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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

...family in Dartford, Kent. After education in botany and secondary teaching at the Universities of Manchester and Liverpool, she went to Ethiopia in 1968, working at the Institute of Agricultural 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...
Daisy Main
Miscellaneous

Daisy Main

...family member suggested I try something completely out of my realm of interest, so I chose ‘Introducing mammals’, and I ended up loving it! Will I use it in the future? Probably not, but at least I know about thermoregulation in mammalian fur!’ she joked! Interested in languages, she was on the lookout for free materials: ‘I was so happy to see how many Chinese...
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Happy New Year
Miscellaneous

Happy New Year

...family. Help others Maybe you want to give something back to the community this year, or help an individual? Take a look at our free badged open course on volunteering and our interactive to help others stay safe online. More free courses on volunteering and cyber security: Working in the voluntary sector Introduction to cyber security: stay safe online Get fit You can...
Cultural differences in mental health?
Health, Sports & Psychology

Cultural differences in mental health?

...family members which provide on-going support, and the nature of the work available which makes it easier for someone recovering from psychosis to engage in productive activities. The other side of the coin is that there are concerns that, as developing countries lack the mental health infrastructure of industrialised countries, there are many people who are not receiving...
Are robots about to take jobs from the poor?
Science, Maths & Technology

Are robots about to take jobs from the poor?

...families. Bangladesh’s garment industry has its flaws, some of them deep - the 2013 Rana Plaza factory collapse is just one tragic reminder. But, in a city of mud-drenched poverty, the absence of a garment industry would make things worse. So I was worried to hear a delegate at the Digital Development Summit, held in London last week (March 13), predict that robots will...
Critical social work practice
Health, Sports & Psychology

Critical social work practice

...family led methods in Scotland. What powers do social workers hold? A look at the nature of the power that the social worker holds. Relative power in decision making Where is the power in social work? Who does it lie with? What negotiation is required? Regulation in social work A look at the growth of regulation and how that feeds into the ability of individual...
Listening to young children: supporting transition
Education & Development

Listening to young children: supporting transition

...Family Centre (Medhurst, 2014). She interviewed the boys’ mother, family worker and new nursery worker, and found that pre-transition visits to the nursery with the boys and their family worker, had been valuable opportunities to listen to their needs and interests, to build continuity and address concerns. To extend their listening further the collective group also...
Meetings with a polite Opium Eater: Charles Knight on Thomas De Quincey
History & The Arts

Meetings with a polite Opium Eater: Charles Knight on Thomas De Quincey

...family were in the country in the summer of 1825, when he was staying at my house in Pall Mall East. A friend or two had met him at dinner, and I had walked part of the way home with one of them. When I returned, I tapped at his chamber-door to bid him good night. He was sitting at the open window, habited as a prize-fighter when he enters the ring. "You will take cold,"...