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Writing your proposal and preparing for your interview
Education & Development

Writing your proposal and preparing for your interview

...Careful preparation will give you the best chance in being successful. Preparing for your interview Read your proposal critically and look for potential challenges to your work. What limitations and challenges might the panel want you to discuss? Makes some notes on what these are and how you might respond to them. Ask a friend, colleague, or family member to read your...
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Commemorating Lord Byron on the streets of London
Languages

Commemorating Lord Byron on the streets of London

...care, thus separating her forever from Claire. He sent her to be educated at a convent near Ravenna, Italy, where, at age five, she died of a fever. Byron arranged for the body to be sent back to England, with a degree of pomp in its final leg that was to foreshadow Byron’s own funeral procession (Byron himself died in Greece exactly two years to the day after Allegra)....
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It’s all in a name: why I refuse to use a ‘white’ name
Society, Politics & Law

It’s all in a name: why I refuse to use a ‘white’ name

...care about it. I started to think that I will never understand his thought process, and this conversation will get very difficult, but I persevered with my views and questions, even knowing our friendship could be very much over. For the third time I brought up Jas’s family. I mentioned his sister (who is also a friend of mine), explaining that she would never have lied...
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Grief during COVID-19: supporting our colleagues to return to work and thrive following loss
Health, Sports & Psychology

Grief during COVID-19: supporting our colleagues to return to work and thrive following loss

...care for employees’ health and wellbeing in the workplace. Organisations that are prepared, are aware of the issues related to bereavement in the workplace. Having a bereavement policy in place can mitigate the costs of employee grief to all concerned and the likely impact on productivity of both the individual and the business as a whole, striking the right balance...
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How to read a rock
Science, Maths & Technology

How to read a rock

...careful and straightforward observations, which is what makes it such a powerful tool. There are lots of different genres to read too. By reading a sedimentary rock, you might learn about vast oceans that have since dried up. Metamorphic rocks can tell you the biography of entire mountain ranges. Reading an igneous rock may reveal the secrets of the bowels of a volcano....
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Oedipus: The message in the myth
History & The Arts

Oedipus: The message in the myth

...careful when you get home. Remember what happened to Agamemnon …". At home Odysseus' son Telemachus is - somewhat slowly - growing up, and he is enjoined: "Do be worthy of your father. Remember how Orestes …" Now to Oedipus in Homer. His single appearance in the Odyssey is in Book 11, where Odysseus visits the Underworld, and there meets, among others, the spirit of...
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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

...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 a Black female academic and...
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International health service: How the NHS has always relied on overseas labour
Society, Politics & Law

International health service: How the NHS has always relied on overseas labour

...care. [Nurse NHS] Although some areas such as emergency medicine, paediatrics and psychiatry have almost always been on the list of shortage specialties and are allowed to recruit internationally, shortages are now more widespread. Moreover, the cap on Tier 2 visas (previously the Work Permit category) from outside the EEA to a maximum of around 20,000 per year across all...
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