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How can the Hajj be made safer?
History & The Arts

How can the Hajj be made safer?

...public security control room at the 2009 Hajj] A large task: The public security control room at the 2009 Hajj Two crowds In a recent systematic review of computer models we drew upon the social identity approach, which suggests a distinction between physical crowds (where people are simply in one place) and psychological crowds (where people in a physical crowd share a...
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Budget 2017: Instant reactions
Money & Business

Budget 2017: Instant reactions

...Public Policy and Public Management, University of Birmingham Social care needs a big idea – long-term, carefully developed, cross-party – and today’s budget was never going to deliver on that. What it did deliver was £2 billion for the care sector – with half of this coming in 2017-18. That will come as a great relief to local authorities who manage desperately...
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What can Chinese students in Southampton teach us about going green?
Nature & Environment

What can Chinese students in Southampton teach us about going green?

...health, personal finances, the wellbeing of others, or the environment – and then hoping that enlightened citizens will do the rest. But this ‘ABC’ model of behaviour change (Attitudes->Behaviour->Change) model has come under criticism because, in reality, we often see a gap between what people think or say they should do, and what they actually do. This...
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Is ‘Barbenheimer’ going to save cinema?
History & The Arts

Is ‘Barbenheimer’ going to save cinema?

...public imagination in a big way. On platforms such as Twitter and Instagram, people have created visual jokes riffing on the contrasting aesthetics of Barbie’s bubblegum pink and Oppenheimer’s moody black. There have been numerous memes that play on the films’ up versus downbeat themes. And many brands – especially in the worlds of fashion and beauty – have made...
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What is trauma?
Society, Politics & Law

What is trauma?

...health and relationship formation. Social inequalities shape the level of exposure that different groups have to adverse experiences. Likewise, experiencing or witnessing interpersonal and institutional racism, harassment and discrimination can itself amount to ‘racial trauma’. A broader understanding of trauma is therefore needed, one which recognises ‘the...
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Yachts, planes and buses... Mind the (inequality) gap
Society, Politics & Law

Yachts, planes and buses... Mind the (inequality) gap

...publication of the latest Oxfam report on the extent of global inequality. The new 2016 report, An Economy for the 1%, was published to coincide with the latest World Economic Forum event in Davos, Switzerland. The report highlights that we live in a world of growing inequality: a deepening and widening gulf between the richest 1% and the rest of humanity. Oxfam calculate...
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Caring for an older family member with learning disabilities
Health, Sports & Psychology

Caring for an older family member with learning disabilities

...Health Research (NIHR) under its Health Services and Delivery Research Programme (NIHR129491). Interested in taking your learning further? You might find it helpful to explore the Open University’s Health and Social Care courses and qualifications....Session 1: Introduction: Introduction - We are all aware of improvements in the United Kingdom (UK) population’s life...
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A reader's guide to The Luzhin Defence
Health, Sports & Psychology

A reader's guide to The Luzhin Defence

...health...Our Book of the Month is The Luzhin Defence. Its author, Vladimir Nabokov, was born in St Petersburg in 1899. Later the family moved to Berlin, and Nabokov subsequently went on to study at Cambridge University. His father was murdered by a Russian monarchist in 1922. Back in Berlin after graduating, Nabokov worked as a translator, tutor, tennis coach, and...
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