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Knife crime is a health risk for young people – it can’t be solved by policing alone
Education & Development

Knife crime is a health risk for young people – it can’t be solved by policing alone

...project. Later initiatives appeared to pull funding from the programme while placing more emphasis on law enforcement and drug offences and even less on measures for early intervention and prevention. Life on the road The government made the fatal error of assuming that all violence and crime among young people in cities is caused by gangs. But the evidence for the...
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How technology can challenge our understanding of Frankenstein
History & The Arts

How technology can challenge our understanding of Frankenstein

...Project Gutenberg. This gives us the opportunity to examine new ways of reading with the help of specialised text analysis software. Computers excel at tasks that humans find challenging, such as identifying and counting repeating patterns. Digital reading can thus draw our attention to textual phenomena that deserves further investigation. What insights can we then gain...
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How can we encourage people to mend their clothes?
Science, Maths & Technology

How can we encourage people to mend their clothes?

...projects The occasional mender: just fixes what they need, when they need it The delegating mender: prefers someone else to do the fixing The heritage mender: learns from traditions and passes them on The serviced mender: takes things to professionals to get the job done. These personas show us that a one-size-fits-all solution won’t work. A repair café might be...
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Building belonging and mattering to achieve equity for Black STEM students
Education & Development

Building belonging and mattering to achieve equity for Black STEM students

...project, launched in 2024, set out to address this challenge. At its heart is the Black STEM Hub, a space created by and for Black STEM students to learn, connect, share experiences, and build supportive networks. Through recorded monthly online sessions that covered themes of Imposter syndrome, Employability, Financial literacy, and Black History, the Black STEM Hub is a...
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An overview of wound care
Health, Sports & Psychology

An overview of wound care

...managing in their needs and rehabilitation. As with all clinical information, you should seek out and follow local policy...The overarching aim of wound care is to provide the optimum conditions in which wound healing can take place – or in the case of chronic, non-healing wounds, to facilitate the most advantageous quality of life for the service user (Mallik et al.,...
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OpenMinds: Why visit Mars and what we might find there?
Miscellaneous

OpenMinds: Why visit Mars and what we might find there?

...year running. [Northern Ireland Science Festival Logo][Copyrighted image Icon][space science masters image]Study space science at postgraduate level to prepare for managing major missions like those to Mars: MSc in Space Science and Technology Study space science at undergraduate level: Questions in science - introductory level Planetary science and the search for life...
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Past-Time Lover: Ludwik Lazarus Zamenhof
History & The Arts

Past-Time Lover: Ludwik Lazarus Zamenhof

...managed to learn a few with the help of my father. He taught me French and German. Later on, I learnt some English and even got into some Lithuanian and Italian. Alongside modern languages, I also studied classical languages such as Latin, Greek, Hebrew and Aramaic, while at school. I am, in fact, passionate about languages! Where I grew up, on the Polish-Russian border,...
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National Enrichment Programme for Schools
Education & Development

National Enrichment Programme for Schools

...management Studying with the OU Study part time for a degree with The Open University in Wales Have you completed your studies in Wales and considering your next move? Explore the flexibility of a part-time degree with The Open University in Wales, and fit your studies around your life so that you can earn while you learn. We offer high quality courses to anyone with the...
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