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Candles and campfires: creativity and the menopause transition
Health, Sports & Psychology

Candles and campfires: creativity and the menopause transition

...Social Care courses and qualifications. I have been working in the realms of everyday community creativity and diversity for a while now. When I began to experience symptoms 16 years ago, I found myself needing new strategies and knowledge in order to improve my experience of daily life. At first it did not occur to me to connect my creative practice (largely singing)...
Not intervening as a form of care
Health, Sports & Psychology

Not intervening as a form of care

...work and spoke to patients and their loved ones. During these, we heard many conversations and deliberations about what kind of treatment could or should be provided. There were considerations about what people wanted for their own lives or those they cared about. For some, there was a delicate balance between providing treatment to possibly extend life and a focus on...
Roaring Twenties? Europe in the interwar period
History & The Arts

Roaring Twenties? Europe in the interwar period

...social impact of ‘working-class’ culture – but we mustn’t forget that within social classes, people like Mrs Skinner also had opinions about what was the proper way to live. Notions of respectability and appropriateness could cut across class boundaries, and they were often linked to opinions about which forms of popular culture were the most acceptable. Let’s...
Dumbarton Road, Partick, Glasgow: from tenements to riverside apartments
Society, Politics & Law

Dumbarton Road, Partick, Glasgow: from tenements to riverside apartments

...social history shaped by a ten-fold rise in population from 5,000 in 1850 to over 55,000 by 1901, and forward to the Glasgow Harbour regeneration scheme...Tenements, trams and towering cranes: the stories behind a Clydeside street Industrial expansion of the river city of Glasgow saw the diverse population housed in the city’s iconic tenements. High rise and new luxury...
Does the rural idyll really exist?
Nature & Environment

Does the rural idyll really exist?

...worked best economically, the ones without an industrial heritage. Then in 1973 even the industry went, the big wage packets, the good hedonistic working class lifestyle that had developed in Coventry was then destroyed or at least severely damaged. I’m not surprised that growing up in the period inspired you to write the sort of music that you did. Terry: So what...
The age of offence
Society, Politics & Law

The age of offence

...social media, the giving and taking of offence seems to have become an integral part of modern life. The news media regularly spark moral panics about the rise of a new McCarthyism, we’re told that universities are suffering from a crisis of academic freedom, politics has become an all-out struggle over competing claims of victimhood, and everywhere people seem to be...
Welfare, crime and society
Society, Politics & Law

Welfare, crime and society

...social justice, security and community. The tracks on this album explore how forms and practices of surveillance reveal the entanglements between welfare, crime and society and the tensions and overlaps between policies aimed at delivering social welfare and those intended to control crime. The material is drawn from the course DD208 Welfare, crime and society... Welfare,...
Caring for adults
Health, Sports & Psychology

Caring for adults

...work in a paid social care role, you are likely to have to maintain some kind of record or communicate with others in writing. These may be official or unofficial documents, but they need to be accurate, factual, clearly written and kept confidential if they contain personal information. If you work in a paid role, the organisation you work for will have policies in place...
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