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Methods in Motion: An emerging politics of Brexit
Society, Politics & Law

Methods in Motion: An emerging politics of Brexit

...attention to the ways that things come into being, for example, new identities, new groupings, new activisms, new ideological and cultural formations. Our final seminar on 14 June will discuss the challenges and prospects for psychology and the social sciences in the era of Brexit. This article was originally published on the Methods in Motion blog More on Methods in...
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Schizophrenia: Beyond science
Health, Sports & Psychology

Schizophrenia: Beyond science

...attention can be given to what we in our communities can do to help rather than just relying on advances in neuroscience and psychopharmacology. Useful links: Improving Mental Health through Social Support: Building Positive and Empowering Relationships Psychiatry in Context: Experiences, Meaning and Communities Recovery from Schizophrenia: Psychiatry, and Political...
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The legacy of Empire: The Bengal Famine
History & The Arts

The legacy of Empire: The Bengal Famine

...attention of the general public. One of the motivations of The Things We Forgot To Remember is as an answer to the question "Why study history?" There are a lot of answers to this, but one important reason is that people are already talking about history, and sometimes, they have got it seriously wrong. One example of this is the widespread ignorance of the Bengal famine....
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Writing for pleasure?
Education & Development

Writing for pleasure?

...knowledge. Balance of course is key, although it is genuinely challenging to explore form and freedom, structure and innovation in the teaching and learning of writing. But without attention to the art and craft of writing and to children’s attitudes, preferences, pleasures and perceptions of themselves as writers, we won’t be developing children who choose to write....
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Irish Gothic story competition winners
OpenLearn Ireland

Irish Gothic story competition winners

...drew readers’ attention on account of its lively energy, earthy imagery and unique Irish flavour. Mitchell skilfully renders the growing disorientation and then panic of Mad Declan, for whom a slight spook in the pub’s storeroom gives way to an unexpected encounter, all of which is comically undercut by a playful closing punchline." Congratulations to all winners!...
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Effective note taking
Education & Development

Effective note taking

...attention span. Why are you making notes? Ask yourself – what do I already know about the subject? What additional information do I need? What questions do I want to answer? Listen carefully to the start of a lecture to establish the structure of the session. Listen for ‘signposts’ e.g., ‘there are three key points’, ‘I want to emphasise’. How do you make...
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Start writing essays
History & The Arts

Start writing essays

...attention. The main body of the essay It is important to write with the mindset that the reader is intelligent but misinformed. Giving both sides of the argument Matthew Kelly’s approach is to try and talk himself out of an argument, he often ends up switching sides. Writing your conclusion It is important to make sure it doesn’t sound like you have too much more to...
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What do the latest pictures of Pluto tell us?
Science, Maths & Technology

What do the latest pictures of Pluto tell us?

...attention in particular on this image are the curved and branching fractures that sweep across the terrain in the lower left and slice through several of the smaller craters, providing evidence of an episode of geological activity, maybe even within the past billion years. You can see the northern ends of a couple of these fractures in the lower left of the next image....
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