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The Special Adviser’s Tale, or Political Storytelling in the Time of Covid
Languages

The Special Adviser’s Tale, or Political Storytelling in the Time of Covid

...communications these days. As the authors of the updated version of Raymond Williams’s Keywords project wrote a few years ago, in the twenty-first century the concept of ‘narrative… has seen a sharp rise in frequency… especially in such phrases as “change the narrative” and “take control of the narrative,” which have become unavoidable in political...
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Lesbian, gay and bisexual teenagers at much greater risk of depression
Health, Sports & Psychology

Lesbian, gay and bisexual teenagers at much greater risk of depression

...community events and online sources – so-called convenience-based sampling. But studies using LGB events and related websites to obtain participants are more likely to be skewed towards certain demographic groups, such as males. Because there is scant data available on transgender and intersex young people, we had to exclude these groups from our study. When we compared...
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Harry Potter and Parenting
Education & Development

Harry Potter and Parenting

...community to which Harry really belongs is played and replayed’. (1) These messages echo the findings of parenting researchers and social care practitioners. The Weasleys’ home at The Burrow presents us with an image of an impoverished, chaotic but loving and inclusive family, a contrast to the perfectly tidy but completely loveless world of Privet Drive, home of the...
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Winchcombe Meteorite: Insights from the First Scientist on the Scene
Science, Maths & Technology

Winchcombe Meteorite: Insights from the First Scientist on the Scene

...from asteroid Bennu in 2023. Asteroids Ryugu and Bennu have very similar compositions to Winchcombe. The fact that UK scientists are able to work on similar materials provided by the Winchcombe meteorite means that they will be in a strong position to request precious returned asteroidal materials when these become available to the international scientific community.”...
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Methods in Motion: Inside Outsiders and Outside Insiders
Languages

Methods in Motion: Inside Outsiders and Outside Insiders

...community of outsiders, this could easily be disrupted when interviewees contrasted their own migration history or that of their clients with my Dutch EU citizen privilege. For instance, a refugee case worker who appealed to my own experience of moving abroad to explain that arriving in a new place 'one is really like a child', added that the experience of migration is...
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What effect is social media having on the way we mourn global tragedies?
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What effect is social media having on the way we mourn global tragedies?

...communities united in mourning. But in some quarters this ‘ecstatic sharing’ is devaluing the meaning of public grief. It’s seen as a counterpart to clicktivism and other forms of zero-effort political engagement, with the authenticity of the emotion involved being called into question. The ‘faked’ tube sign in the aftermath of the terror attack in Westminster...
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Methods in Motion: The middle children
Languages

Methods in Motion: The middle children

...communication, telephone discussions and reading text and documents. Most importantly, it usually occurs between the child or young person and two or more adults, and can involve conversations that are sensitive or tricky to navigate. Creative methods formed an important part of my study Child Language Brokering: Spaces of Belonging and Mediators of Cultural Knowledge...
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Twin Town and Welsh cinema in the late 1990s
History & The Arts

Twin Town and Welsh cinema in the late 1990s

...community, matriarch – and subjected them to poetic scrutiny through the filter of the leading character’s obsession with key aspects of American culture. Again, an older Wales is seen as passing away and a struggle to imagine a new one into being is taking place, this time a struggle that takes place against the backdrop of an all-pervasive American culture that...
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