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Is Tinder changing the way the world dates?
Society, Politics & Law

Is Tinder changing the way the world dates?

...study by Mitchell Hobbs, Stephen Owen and Livia Gerber (2016) asks whether that assessment is really true. The project explores the experiences of dating app users and investigates how the technology has influenced their sexual practices and views on romantic ideals and long-term relationships. Offline desires, online realities Meeting sexual and romantic partners...
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Article 5 mins
The interplay of language and culture in times of crisis: COVID-19 and beyond
Languages

The interplay of language and culture in times of crisis: COVID-19 and beyond

...Study in the UK during the COVID-19 pandemic and the Data for Ukraine project. Data for Ukraine analyses Twitter data in order to detect a variety of developing events in Ukraine: civilian resistance; displacement of population groups; human rights abuses; and humanitarian needs (Machine Learning for Peace, 2022a). For this purpose, over 600 keywords in Ukrainian and...
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Black Majority Churches (BMCs) and the transformation of British Christianity
History & The Arts

Black Majority Churches (BMCs) and the transformation of British Christianity

...skilled worker at a car factory. Every Sunday, most Wednesday evenings, lots of Friday evenings and a few Saturdays, our entire family would set off to our local branch of the New Testament Church of God (NTCOG), at the time the largest black majority church denomination in the UK. As my sisters left our town to pursue careers, I was eventually the only sibling left into...
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Video 40 mins
Learning from the Global South
Society, Politics & Law

Learning from the Global South

...skill of figuring out what the right questions are to ask about the climate crisis, how its impacts are felt and experienced differently across the Global South, what can be learned and what can be done. The act of listening, especially listening to voices from the Global South, raises key questions for geography, which, as a discipline, has been dominated by the Global...
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Video 45 mins
How can the arts improve health and wellbeing?
History & The Arts

How can the arts improve health and wellbeing?

...studies, for example, have experimented with using music to improve recovery after surgical procedures, which reduced levels of pain and anxiety, requiring lower levels of medication (Hole et al., 2015). The arts are perhaps most closely connected to mental health. Research has shown that arts such as creative writing, music, and dance, have been helpful for reducing...
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Neurodiversity: What is it and what does it look like across races?
Health, Sports & Psychology

Neurodiversity: What is it and what does it look like across races?

...skills such as active listening. However, those who advocate the concept of neurodiversity do not disregard the struggles and difficulties that those people with ADHD, dyslexia, autism, bipolar disorder and other conditions will experience and need to overcome. Instead, while acknowledging these, they also recognise and celebrate the strengths and positive experiences...
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Article 10 mins
Understanding the realities of invisible disabilities
Health, Sports & Psychology

Understanding the realities of invisible disabilities

...studies when they don’t have support for their disabilities. In employment, it can impact stress, productivity and staff turnover. However, the impact is not just limited to individuals. When environments are not inclusive, organisations can lose access to a wider pool of skills and perspectives. There are also broader social and economic implications when people are...
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Investigating psychology
Health, Sports & Psychology

Investigating psychology

...studying this course, you should be able to: use the investigating psychology CHIP resource with confidence understand how the resource can be used to investigate historical and conceptual issues in psychology independently understand the interconnected nature of the history of psychology appreciate how the methods and questions asked in psychology have changed over time...
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Level 2: Intermediate 3 hrs