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The 2001 Glasgow NHS Medical Secretaries Grading Dispute
Society, Politics & Law

The 2001 Glasgow NHS Medical Secretaries Grading Dispute

...skills in trade union organising, in building campaigns and solidarity across the trade union movement. These skills and their experiences changed these women and the outcome of the dispute. Relevant Sources and Further Reading https://www.heraldscotland.com/news/12174549.hospital-chaos-looms-in-dispute-medical-secretaries-to-ballot-on-strike-action-over-wages/ Accessed...
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Should communities be expected to help in death, dying and bereavement?
Health, Sports & Psychology

Should communities be expected to help in death, dying and bereavement?

...Skills for Everyone) and the Omega Course, where people come together to think about their own lives and death and learn how to support others. Evaluation of these courses has shown that they reduce fears around death and dying, help people to consider and plan for their own death, and increase their confidence to engage with friends, family and community members who are...
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Feeling Stuck in your Job or Career? The ACT Matrix may be the Tool you Need
Health, Sports & Psychology

Feeling Stuck in your Job or Career? The ACT Matrix may be the Tool you Need

...skill of mindfulness can help us to notice the opportunities we may miss when we are caught up in our thoughts and feelings. You can learn to just simply notice the thought is there and stop fighting with it. For more on mindfulness, please see Five Reasons Why You Should Care About Mindfulness. Active Learning what matters most to us and then pursuing these things, no...
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Katherine Johnson: NASA mathematician and much-needed role model
Science, Maths & Technology

Katherine Johnson: NASA mathematician and much-needed role model

...skills and talents can take us as high as we wish to fly.It is stories like Johnson’s that need to be told. Where are our role models today? Where are the women who will inspire our students to become scientists and engineers? As an example, in 2019 the BBC published a list of 100 trailblazing women, of which only four were scientists and just one an engineer. Johnson...
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Attachment in the early years
Education & Development

Attachment in the early years

...study. This OpenLearn course is an adapted extract from the Open University course E219 Psychology of childhood and youth...Attachment in the early years: Learning outcomes - After studying this course, you should be able to: describe attachment classifications and how they are assessed describe the features of caregiving that influence attachment, and the significance of...
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Virtual murder: Just a game?
History & The Arts

Virtual murder: Just a game?

...study of hundreds of research papers published between 2005 and 2013. They concluded that ‘The research demonstrates a consistent relation between violent video game use and increases in aggressive behaviour, aggressive cognitions and aggressive affect, and decreases in pro-social behaviour, empathy and sensitivity to aggression’. In response, more than 200 academics...
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Do our clothes shopping habits require retail therapy?
Nature & Environment

Do our clothes shopping habits require retail therapy?

...study at Coventry University I am exploring female attitudes towards the notion of buying fewer garments. I have found, unsurprisingly, that anticipating, browsing for, choosing, buying and wearing clothes provides women with a great deal of happiness. Motivated by pleasure and variety seeking to an extent, but also by the desire to measure up to social expectations,...
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Weighing up the reliability of expert criminal evidence
Society, Politics & Law

Weighing up the reliability of expert criminal evidence

...study involving 500 participants in a variety of forensic disciplines found ‘questionable communication practices’ were common and that ‘little information’ was provided to support their ‘absolute conclusions’. Other studies have also found problems with the ambiguous use of language, such as Sunde who examined multiple expert reports and concluded digital...
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