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Demolishing Pasts, Uncertain Futures:The Symbolism of Glasgow’s Red Road Flats
Society, Politics & Law

Demolishing Pasts, Uncertain Futures:The Symbolism of Glasgow’s Red Road Flats

...working class Glaswegians have been subjected to large-scale displacement, often termed ‘decanting’, through slum clearance; huge numbers of people were moved across the city throughout the inter-war and post-war periods and – in increasing numbers after 1945 - beyond the city boundaries. Long established working class communities were broken-up, a shared sense of...
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Film and society
History & The Arts

Film and society

...working-class life in the North East while other groups appeared like The London Film-Makers Co-operative, as well as co-ops with more specific agendas, for example, the London Women’s Film Co-op and black and Asian workshops such as Sankofa. Many of these have disappeared but there still remains the Lux. Many mainstream directors emerged from these, and while some,...
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Is my child being exploited? How to spot the signs
Health, Sports & Psychology

Is my child being exploited? How to spot the signs

...work qualifications. Transcript Child criminal exploitation takes a variety of forms and there is confusion about what it encompasses – for instance, does it include children as well as young people? In short, it does, because in law children are defined as all those under 18 years of age. The concern about child criminal exploitation relates to those children who have...
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Approaching leadership with care
Health, Sports & Psychology

Approaching leadership with care

...work towards preventing such catastrophes. If, and when, they do occur a caring approach can also help to ensure that everyone learns from such events in order to avoid them happening again. This doesn’t just apply to health and social care settings though. Leadership in any context is enhanced by taking a caring approach towards the role and those for whom the leader...
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Level 2: Intermediate 5 hrs
Influence of temperament
Education & Development

Influence of temperament

...work outside the home. However, in addition they suggest that there could be two plausible routes whereby difficult temperament could influence mothers’ decisions on whether to work outside the home. The first could be that mothers find the problems of rearing the child with difficult temperament too aversive and therefore opt to go out to work to avoid the hassles of...
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Language and thought: introducing representation
History & The Arts

Language and thought: introducing representation

...work in this chapter, but has yet to be made explicit. It is a convention for marking the difference between using a word and mentioning it. Italy has a capital city, and the English language contains a word for that city, but the word and the city are distinct entities. When we are talking about the word rather than what the word is about, we are mentioning that word....
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Level 3: Advanced 20 hrs
World-Changing Women: Emily Davies
History & The Arts

World-Changing Women: Emily Davies

...working women and was prompted by this experience to found a branch of the Society for the Promotion of the Employment of Women in the North East. In 1862, after moving to London, Davies was able to pursue her developing interest in women’s rights. She helped put together the first women’s suffrage petition, presented to Parliament in 1866. Davies believed that...
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Research on young people with melanoma
Health, Sports & Psychology

Research on young people with melanoma

...working better together than apart. Further research is required to answer whether TYA diagnosed with melanoma are supported across the cancer trajectory in the UK. During Wendy McInally's PhD journey, she stumbled across the song Aspects by Paul Weller. The song is fitting for IPA (a branch of phenomenology seeking to capture the experiences of participants) and how we...
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