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Reparations for slavery in Barbados
Education & Development

Reparations for slavery in Barbados

...worked together to ensure vast financial success for those who were invested in the island. With this boom in the demand for sugar came the use of slavery (Knorr, 1944, p. 12). Operation of Slavery Owing to its geographic location, a large number of those arriving in Barbados came via the Middle Passage (the route from West Africa across the Atlantic Ocean). The horrors...
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The People on the Notes: Elizabeth Fry
History & The Arts

The People on the Notes: Elizabeth Fry

...work to occupy their time, formed a Ladies Association the members of which would visit, dispense advice, and give religious instruction, and laid down new rules policing prisoners’ behaviour. After winning the support of the inmates, in April 1817 Fry invited the Lord Mayor, Sheriffs and City Aldermen to the female side of Newgate secure their approval for the project....
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Challenging gender discrimination in academia: a call for inclusive change
Education & Development

Challenging gender discrimination in academia: a call for inclusive change

...social factors (Roos and Gatta, 2009; Johnson, 2018; LERU, 2019). Discrimination operates at multiple levels (Ovseiko, et al., 2016; Easterly and Ricard, 2020): Individual: everyday biases and microaggressions affecting women’s confidence and visibility. Institutional: policies and evaluation systems that undervalue women’s work. Structural: broader societal...
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Does poor spelling really make President Trump unfit for office?
Languages

Does poor spelling really make President Trump unfit for office?

...social media was predictably caustic. As one tweeter put it: “If you don’t know the difference between #heel and heal, you shouldn’t have the nuclear codes and you sure as heck shouldn’t be POTUS.” Similar mockery has greeted his previous linguistic fumbles, not least the notorious “unpresidented”, which was picked by some as 2016’s word of the year. It...
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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

...social progress in terms of the legal rights of sexual minority people, especially in wealthy countries. It might be easy to assume that life should have got considerably better for LGB young people. But the social and legal progress that has been driven largely by adults does not necessarily result in the improved psychological well-being of sexual minority young people....
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Harry Potter and Parenting
Education & Development

Harry Potter and Parenting

...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 Dursleys.In the opening scene of the first book we see the orphaned Harry being delivered, as a baby, to the home of his adoptive...
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What does it mean to be a South Asian young adult carer?
Health, Sports & Psychology

What does it mean to be a South Asian young adult carer?

...social care and education professionals. Are you a young adult carer? Alternatively, if you are a South Asian parent of a young person, perhaps your daughter or son is a carer? What do South Asian young adult carers do? We are carrying out research with South Asian young adult carers living in England (see below). We interviewed them about what their caring roles involve....
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Grammar matters
Languages

Grammar matters

...work and how they relate to the context in which they are generated. In turn, this can enable us to develop our use of grammar to say what we mean more successfully, and so to make our speech, writing and other communication more effective. So, in this course you will see how studying grammar as a tool for meaning-making has numerous useful applications in the real world...
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Level 3: Advanced 8 hrs