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How happiness is challenging GDP as the measure of a country’s health
Society, Politics & Law

How happiness is challenging GDP as the measure of a country’s health

...research conducted between 2015 and 2017. Norway, Denmark, Iceland and Switzerland followed in quick succession at the top, while Burundi, Central African Republic, South Sudan, Tanzania and Yemen languished at the bottom. The nations that top the usual measure of a country’s health – its Gross Domestic Product, or GDP, which shows overall economic output – was much...
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Everybody's looking for love
Health, Sports & Psychology

Everybody's looking for love

...research explores the views and experiences of women with learning disabilities on sexual relationships and as part of my PhD I gave them a platform to talk openly about this taboo subject. I interviewed 16 women with mild to moderate learning disabilities who were members of Stars in the Sky, a pioneering dating agency that you might recognise from the Channel 4’s...
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Influential women scientists in chemistry
Science, Maths & Technology

Influential women scientists in chemistry

...research now extends into the determination of the structures of very large molecules in biological systems. In early studies the problems of solving the structures of molecules in living systems were immense, because of their sheer size. Dorothy Hodgkin was a key early pioneer in such studies. After graduating from Oxford, she went to Cambridge and studied
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A matter of life and death: inequalities in healthcare for Black, Asian and minority ethnic communities
Health, Sports & Psychology

A matter of life and death: inequalities in healthcare for Black, Asian and minority ethnic communities

...research is needed to explain and explore these racial inequities. However, the persistent inequalities are linked to the racism and discrimination that Black and minority ethnic people experience in wider society and the systemic and institutional racism in health and social care services, education and the criminal justice system, to name a few. Stereotypes abound...
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Is Anthropology of Religion Racist?
History & The Arts

Is Anthropology of Religion Racist?

...research method, it notably depends on an important idea. One can only engage in such an act if one is certain that how one thinks now and how they thought then is the same. That, in short, there is a common cognitive architecture or chain of reasoning that links the two. Racism is based in the contrary assumption of absolute cognitive difference. [ Aztec warriors led by...
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Working mothers in Scotland's railways
Society, Politics & Law

Working mothers in Scotland's railways

...children, so working while having a family was challenging. There were no flexible working policies at this time to help mothers balance work and family commitments, and so they often had to rely on family for childcare. If a woman had been working when she became pregnant, she was entitled to some form of Statutory Maternity Pay. The Statutory Maternity Pay regulations...
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Panic buying and how to stop it
Health, Sports & Psychology

Panic buying and how to stop it

...children and family as well as personal needs and values. (Such as when to get up for work, when to get out of the house, when and how you pick up your children, which side of the bed you sleep in, and what brands you buy in your shopping). Norms are useful because they allow us to function without having to think too much about the reasons why we do things. Once a norm...
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Prison Abolition in Question(s): Part One
Education & Development

Prison Abolition in Question(s): Part One

...centre of abolitionist thought. Placing people in prison to punish them for what they have done has been repeatedly proven NOT to work and, in fact, frequently stimulates rather than calms violence. If heightened public protection and reduction in violence and harm is what we hope to achieve – particularly for women, children and other vulnerable groups – then we...
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