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Statistics: What is it or what are they?
Science, Maths & Technology

Statistics: What is it or what are they?

...research organisation MORI interviewed 1,955 adults across the UK. Of the 949 of these who said they would be certain to vote if there were an election the next day, 39% said they would vote Conservative, 35% Labour, 19% Liberal Democrat, and the rest for other parties or candidates. These numbers are statistics in the plural sense; they are facts about what the...
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The lifelong political engagement of the Silent Generation
Health, Sports & Psychology

The lifelong political engagement of the Silent Generation

...glorious past, ‘they didn’t live through it’. As the research progresses, it is clear that citizenship and political engagement is lifelong. Just because official information gatherers do not recognise the value of the opinions of our oldest citizens does not mean their voices should be silenced. They have important things to say, and we should be listening....
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OpenMinds: Open and Shut Cases – Professor Simon Lee’s Inaugural lecture
Miscellaneous

OpenMinds: Open and Shut Cases – Professor Simon Lee’s Inaugural lecture

...research from the USA on whether judges, lawyers, law students and the general public think differently and he will question how we can encourage students and the wider public to be open-minded. Finally, he will reflect on Allan Bloom’s challenging book, The Closing of the American Mind from 1987 and the battle-cries of ‘post-truth’ and ‘fake news’ in 2017. He...
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Dialogues Across Borders
Society, Politics & Law

Dialogues Across Borders

...research on smartphones and refugees and the poetry and photo exhibition she co-created with refugees at Pikpa Camp formed the basis of two of the workshops. Elena’s travelling exhibition which she took to many cities across the world as part of Play is Hope project forged new relationships with refugees and artists and some of them joined us at the Tate by videolink...
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Green care: contact with nature can improve mental health
Health, Sports & Psychology

Green care: contact with nature can improve mental health

...researchers. The time may be right to promote ‘green care’ to health commissioners and practitioners concerned to find more ways of helping vulnerable individuals, whilst perhaps more widely we will find public health campaigners urging us to get back to growing plants in our gardens again! References Bragg, R., Atkins, G. 2016. A review of nature-based interventions...
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Do dogs want to go to heaven?
History & The Arts

Do dogs want to go to heaven?

...research demonstrates that many animals demonstrate complex abilities to anticipate and plan future possibilities. Cows and crows solve problems, thereby indicating their ability to want better situations. We may never know whether dogs believe in heaven or not, but there is evidence that animals can and do want things, and that they act on those desires to shape their...
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Using lanthanides as medical imaging tools
Science, Maths & Technology

Using lanthanides as medical imaging tools

...research into the properties of molecules containing lanthanides is an exciting field with the potential to lead to an easier and faster disease diagnosis process. According to Oxford Dictionary “rare” can also mean “Unusually good or remarkable”. Maybe, after all, rare wasn’t such a bad name to use to describe the lanthanides! More about the periodic table and...
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Religious literacy for Further education: A social justice approach
History & The Arts

Religious literacy for Further education: A social justice approach

...research project titled ‘Religious Literacy for FE (Further education): A Social Justice Approach’, funded by St Peter’s Saltley Trust. The objective of the project was to develop assets to support the teaching of religious literacy in FE, with a particular focus on challenging the stereotypes, cliches and prejudices sometimes associated with religious and...
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