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Archive course extract: Attachment theory
Education & Development

Archive course extract: Attachment theory

...communication. By contrast, another infant may have a carer who is quite depressed, spending a lot of time in a self-absorbed state and with a generally low mood. This infant may spend long periods of time alone, or with an emotionally unavailable carer, where distress goes unacknowledged. When infant distress is responded to, it may sometimes be that the carer feels the...
COVID-19: Making decisions based on flawed statistics
Science, Maths & Technology

COVID-19: Making decisions based on flawed statistics

...community, on average. Statisticians always urge caution against extrapolating trends far beyond data boundaries. You can see how unrealistic this extrapolation, and this modelling, is if you consider that when you go further beyond 6.6, then this model predicts, for example, that a local authority with 7 reported cases per 1000 people should have negative infection rate....
Paris Attacks: Social media is the villain of the piece, and the hero of the hour
Digital & Computing

Paris Attacks: Social media is the villain of the piece, and the hero of the hour

...community to conduct their onslaught. Inciting acts of violence is a key element of IS’s radical religious ideology. It mandates that its people are following the “true” path of Allah and are helping to bring to pass a great apocalyptic battle between coalition forces and “Rome”, which to them is the will of Allah. Social media advantage Social media is...
Addressing ethical issues in your research proposal
Education & Development

Addressing ethical issues in your research proposal

...community of educational or health and social care researchers for publication and dissemination your wellbeing and development The National Institute for Health and Care Research (no date) has emphasised the need to promote equality, diversity and inclusion when undertaking research, particularly to address long-standing social and health inequalities. Research should be...
Prison Abolition in Question(s): Part One
Education & Development

Prison Abolition in Question(s): Part One

...community support structures – that need to be met for people to be able to live better and more safely in society. 8. Should we not just lock people up and throw away the key to keep them off our streets? We cannot lock our way out of the crime problem. The ‘crime of the streets’ is generational – many lawbreakers desist from ‘street crimes’ as they get older...
How can corporations reduce digital carbon footprints?
Nature & Environment

How can corporations reduce digital carbon footprints?

...Communicate: Include digital carbon measurements and targets as part of the broader sustainability communications, as well as individual reward and recognition for reduction achievements. Ideas for reducing an organisation’s digital carbon footprint When it comes to reducing digital carbon footprints across an organisation, there are a range of activities that can be...
From insecurity to insecurity: Black and Ethnic Minority Europeans in the UK
Society, Politics & Law

From insecurity to insecurity: Black and Ethnic Minority Europeans in the UK

...communities or those who migrated more recently, often as parts of postcolonial or labour migrations. Challenging research Our recent research on the experiences of recent Black and Ethnic Minority migrants from Greece and Spain challenges such an argument that pitches European citizens and Black and minority migrants’ rights against each other. As practices of counting...
Practice supervision and assessment in nursing
Health, Sports & Psychology

Practice supervision and assessment in nursing

...Communication and relationship management skills. (NMC, 2018c) At the point of registration, the registered nurse will be able to safely demonstrate the following skills: 1; 4.1: Demonstrate effective supervision, teaching and performance appraisal through the use of Annex A section 4.1.1 to 4.1.5 (NMC, 2018c)...Practice supervision and assessment in nursing: 1.1 Practice...