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Heart of a heartless world, soul of soulless conditions
History & The Arts

Heart of a heartless world, soul of soulless conditions

...work. (Ovid’s Metamorphoses (1st century CE) is studied in Myth in the Greek and Roman Worlds.) Ovid presents the reader with a numinous landscape in which anything can happen and where human beings might suffer traumatic transformations into wild animals or find themselves rooted to the spot as trees. The fascinating thing about such 'fantasy fiction' is that it...
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How is a University obsession with teenagers hurting part-time students?
Education & Development

How is a University obsession with teenagers hurting part-time students?

...work commitments. Most are women, often juggling caring responsibilities alongside studying. Many were the first in their families to embark on higher education, and 22% reported disabilities or long-term health impairments. Many respondents managing mental health problems, medication, hospital visits and declining mobility viewed part-time study as a lifeline. Only 15%...
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Sea level rise in Happisburgh, UK
Nature & Environment

Sea level rise in Happisburgh, UK

...working with nature’ is also seen as an important strategy. Since the mid-1990s DEFRA has been producing Shoreline Management Plans (SMP) for areas of coastline in England and Wales. These are controversial as they sometimes take a strategy of non-intervention. There are three strategies that can be used when managing sea level rise: Non-intervention Managed retreat...
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Riding the carousel or partners for life: what makes an effective coach–athlete relationship in tennis?
Health, Sports & Psychology

Riding the carousel or partners for life: what makes an effective coach–athlete relationship in tennis?

...worked with four coaches since Wimbledon last year. There has been speculation on this high turnover of support particularly when we see that the coach who supported her to victory in the US Open, Andrew Richardson, did not have his contract renewed following the tournament. Indeed, more recently following the parting of ways from her last coach in April of this year,...
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Telling Tales: what is happening on police Facebook sites?
Society, Politics & Law

Telling Tales: what is happening on police Facebook sites?

...work. With the right investment, it is an exciting opportunity to allow communities and police to work effectively together...There are some obvious positives for the police arising from communicating with communities via social media, including that it allows them to directly post a story which bypasses the ‘frame’ it might be given by traditional news media....
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Enabling parents to improve children’s services: Walking the Walk in Evelina London Children’s Hospital
Health, Sports & Psychology

Enabling parents to improve children’s services: Walking the Walk in Evelina London Children’s Hospital

...Working with Evelina London Children’s Hospital The walk-through involved two bereaved parents (recruited by the hospital) and two experienced Walking the Walk leaders. When in clinical areas, they were joined by two senior clinicians (Nurse specialist from the Child Death Review Team and Paediatric Palliative Care Consultant). As they walked from the ‘front door’...
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Think you’re better at driving than most? How psychological biases are keeping our roads unsafe
Health, Sports & Psychology

Think you’re better at driving than most? How psychological biases are keeping our roads unsafe

...work if people think the messaging is relevant to them and choose to change their behaviour. But psychological research shows that many people are overconfident in their driving abilities and think it’s ‘normal’ to drive recklessly and break road laws. The number of people who are killed or seriously injured on UK roads has stayed reasonably static since 2012. Five...
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Climate change and the built environment
Science, Maths & Technology

Climate change and the built environment

...worked in the construction sector as a structural engineer. I enjoyed my work, but there was something that increasingly bugged me. While the industry’s focus was on the capital cost of a building to the exclusion of operational costs, for carbon emissions it was the other way round - operational carbon was starting to be seen as important, but no-one was talking about...
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