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Effective writing in professional social work practice
Health, Sports & Psychology

Effective writing in professional social work practice

...accountable for their writing within a student role. Consequently, an important element of your learning will be how to write the documents required within your own practice setting. The service users you work with (such as children and families, adults with mental health needs or older people) and also the setting will all impact on the kinds of documents you will write...
Jim Skea - Stories of Change
Nature & Environment

Jim Skea - Stories of Change

...account of carbon pricing by proxy through other measures, you know, some level of subsidy for onshore wind would still be justified. And I think the question with onshore wind is the question of local acceptability, which is obviously a legitimate issue, but there’s a lot of diversity around the country for example, Scotland is ploughing its way through with you know...
Introducing Homer's Iliad
History & The Arts

Introducing Homer's Iliad

...account. First, this summary has been stitched together from a wide range of sources. Versions of the Troy story don’t just appear in Homer: we have other literary sources, including fragments of rival epic poems about the war (one called the Cypria narrated its beginning, another called the Sack of Troy its end); a poem about the origins of the cosmos under Zeus’...
Level 2: Intermediate 6 hrs
Exploring philosophy: faking nature
History & The Arts

Exploring philosophy: faking nature

...account other aspects of its story? So I think one thing that we're always going to have to keep in mind when it comes to restoration projects that deal with historically significant places is that history is ongoing. History is always marching forward and adding to the story of a particular space. So if we endeavour to restore a place to a particular historically...
Voices from the Global South: an international field trip
Society, Politics & Law

Voices from the Global South: an international field trip

...account by Ratuva: GN (former colonial powers) and GS (former colonised territories) but, as he says, not that simple; ‘nuanced and complex on the ground’ (at around 6 mins). Interesting account of how power works at such global meetings. Points made by Huq – ‘GN holds the power’ (6 mins 32 seconds). Not just inequalities of impact of climate crisis but...
Dallas Campbell meets Frank Drake
Science, Maths & Technology

Dallas Campbell meets Frank Drake

...account the transportation costs. There is enough energy coming from the sun but if you capture it all as in Dyson spheres it would support ten to the 22nd power human beings. So that is presently our population is about ten to the 10th human being. So this would be ten to the 12th. That’s a million million times, not a million million more people but a million million...
Science and society: A career and professional development course
Education & Development

Science and society: A career and professional development course

...account of these dimensions in science decision-making. Matthew came to the Royal Society following a two-year stint as a Research Fellow at the ESRC Genomics Research and Policy Forum, University of Edinburgh, leading a work package on social and ethical aspects of animal genomics. Before that, he completed a PhD at Cardiff University investigating the nature and role of...
‘Where do you really come from?’ How this enquiry can add insult to injury
Education & Development

‘Where do you really come from?’ How this enquiry can add insult to injury

...account of the way that people develop feelings. For many people of Black and minority ethnic origin in white-majority spaces, racial background has been used to highlight variation from the norm resulting in them having to navigate isolating, humiliating, ridiculing and demeaning circumstances over the breadth of a lifetime. Harrison & Tanner, (2018, p. 4) aptly use the...