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Key Ideas in Therapy
Health, Sports & Psychology

Key Ideas in Therapy

...researchers stressed the importance of looking beyond the individual - to their relationships and to the wider social systems they live in. The ‘systemic view’ is interested in how these factors impact on individual well-being and distress. This film tells the story of the development of systemic ideas and provide an understanding of how the client context is of value...
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How can I support bereaved neurodivergent children?
Health, Sports & Psychology

How can I support bereaved neurodivergent children?

...researched, there is evidence that neurodivergent people may experience grief, as well as the social practices around death and bereavement, differently from others. This is thought to be related to their neurodivergence – in the differences in how their brains process information, including the environment around them, social interactions, and their own emotions....
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What is COVID-19?
Science, Maths & Technology

What is COVID-19?

...researchers at the University of California in Los Angeles found that under optimal conditions the virus may survive for up to 24 hours on cardboard surfaces and perhaps as long as 72 hours on plastic or stainless steel. Viruses, unlike bacteria, are unable to multiply in the environment, and further work is required to elucidate the infective potential of virus particles...
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Fair shares? Why sharing needs a democratic revolution
Society, Politics & Law

Fair shares? Why sharing needs a democratic revolution

...Research I’ve conducted with colleagues at the Open University and the University of Leeds shows how platforms can work. But they also face the challenge of maintaining their democratic nature and not becoming centralised and more commerically-driven. For-profit democratic sharing economy platforms are very few and far between (we couldn’t identify any successful...
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Have we got Wonga wrong? A defence of payday loans
Money & Business

Have we got Wonga wrong? A defence of payday loans

...Research, UK payday loan borrowers are most likely to be young adults with below average incomes, using payday loans with more savvy than is popularly depicted. In the UK, 67% have a household income of below £25,000 compared to the US where it is closer to 75%. Moreover, while payday borrowers in the US tend to be adults without bank accounts and with poor,...
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Information blackout at the Council of Europe?
Nature & Environment

Information blackout at the Council of Europe?

...researchers for a single week only in May 2016). This reality was originally announced in 2014 owing to “temporary reduction in staff”, “valid until a return to full service is possible”. However, as with so many troubling developments, this quickly became permanent, with a bland statement on the website now stating that the “Information Life Cycle Division...
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How the ZX Spectrum and ZX81 shaped Frank Sidebottom
History & The Arts

How the ZX Spectrum and ZX81 shaped Frank Sidebottom

...Research Ltd. Their ZX81 was a silent, black-and-white machine. Just £70 when launched in 1981, 1.5m were sold, despite their meagre 1KB of default memory. But it was Sinclair’s follow-up computer, the Sinclair ZX Spectrum, that really made a splash. Launched 35 years ago, the company’s first colour micro eventually sold over 5m units worldwide. The rise of the...
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Using sources: Considering breadth as well as depth
Education & Development

Using sources: Considering breadth as well as depth

...research a part of your assignment so here again is an opportunity to think more expansively about your sources and how they can help bring to life your writing. Linking explicitly to a video or audio that you have recorded may not be technically possible within the assignment marking process, however you could take the opportunity to provide short but pithy extracts from...
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Article 10 mins