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How large is the UK alternative finance sector?
Money & Business

How large is the UK alternative finance sector?

...becoming mainstream...The UK online alternative finance sector grew 84% in 2015, facilitating £3.2 billion in investments, loans and donations, according to a new report published today [17th February 2016]. This is a significant increase in volume, but growth of the online alternative finance market is slowing down, with the annual growth in 2014/2015 being nearly half...
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A ‘disorder’ or just me? Life with bipolar
Health, Sports & Psychology

A ‘disorder’ or just me? Life with bipolar

...become completely mute, withdrawn and do not respond to stimulus or to the world around them. This is known as catatonia. The experience of bipolar is uniquely personal. No two people have the same experience, responses to treatments or recovery patterns. Who gets bipolar? How and why people get or become bipolar is not well understood. It has long been thought that...
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Entrepreneurial resilience or moving the goal posts?
Money & Business

Entrepreneurial resilience or moving the goal posts?

...become increasingly planned in their approaches as more stakeholders are involved and it becomes more difficult to dynamically redefine organisational goals. Effectuation has been characterised as a set of four core principles: First, rather than focus on the return to be achieved from a new venture and how this may be maximised, effectuators consider the maximum loss...
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Can the NHS solve its bullying problem?
Health, Sports & Psychology

Can the NHS solve its bullying problem?

...becomes established, defining it as a psychological and social defence against our own feelings of vulnerability, anxiety and aggression. Under this model, bullying is an attempt to project our own vulnerability and fear into other people, something that under the right (or wrong) circumstances we are all capable of doing. [A nurse has a moment of stress] This is not to...
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Which Poverty and Place: Why how we label different areas matters
Languages

Which Poverty and Place: Why how we label different areas matters

...become associated with inequality, how that association is reinforced and reproduced, and, ultimately, how the deprivation in an area becomes transformed into a characteristic of the people who live there. [High rise council flat in deprived poor housing estate in Cardonald, Glasgow] On a local level, people can develop attitudes and opinions about a neighbourhood through...
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How can we design for resilience?
Science, Maths & Technology

How can we design for resilience?

...become a buzzword, yet endures as a meaningful concept offering a valuable toolset for design. This article, drawn from over a decade of practice in design for resilience, will suggest how resilience concepts can be enabling for working with urgent change and sustainability in design...Resilience – the property of being able to rebound after a shock or disturbance –...
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How to read the news
Society, Politics & Law

How to read the news

...become a major concern for society. Understanding how the news industry operates, and reflecting how we, as consumers, interact with it, can be very useful in the fight against the corrupting influence of ‘fake news’. As a follow-on from short films created by The Open University on the topic, we’ve written some top tips, questions to ask yourself and suggestions to...
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Uncanny valley: why we find human-like robots and dolls so creepy
Society, Politics & Law

Uncanny valley: why we find human-like robots and dolls so creepy

...become more realistic, we will also become more sensitive and will always be able to tell that something is not right. However, we’re certainly not there yet, and we could eventually find that the uncanny valley effect was an artefact of this particular period in the history of artificial humans, when representations were clearly distinguishable from human. For some,...
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