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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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Can you manage a supply chain?
Money & Business

Can you manage a supply chain?

...works in both ways. Demand increases generate precisely the same human behaviour, but now we have shortage of stock and huge upswings in ordering instead of over-supply. In fact, one of the biggest avoidable causes of the bullwhip effect is where sellers - retailers - mainly, decide to embark on promotions that deliberately increase demand in the short term. For many...
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The man behind Matilda – what Roald Dahl was really like
History & The Arts

The man behind Matilda – what Roald Dahl was really like

...Working for Love, which was released in 1989. Tessa’s “semi-autobiographical” book describes her childhood bitterness after all the family tragedies and her desperate longing for love. In a 2012 interview she declared that “daddy gave joy to millions of children. But I was dying inside” – accusing him of selfishness and egocentric behaviour. Dahl is also...
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How yoga conquered Britain: the feminist legacy of Yogini Sunita and Kailash Puri
Health, Sports & Psychology

How yoga conquered Britain: the feminist legacy of Yogini Sunita and Kailash Puri

...work and dedication of a diverse group of unusual individuals. There were competing ideas of yoga, different forms of practice, and many different points at which yoga entered British culture, as my book Yoga in Britain explores. But there are two women whose dedication and enthusiasm played a huge part in popularising yoga in Britain and whose legacies have sadly been...
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Fake news during COVID-19
Science, Maths & Technology

Fake news during COVID-19

...worked on epidemic Vibrio cholerae strains, Dr Bik conducted research on the microbiomes of humans and marine mammals for many years. Writing on her blog ScienceIntegrityDigest, Twitter, and PubPeer, she is an expert in detecting inappropriately duplicated or manipulated photographic images and plagiarised text in biomedical literature. Her investigative work has been...
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