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The secret history of teenage bedrooms
Education & Development

The secret history of teenage bedrooms

...social reformer, who’s arguing – this is back in 1854 – in favour of young people having separate bedrooms. Where two or three children occupy the same room neither feel their personal responsibility to keep it in order and hence grow up habituated to slatternly disorder. Whereas if each had a room all alone to themselves they would be [indistinct words] to keep it...
Creating bridges: The importance of sharing research findings with the public
Health, Sports & Psychology

Creating bridges: The importance of sharing research findings with the public

...work has on the wider public. This is especially important for peer reviewed publications in the wider areas of health and social care, where the findings of some research studies may directly facilitate a behaviour change that might be beneficial to the individual and the public. For example, very early in the course of the pandemic we recognised that the risk of dying...
Oxfam: Challenges for a complex charity
Money & Business

Oxfam: Challenges for a complex charity

...working in the field. How then do you balance the needs of these different groups? For many charities like Oxfam one important way of raising funds is through commercial activities such as charity shops. But as anyone knows who walks down high street this is an increasingly competitive market place. In order to be successful charity shops have to be run on increasingly on...
Home education collection
Education & Development

Home education collection

...working within and across mainstream and/or alternative provision settings including teachers and transition support workers Local government professionals and related staff including education welfare officers, social workers and/or attendance officers Policymakers A short disclaimer As an educational practice and field of study, home education invites diverse ideas and...
Standards for better cotton
Money & Business

Standards for better cotton

...working on this solution for 5 years already. The Better Cotton Initiative (BCI) is a not-for-profit organisation stewarding the global standards for Better Cotton, and bringing together cotton’s complex supply chain, from the farmers to the retailers. BCI exists to make global cotton production better for the people who produce it, better for the environment it grows...
PodMag April 2016
Society, Politics & Law

PodMag April 2016

...Social Sciences at The Open University...The April 2016 edition of the PodMag focuses on book launches. Karen Foley interviews Professor Paul Anand about ‘Happiness Explained’, Dr Meg-John Barker on ‘Secrets of Enduring Love, how to make relationships last’, Dr Edward Wastnidge on ‘Diplomacy and Reform in Iran’, and Dr Gerry Mooney on ‘Poverty in Scotland...
Seeing the bigger picture: exploring the stories of children from migrant backgrounds
Education & Development

Seeing the bigger picture: exploring the stories of children from migrant backgrounds

...worked closely with the children’s teacher, practitioners and parents to listen to children’s photo conversations and the making of their personalised photo storybooks. Stories are conveyed through the layered images within, and connections between, individual photographs. In the photograph below, four-year-old Sasha communicates visually and emotionally the close...
Methods in Motion: Becoming relativist
Society, Politics & Law

Methods in Motion: Becoming relativist

...working in a world where knowledge is always relative to a perspective or method but no less valuable. In fact, such relative knowledge actually becomes more valuable. Much of 20th century European philosophy has grappled with what they saw as our brave new existential situation, and variations of relativism are increasingly recognized also in the natural and social...