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Extending your learning with postgraduate skills
Education & Development

Extending your learning with postgraduate skills

...educational provision, or to related policy contexts. The benefits might be changes in thinking which can then drive changes in practice. This could be your practice if you work in one of these settings. It could be the practice of others, if you share what you are learning with professionals and volunteers in these settings, either in conversation or through more formal...
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Is being a student good for your mental health?
Health, Sports & Psychology

Is being a student good for your mental health?

...educational benefits that go with it. This vulnerability does not seem to be linked to the type of person who chooses to go to university as, in general, graduates enjoy better mental health than non-graduates (HEFCE, 2017). So it seems likely that there is something about the student experience that is destabilising for a significant number of individuals. Two recent...
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Boys will be boys?
Society, Politics & Law

Boys will be boys?

...educational under-achievement relative to girls, to an increasing growing awareness of the suicide rate and mental health problems among boys. Young men have tended to be characterised in media debate and public policy as ‘at risk’, in terms of their own physical and mental wellbeing, and as ‘risky’ in relation to others, in terms of youth crime and anti-social...
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Fracking: Is it possible to persuade the public that the benefits outweigh the risks
Nature & Environment

Fracking: Is it possible to persuade the public that the benefits outweigh the risks

...educate” the public it has actually generated further concern and public debate. A recent government survey suggested that this was particularly relevant to fracking. The study found that there was more opposition than support among those who know a lot about fracking (54% vs 32%), know a little about it (35% vs 27%), and those who are aware of it but don’t really...
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The Ageing Well Public Talks
Health, Sports & Psychology

The Ageing Well Public Talks

...educational intervention, based on The Five Pillars for Ageing Well, and tailored to inform and engage diverse communities. This is of particular significance in multicultural societies and for maintaining equality in the provision of opportunities to age well. AWPTS, as a novel educational intervention, is co-produced with and for the public and has become, over the...
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Young children and the climate crisis
Education & Development

Young children and the climate crisis

...education, it’s likely that at some point in your career you’ve grappled with recycling systems and had conversations about ‘saving the environment’. You may be making connections with nature by cultivating responsibility for a patch of woodland to ensure the next generation will care more about local wildlife than the current one. I’m an early years...
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Ambitions for Palliative and End of Life Care: making sense of a national framework for local action
Health, Sports & Psychology

Ambitions for Palliative and End of Life Care: making sense of a national framework for local action

...educating staff to larger re-designs of service provision to widen access, or even co-developing community action focused on promoting education and support amongst the population. Importantly for those we spoke to, implementation was not a one-off process but something that involved continuous service redesign, evaluation, and collaboration. The majority of the people we...
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A scenario on e-professionalism for nurses
Health, Sports & Psychology

A scenario on e-professionalism for nurses

...education’, in Dyson, S. and McCallister, M. (eds.) Routledge International Handbook of Nurse Education. UK: Routledge. Ryan, G.S. (2017a) Online social networks and the pre-registration student nurse: a focus on professional accountability. Available at: https://www.dora.dmu.ac.uk/handle/2086/16379 (Accessed: 22 July 2019). Ryan, G.S. (2017b) ‘What do nurses do in...
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