobile phones: extending the ban won’t solve the problem – here’s why

...research shows it is equally distracting. Currently, UK drivers using a hand-held mobile phone can only be prosecuted if it can be proven that they were using it for an ‘interactive communicative function’ such as calling or texting. The change in the law closes this loophole, and makes it easier for distracted drivers to be prosecuted, fined £200, and given six...
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Why friendships are vital to your wellbeing
Health, Sports & Psychology

Why friendships are vital to your wellbeing

...Research Online 16, 1, 15. www.socresonline.org.uk/16/1/15.html. Cacioppo, J., and Cacioppo, S. (2014) ‘Social Relationships and Health: The Toxic Effects of Perceived Social Isolation.’ Social and Personality Psychology Compass 8, 2, 58-72. Clift, S., and Morrison, I. (2011) ‘ Group singing fosters mental health and wellbeing: findings from the East Kent “singing...
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Selling Empire: Introduction
History & The Arts

Selling Empire: Introduction

...research, marketing and publicity. In reality, it spent as much money on research as publicity, but it was the latter which lodged in the public mind. In its six-year life, it unleashed millions of posters, from a few gigantic billboard features, such as Highways of Empire (shown above, 1927), through cheap, reduced-size copies sent to thousands of schools and sold to the...
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