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Review: The Digital Academic - Critical Perspectives on Digital Technologies in Higher Education
Education & Development

Review: The Digital Academic - Critical Perspectives on Digital Technologies in Higher Education

...writing. By focusing a critical lens on academic life, this collection contributes to an increasing body of research interested in universities and the realities for the academics who exist within them. If Burton Clark’s 1987 book The Academic Life began the conversation around the effects of changes such as massification and marketisation, then The Digital Academic...
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The Somme: The German perspective
History & The Arts

The Somme: The German perspective

...Thus, despite the horrific casualties, the German army emerged from the battle of the Somme an even more formidable foe than before the battle. War writing If you'd like to find out more about the Somme and military history, we've a selection of books which can inform you about the subject. Read on in our section further reading. Read more about the First World War...
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Depression, mood and exercise
Health, Sports & Psychology

Depression, mood and exercise

...writing), we will most probably lose it, quickly. Depression or other mental health syndromes do not tend to get better with ageing so the sooner we start helping our body and mind to feel better through regular exercise, the less ageing is going to adversely affect us in terms of mental health and wellbeing. As we all know, physical and mental health are not two...
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Raising awareness and support for men
Health, Sports & Psychology

Raising awareness and support for men

...writing a letter to them by downloading a Freepost letter, phoning or emailing them. Sands has a web page with links to support groups, parent forums and a helpline for bereaved parents following the death of a baby. There are also resources for health professionals. References Cordier, R., Wilson, N.J. (2014) ‘Community-based Men’s Sheds: promoting male health,...
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Reflective practice as self-care: recognising the mental health needs of sexual offence investigators
Society, Politics & Law

Reflective practice as self-care: recognising the mental health needs of sexual offence investigators

...writing and professional development. 5th edition, Sage: London. Brewin, C. R., Miller, J. K., Soffia, M., Peart, A. and Burchell, B. (2022) ‘Posttraumatic stress disorder and complex posttraumatic stress disorder in UK police officers’. Psychological Medicine, 52(7), pp. 1287–1295. Glick, D., Glick, G. and Stein, E. (2016) ‘The autonomic nervous system’. Basics...
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Embodied Intersectionality and British South Asian Muslim Women
Society, Politics & Law

Embodied Intersectionality and British South Asian Muslim Women

...Writing for The Telegraph in 2018, Prime Minister Boris Johnson described Muslim women wearing a niqab (face veil) as looking like ‘letter boxes’ and ‘bank robbers’. Fast forward to 2020, and amidst a global pandemic public health advice to wear a mask to limit the spread of Coronavirus becomes a matter for political debate, with politicians and public alike slow...
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Exploring learning disabilities: supporting belonging Badge icon
Health, Sports & Psychology

Exploring learning disabilities: supporting belonging

...write, they will certainly find it hard to take part on equal terms with people who can – in competing for a job, for example. Activity 2 A learning disability friendly society? Timing: Allow about 5 minutes Click the link below to answer the poll on what you consider important in order for a society to be friendlier to people with a learning disability. Link: A...
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Clinton / Trump: Two views of the first debate
Society, Politics & Law

Clinton / Trump: Two views of the first debate

...writes: The big question going into the first debate of the presidential election was whether Donald Trump would decide to tone down the cartoonish, belligerent alpha male shtick that has carried him this far. The debate gave him an opportunity to present himself unfiltered to an audience predicted to rival that of a Super Bowl, and to reinvent himself as a calmer, more...
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