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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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
The hostile environment for immigrants is drawn from a well of taken-for-granted assumptions
Society, Politics & Law

The hostile environment for immigrants is drawn from a well of taken-for-granted assumptions

...educated at a private Roman Catholic School for Girls before graduating from Oxford. She then worked at the Bank of England. Amber Rudd, her successor at the Home Office, is the daughter of a stockbroker who was educated at the private Cheltenham Ladies College, before graduating from Edinburgh University. Before becoming an MP she worked for JP Morgan. Whilst her...
Disseminating across the margins: bridging communities and academia through a Black feminist lens
Education & Development

Disseminating across the margins: bridging communities and academia through a Black feminist lens

...education, health and social care services provides me with a unique perspective that is deeply personal and rich with insight. Yet, as a member of the academic community, I am also part of a system that has historically marginalised voices like mine. My current research project, titled ‘Mothering at the Margins’, has been designed with another researcher who is also...
African and Caribbean coaches in international football: is there enough progress?
Health, Sports & Psychology

African and Caribbean coaches in international football: is there enough progress?

...Education Leaders' Knowledge Exchange Programme, which was aimed at implementing best practices across English-speaking Concacaf member associations. The Concacaf Coaching Convention, initially launched in March 2022, serves as the primary regulatory framework for standardising and raising the quality of coach education across its 41 Member Associations. This has led to...