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Workshops on gender diversity – helping us move from insults to inclusion.
Health, Sports & Psychology

Workshops on gender diversity – helping us move from insults to inclusion.

...community-based organisations that they are a part of, have also been working hard to improve this situation. For example, in New Zealand the youth-led organisation RainbowYOUTH has been delivering gender diversity workshops for over a dozen years. These types of educational interventions are sometimes referred to as “Trans 101” or “Introduction to Gender...
Learning with braille – more than just joining the dots
Education & Development

Learning with braille – more than just joining the dots

...communicate silently and in the dark. This led Captain Charles Barbier de la Serre to develop his Ecriture Nocturne (night reading) system. Barbier used a 6x6 grid with raised dots to represent the letters (and some common pairs of letters) of the French alphabet. [Barbier's sonography ('night writing')] Sonography In 1821 Barbier demonstrated his system at the Institut...
What effects does mercury have on health and the environment?
Science, Maths & Technology

What effects does mercury have on health and the environment?

...communities the concentration of mercury in children's hair is correlated with the duration of breast-feeding. Reports of high mercury levels in mothers and children mostly come from regions where people eat a lot of fish; for example, high levels of blood mercury have been detected in people in the USA who identify themselves as Asians, Pacific Islanders or Native...
A ‘disorder’ or just me? Life with bipolar
Health, Sports & Psychology

A ‘disorder’ or just me? Life with bipolar

...communication) ‘Nowadays, all I have left is a ghost of an identity formed in a diagnosis. Sometimes my self-stigma or real stigma inhibits my career.’ (extract from Mental Health Foundation blog) Stephen Fry reputedly said that he thinks about mood variations as: ‘about finding a kind of mental umbrella: Hey-ho, it’s raining inside; it isn’t my fault and...
Entrepreneurial resilience or moving the goal posts?
Money & Business

Entrepreneurial resilience or moving the goal posts?

...community sites. The entrepreneurs involved demonstrated highly effectual approaches. For example, a number of them described how they had started a business at home as it kept the costs at a level they could afford, and could afford to lose if the business went wrong. One respondent described how she and her partner moved their bookshop, which was once a physical shop,...
What the 2024 Paris Olympics can tell us about French language policy today
Education & Development

What the 2024 Paris Olympics can tell us about French language policy today

...Communication between France and citizens of the former colonies has traditionally taken place through the national language, helping to secure its status and dominance. This language policy is still embraced by many institutions, including the International Organisation of La Francophonie (OIF) whose mission it is to promote the French language amongst its 88 member...
The challenges of ethical trading - perspective of a retailer
Money & Business

The challenges of ethical trading - perspective of a retailer

...Communication of the company’s aspirations via its Code is vital, both to suppliers and internally and this has manifested a new skill set and the requirement for specific training in social accountability. It has bought about the need for CSR and ET specialists and the need to raise awareness both internally and externally (for e.g. buyers, HR teams, managers’...
Will India prove fertile ground for post-Brexit trade?
Society, Politics & Law

Will India prove fertile ground for post-Brexit trade?

...communities in India. It is this group that Modi was wooing at Wembley and we can be sure that clips from the jamboree will be played in the build-up to future Indian elections. So, as the UK woos India, India is playing to its own electorate and interests. Even on British soil, there is a politics of trade, business and democracy – just not the UK’s, but its own....