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Exploring how migration changes the places where we live
Society, Politics & Law

Exploring how migration changes the places where we live

...history and storytelling could support us to better understand the way that migration shapes and makes our communities and places. That is why in a research project on ‘Migration Making Places, Making People: New Narratives of Inclusion’ together with the University of Oxford, we have worked with the Migration Museum Project and Counterpoints Arts, through to civil...
Time to look again at HIV and relationships
Health, Sports & Psychology

Time to look again at HIV and relationships

...families and friends about their different statuses and worry about what people might think. These experiences show how HIV stigma continues to shape the participants’ relationships, even if day-to-day they felt the virus has no impact. [Screenshot from Time to look at HIV and relationships animation] More positively, some participants use their relationships as an...
The importance of person-centred approaches to nursing care
Health, Sports & Psychology

The importance of person-centred approaches to nursing care

...families, the relationships forged with nurses and other carers are central to the quality of their healthcare experience. The quality of these relationships is singled out in patient satisfaction surveys as being of particular importance. To engage successfully with their patients, nurses need to listen carefully, and to get to know their patients as people. Getting to...
What have big meals got to do with Christmas?
History & The Arts

What have big meals got to do with Christmas?

...family gatherings can exacerbate tensions and even animosities. It is not only that gift giving can become competitive or that it can result in disappointment for those who get new mittens instead of a new TV. It is more that some people think that Christmas feasting is a distraction from the “glad tidings” they associate with Jesus’ birth. Some of these people...
Ageing, health inequalities and person-centred care
Health, Sports & Psychology

Ageing, health inequalities and person-centred care

...family, friends or a health professional. For an older person and their friends or family, knowing where there might be difficulties in undertaking the 5 Pillars, means you are able to ask for the right kind of support to help you age as healthily as possible. For professionals, reflecting on and filling gaps in your current knowledge and practice in relation to health...
Was British business always planning for Brexit?
Money & Business

Was British business always planning for Brexit?

...History, as well as the images we associate with it, should not be underestimated here. While a British business tycoon will think of Ronald Kipling’s India when a deal in the subcontinent is proposed, pictures of Stalin’s communist regime will cloud their thinking over a similar proposal stemming from Hungary. A yet unanswered question is whether the distinct path...
There’s only one woman on the UK Brexit negotiating team – here’s why that matters
Society, Politics & Law

There’s only one woman on the UK Brexit negotiating team – here’s why that matters

...history, and make it impossible to stay in her partners’ household. The rules also make it harder for women to establish a right to reside if they combine domestic care for the elderly or disabled or being a single parent with part time work. Women and children are already overlooked, and are at significant risk of falling through the cracks in the new regime. Trade is...
Under the covers: The emerging critical sleep studies
History & The Arts

Under the covers: The emerging critical sleep studies

...history shows that, whereas literature’s preoccupation with sleep is certainly not new, the humanities have been slow to respond to it. Medical sleep research over the past sixty years has measured our sleep and sleeping habits in an attempt to decipher “the nature of sleep.” However, the inherent paradox of sleep science, as Greaney demonstrates, is that sleep...