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Understanding Female Genital Mutilation and its impact across the lifespan podcast
Health, Sports & Psychology

Understanding Female Genital Mutilation and its impact across the lifespan podcast

...community workers, commissioners, and the wider public. It enables a level of awareness and understanding about this hidden illegal practice, the implications for the people affected, how it can be prevented, key educational requirements for professionals and the gaps in service provision across the UK and Ireland that need to be addressed, with sign posting to further...
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How are social workers portrayed in the media?
Languages

How are social workers portrayed in the media?

...prize winners announced at the BASW conference. There’s also the Transparency Project which aims to make family court reporting clearer. What we need now is a soap opera with a social worker as a main character to move TV dramas on from the child catcher-as-plot-device trope! This article was originally published on the Community Care website. Read the original article....
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Will a new European law mean YouTube has to monitor your uploads?
Society, Politics & Law

Will a new European law mean YouTube has to monitor your uploads?

...communications, deleting users’ online expression effectively curtails democratic participation and opportunities to seek and impart information online. Why Extend the AVSM Directive? The first reason lawmakers want this change, obviously, is to fight dangerous content online. Given current concerns about terrorism, hate speech, and incitement to violence, few people...
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Earth from above, 18th Century style
History & The Arts

Earth from above, 18th Century style

...communicate an utterly new experience to the reader. Lunardi published volumes of letters; as Clare Brant has pointed out, the conventions of the epistolatory form invited readers to relive the sensations of the author in their imagination. Thomas Baldwin, another early balloonist who hired Lunardi’s balloon for an ascent over Chester in 1785, inscribed a long book...
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Intuitive eating: a new relationship with food, or another fad diet?
OpenLearn Ireland

Intuitive eating: a new relationship with food, or another fad diet?

...communicate with each other. When you get anxious or nervous your brain sends a signal to your stomach and your heart and that’s when you feel your heart rate increase and experience an uneasiness in your stomach. There is a biological reason why dieting is so difficult. Your brain is pre-wired to seek out rewards and pleasure, and what’s more rewarding than your...
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Volunteering with a personal or professional focus
Education & Development

Volunteering with a personal or professional focus

...community or another organisation, or develop new skills and knowledge. It can also be a way to make sense of experiences you may have had in your personal life and use them for good. Others volunteer within their current workplace for the benefit of their co-workers. Below, be inspired by five colleagues whose volunteering has a professional, but also often a very...
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Religion and Violence
History & The Arts

Religion and Violence

...communal violence between Hindus and Muslims in India. It is also likely that the situations that engender such violence will persist, and new ones may arise in the future. A key question though is how far is such violence really about religion? This article and video explore this problem, suggesting some ways in which we can look at particular situations of violent...
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Mizuki Shigeru: An appreciation
History & The Arts

Mizuki Shigeru: An appreciation

...community of the region. For the rest of his life, Mizuki Shigeru sought out folk customs and beliefs from every corner of Japan, and would eventually title one of his many autobiographies “A Non Non Life.” While “non non” can mean “aimless” or even “drunken” in colloquial Japanese, it's obvious that Mizuki felt a deep connection to the Japanese spirit...
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