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Ian McMillan's Writing Lab interviews: Mark Ravenhill on... play writing
History & The Arts

Ian McMillan's Writing Lab interviews: Mark Ravenhill on... play writing

...changes from year to year, management speak, the kind of words that politicians are using this year, the kind of words that school kids are using this year. Every job, every profession, every social class has its own vocabulary, and they change year on year, and I think one of the jobs of a playwright is to listen to those and keep up to date with those. I think on the...
Paul Williams - Earth in Vision
Nature & Environment

Paul Williams - Earth in Vision

...changing planet Archive, natural history archive, can really help people to tell stories about change because we have essentially captured a beautiful, vivid, illustrative record of change over the past 50 years, even beyond. We’ve been making wildlife films for over 100 years now, the Natural History Unit and the BBC has been making wildlife films for over 50 years; in...
Collective leadership
Money & Business

Collective leadership

...change for the future? So the first of those is the perceptions. Quite a lot of people look at policing from the outside and they see this first, and they think we're like the military, and we follow orders all the time, and it's all about discipline. And actually, do you know what? On the inside, it doesn't really feel like that. In 28 years of policing, in 26 years of...
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Designing the Spanish nation
Languages

Designing the Spanish nation

...changes in the overall presentation of the arms. Most distinct were the addition of the motto behind the eagle’s neck “Una grande libre” (“One, Great and Free”) as well as the Pillars of Hercules that Charles I had incorporated to his imperial version of the arms. [Coat of arms of King Philip IV of Spain] Coat of arms of King Philip VI of Spain Today, the Royal...
Personality: A user guide
Health, Sports & Psychology

Personality: A user guide

...change, but major change is the exception rather than the rule. Personality differences tend to manifest themselves through the quick, gut-feeling, intuitive and emotional systems of the human mind. The slower, rational, deliberate systems show less variation in output from person to person. Deliberate rational strategies can be used to over-ride intuitive patterns of...
A history of child protection
Education & Development

A history of child protection

...changes over the past century, re-defining its objectives as our understanding of abuse has changed. Now it includes not only neglect, economic exploitation, and cruelty, but emotional, psychological, and sex abuse as well. So child protection enters the 21st century with a substantial depth of good – but often painful - experience of welfare and law. It must attract...
Psychological profiling
Health, Sports & Psychology

Psychological profiling

...change whatever psychological deficit it is that brought them there in the first place." Given Paul's high profile it seems unbelievable that he hasn't spent his entire life working in this field, yet he points out that "I came to psychology probably later than most people start their academic careers. I had a wife, I had two children, I had a mortgage, so the actual...
Defining your research methodology
Education & Development

Defining your research methodology

...change, like comparing learning outcomes of students taught through a standard classroom book versus simulations. In this strategy, participants are randomly assigned to a control or experimental group (for example, the classroom book or the simulation group). The non-experimental strategy is used when you don't aim to change a situation, but still measure outcomes in...