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Building motivation and resilience in research
Science, Maths & Technology

Building motivation and resilience in research

...resources to sustain motivation adopt a growth mindset to approach challenges effectively...Building motivation and resilience in research: 1 Understanding resilience - Research and project work often feel like a marathon rather than a sprint. While moments of discovery can be exhilarating, the process is rarely straightforward. Experiments fail, papers get rejected,...
Who counts as a refugee?
Society, Politics & Law

Who counts as a refugee?

...human history people have migrated from their place of birth for different reasons – for example, to seek new ways of surviving, to colonise new lands, to establish new markets for trade, or because they feared for their lives in their country of origin. Large movements of refugees around the world, as in the late twentieth century, are often linked to wider regional or...
Level 3: Advanced 10 hrs
Applying social work law with children and families
Society, Politics & Law

Applying social work law with children and families

...Human Right (ECtHR) in a way that includes a wider range of relationships than covered by statute (see K v United Kingdom [1986] 50 DR 199; 207 E Comm HR). Family life usually requires the existence of a close personal relationship, but it is not limited to relationships based only on blood, marital ties or recognised in law in some other way. The recognition by...
‘Land grab’: an environmental issue?
Nature & Environment

‘Land grab’: an environmental issue?

...resources that a given person or group can deploy in pursuit of their objectives, and the ability of individuals and groups to shape the discourses that people use when they communicate (and thus set agendas that others involved may accept as legitimate, fair and authoritative). A discourse in this sense may include a powerful idea or set of ideas, shared values and...
Goal-setting for a better world: Millennium Development Goals and Post-2015 Development Agenda
Society, Politics & Law

Goal-setting for a better world: Millennium Development Goals and Post-2015 Development Agenda

...humanity’s relationship with the earth. Some of the milestones in the concept’s development towards global platform are given in this table: 1972 Club of Rome publishes controversial Limits to Growth. Predicts dire consequences if growth is not slowed. Northern countries criticize the report for not including technological solutions while Southern countries are...
Methods in Motion: As borders flex, how does citizenship change?
Society, Politics & Law

Methods in Motion: As borders flex, how does citizenship change?

...human rights, development studies, public policy and education. Yet, the interdisciplinarity of the field, and the variety of ways of looking at citizenship, have also meant that there is no distinct methodological approach to citizenship, and that no single methodological approach can say all that there is to be said about citizenship. What is more, as the day school...
Shopping for citizenship: A conversation at the Citizenshop
Society, Politics & Law

Shopping for citizenship: A conversation at the Citizenshop

...humans in the world). * I am (citizenship) American Living in (Nation) USA What makes a good citizen is: Action with a moral conscience; We cannot avoid different opinions (and my country is arguably founded upon the tension between different opinions) but one ought to at least believe in something that goes beyond cowardice or exploitation of other...And then take steps...
Scotland’s ‘not proven’ verdict helps juries communicate their belief of guilt when lack of evidence fails to convict
Society, Politics & Law

Scotland’s ‘not proven’ verdict helps juries communicate their belief of guilt when lack of evidence fails to convict

...Human Rights. Testing the verdict My team wanted to test the claims that the not proven verdict may increase the chances of a defendant being acquitted. For this experiment we recruited 128 participants, and each participant acted as a juror in two separate mock murder trials. In one trial, the jurors could give one of three verdicts: guilty, not guilty or not proven. In...