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Should communities be expected to help in death, dying and bereavement?
Health, Sports & Psychology

Should communities be expected to help in death, dying and bereavement?

...family and community members who are experiencing death, dying and loss. The evidence suggests that empowering people to ‘confront’ their own mortality is important both personally and in terms of enabling a willingness and capacity to help others. I know when people know that I am dying, they cross the road when they see me coming. I wish they wouldn’t. I know why...
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Legacy of the Romantics
History & The Arts

Legacy of the Romantics

...family groups, dressed as young adults; but the Romantic approach was to depict them as real children, and to encourage society to be more child-centred. Romanticism influenced political ideology, inviting engagement with the cause of the poor and oppressed and with ideals of social emancipation and progress. The individual was prized, but it was also felt that people...
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How gender equality can help fix the construction industry
Society, Politics & Law

How gender equality can help fix the construction industry

...family, women engineers and architects are already being paid less than their male counterparts. The lack of career progression that this suggests increases with age, with the number of women in senior positions dwindling to a minuscule proportion. With such inequality of pay, matched by inequality of treatment, it is no wonder they don’t stay. Bad for women, bad for...
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Remembering Peter and John
Society, Politics & Law

Remembering Peter and John

...family. Eric Wade, taught and directed numerous residential (summer) schools as a friend and academic colleague of Peter. It was he who appointed him as one of the first tutors at the OU. Eric fondly recalled Peter’s engagement with teaching and students. Tom Kinneavy did team teaching with Peter at these Schools. He saw: Peter's professionalism, his experience, his...
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Banking crimes without end
Society, Politics & Law

Banking crimes without end

...families, employees and employers, lenders and borrowers, and central and local Government – that is, everyone. None of which is yet to mention the biggest crimes of all, emerging during 2007 and culminating in the financial crisis. In the UK, the response to a crisis precipitated by long term and systematic fraud and theft was a rescue of private capital from the...
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Why sportspeople convicted of violence against women forfeit their right to be 'stars'
Society, Politics & Law

Why sportspeople convicted of violence against women forfeit their right to be 'stars'

...families with a history of domestic violence – showing that there is a widespread acceptance of the serious implications of domestic violence. But at the same time, while everyone seems to believe the general principle that violence against women is wrong, public perceptions suggest that they all too often let celebrities off the hook. Should we give celebrities...
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Ageing Well Collection
Health, Sports & Psychology

Ageing Well Collection

...family and friends, and rarely feeling lonely, are all associated with slower cognitive decline. Explore the free resources below for inspiration. We all need social connection to thrive throughout our life but are you getting enough social contact? Check out the link below, ‘My Social Diary’, to take a look at your social habits and what you can do to improve your...
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Feeling Stuck in your Job or Career? The ACT Matrix may be the Tool you Need
Health, Sports & Psychology

Feeling Stuck in your Job or Career? The ACT Matrix may be the Tool you Need

...family or caring commitments) or feel boring or ‘not right’ anymore. It may also feel like you have achieved all your work goals but are still unfulfilled. You are stuck: the normal way of doing your job isn’t working anymore, or you cannot get that next promotion. These situations then often lead to feelings of worry, stress and anxiety, and even hopelessness and...
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