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Can the NHS solve its bullying problem?
Health, Sports & Psychology

Can the NHS solve its bullying problem?

...social defence against our own feelings of vulnerability, anxiety and aggression. Under this model, bullying is an attempt to project our own vulnerability and fear into other people, something that under the right (or wrong) circumstances we are all capable of doing. [A nurse has a moment of stress] This is not to suggest that everyone is actually a bully, but rather...
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Which Poverty and Place: Why how we label different areas matters
Languages

Which Poverty and Place: Why how we label different areas matters

...social issue, different areas were associated with different aspects of poverty.To understand how attitudes about deprived areas and the people who live there are developed and reproduced, we need to look at the language used to talk about different places. In particular, we can take a look at Representations of Poverty and Place in the mass media. This could involve...
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Drugs and the law: Legal highs
Society, Politics & Law

Drugs and the law: Legal highs

...social and violent behaviour, particularly amongst the prison population, and research has indicated that there has been a significant negative impact on the homeless community. This has led the government to take action to criminalise the possession and supply of legal highs last year, but there remains an interesting debate regarding whether prohibition is the best way...
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What’s corruption got to do with climate change, and why should we care?
Nature & Environment

What’s corruption got to do with climate change, and why should we care?

...social scientists who study corruption4 who are concerned that money allocated to climate projects may not always be spent in the way intended. Non-governmental organisations (NGOs) such as Transparency International5 and Oxfam6 share the concerns of activists such as the jailed Russian opposition campaigner, Alexei Navalny. Navalny wrote a letter from prison7 in August...
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Learning How To Learn: Words from the Wise
Education & Development

Learning How To Learn: Words from the Wise

...social benefits, and this is highlighted by a quotation from the wisest of wise men, Confucius, the Chinese philosopher from the sixth to fifth centuries BCE: [ Statue of Conifucius in Yueyang, China which sits on the shore of the Dongting Lake.] Chinese philosopher, Confucius "When I walk along with two others, from at least one I will be able to learn." Although your...
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A matter of life and death: inequalities in healthcare for Black, Asian and minority ethnic communities
Health, Sports & Psychology

A matter of life and death: inequalities in healthcare for Black, Asian and minority ethnic communities

...social, economic, political and environmental explanations for the disproportionate disparities experienced by workers in Black, Asian and minority ethnic communities. Not only were these workers more likely to be front line workers and therefore at greater risk of acquiring COVID-19 but, because of the structural racism that exists in organisations like the National...
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About The Open Centre for Languages and Cultures
Languages

About The Open Centre for Languages and Cultures

...interactive online learning informed by our years of expertise in distance learning. Why not have a go at completing a taster course in a language you’ve always been interested in or try returning to a language you’ve studied before? It may well surprise you how quickly you pick it up! Each taster course offers approximately 8 hours of free learning and is perfect...
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Supporting learners to become agents for sustainability
Education & Development

Supporting learners to become agents for sustainability

...Interact, Catch & Store Energy, Obtain a Yield, Apply Self-Regulation & Accept Feedback, Use & Value Renewable Resources, Produce Zero Waste, Design from Patterns to Details, Integrate Rather than Segregate, Use Small & Slow Solutions, Use & Value Diversity, Use Edges & Value the Marginal and Creatively Use & Respond to Change. Promoting transformative change can depend...
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