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FGM prevalence and healthcare planning
Health, Sports & Psychology

FGM prevalence and healthcare planning

...Research undertaken by Bailot et al. (2014) for the Scottish Refugee Council estimated that 24,000 people had originated from FGM-practising countries. Although this study was instrumental in providing baseline data to inform the national FGM intervention strategy, it was conducted over 10 years ago and can no longer be a true reflection of the migrant population. At the...
What happens to you when you read?
Health, Sports & Psychology

What happens to you when you read?

...Research shows that as well as providing us with a form of entertainment, the activity of reading can bring benefits to our wellbeing in challenging times. People have experienced and explored these benefits throughout history. A good story can entertain us, develop our creativity and imagination, and transport us to different fictional worlds, but it can change us...
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Education & Development

Leadership and followership

...research. By participating in this high profile research, you will be contributing to scientific knowledge about adult skill development and how we can develop successful future careers. Participation is confidential, voluntary and we will not pass on your details to others....Week 1: Where are you starting from?: Introduction - Welcome to Week 1 of this free badged...
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Health, disease and society: Scottish influence in the 19th century
History & The Arts

Health, disease and society: Scottish influence in the 19th century

...research, and the laboratory scientist claimed a greater authority than the clinical practitioner. The diagnosis of particular infectious diseases now relied on tests on tissue samples performed at the lab bench, not simply on the subjective analysis of patterns of symptoms. At the time Nicholas Jewson published his article ‘The disappearance of the sick-man from...
5 things you need to know about sepsis
Health, Sports & Psychology

5 things you need to know about sepsis

...research has shown that one in five deaths around the world is caused by sepsis. Esther Almond tells us five important things to know about this condition, known also as blood poisoning...1: Many people develop sepsis – Raising awareness of sepsis can save lives It is estimated that sepsis affects 27-30 million people worldwide each year. There are several linked terms...
Migrant parenting
Health, Sports & Psychology

Migrant parenting

...research is taking place. The key points I explored with my participants in the semi-structured interviews considered the following: Experiences of migration and being a migrant parent in the UK, particularly reflecting on the impact of Brexit vote in 2016 Reflections on gendered nature of parenting, particularly acknowledging the demands of intensive parenting and how...
Arendt
History & The Arts

Arendt

...of Evil. Publication of On Revolution. 1967 professor at New School for Social Research, New York 1975 8 December - dies of a heart attack in New York 1978 publication of two volumes of The Life of the Mind Reading Hannah Arendt, Eichmann in Jerusalem: a Report on the Banality of Evil, Penguin paperback Peter Baehr, editor, The Portable Hannah Arendt, Penguin paperback...
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Sue Edwards: a life dedicated to flora and sustainable development in Ethiopia
Nature & Environment

Sue Edwards: a life dedicated to flora and sustainable development in Ethiopia

...Research and lecturing at Addis Ababa University for many years. Alongside this she worked extensively in a number of grassroot development projects, which in her later career were based at the Institute for Sustainable Development, where she was a director. In her 50 years of dedicated service to Ethiopia and Eritrea, she had made massive contribution to botany, from...