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Ambitions for Palliative and End of Life Care: making sense of a national framework for local action
Health, Sports & Psychology

Ambitions for Palliative and End of Life Care: making sense of a national framework for local action

...community action focused on promoting education and support amongst the population. Importantly for those we spoke to, implementation was not a one-off process but something that involved continuous service redesign, evaluation, and collaboration. The majority of the people we spoke to were working within palliative and end of life care. Nevertheless, the Ambitions...
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Drivers and hand-held mobile phones: extending the ban won’t solve the problem – here’s why
Health, Sports & Psychology

Drivers and hand-held mobile phones: extending the ban won’t solve the problem – here’s why

...communicative function’ such as calling or texting. The change in the law closes this loophole, and makes it easier for distracted drivers to be prosecuted, fined £200, and given six points on their licence. According to the UK government, 81% of people who responded to its consultation supported the move. This aligns with findings from roadside breakdown group RAC,...
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Ten top tips for writing a novel
History & The Arts

Ten top tips for writing a novel

...communicating reality. Watch films, listen to music, go to art galleries. Look at the way in which other artists channel and shape their experience. Be Zen. Projects like NaNoWriMo are great for motivation, but a month of non-stop writing can feed into the notion that producing a novel is a manic and insatiable activity, and that the best way to resolve this is to do...
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The Celtic origins of the Welsh language
Education & Development

The Celtic origins of the Welsh language

...communication. Over time, they pushed south, west and north, expanding their kingdoms and driving wedges between the speakers of Brittonic. [Map showing migration of settlers] This is a map of north-west Europe, with arrows indicating movement from modern-day northern Germany and Denmark to Northumbria and Mercia (Angles), East Anglia (Saxons) and Wessex (Jutes). Over the...
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‘Nobody can say to me that I can’t do it’: Exploring the study journey of female students from South Asian backgrounds
Education & Development

‘Nobody can say to me that I can’t do it’: Exploring the study journey of female students from South Asian backgrounds

...community for all our students. Ongoing work to decolonise the curriculum needs to take a holistic approach which addresses the wider student experience, visibility and relationship building, and university culture as well as curriculum content. Notably, consideration of representation and power dynamics within the scholarship team, flexible, creative research methods,...
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Impossible Peace 2: The missing legacy voices
OpenLearn Ireland

Impossible Peace 2: The missing legacy voices

...community voices and into the media, to colleagues of mine who reported on that long journey from then to now. For several decades, this place lost itself in the trenches and in the traps of war, before discovering the importance of words and dialogue and the challenges of compromise. Here I list just 40 of those missing voices. There are many, many more. Martin...
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Helen Cammock and the art of storytelling
Languages

Helen Cammock and the art of storytelling

...community. And more often than not these stories trade in binary opposites: protagonist versus antagonist; socialism versus capitalism; red states versus blue states; Leave versus Remain. In populist politics, these binaries slide even more into stereotype, until they end up as the sort of traduced stories and conspiracy theories which have plagued political discourse...
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Navigating Black Irish identity in the music of Phil Lynott
Health, Sports & Psychology

Navigating Black Irish identity in the music of Phil Lynott

...communities. He is not accepted as Black enough by one group, while seen as too Black by the other (‘the brown boy is born to serve’), echoing the challenges Lynott himself faced in his own quest for acceptance. 5. In the Delta (1981) – Lynott shifts focus to the American South, adopting the perspective of a man ‘working on that chain gang, breakin’ rocks for...
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