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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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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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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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Northern Ireland Science Festival 2022: Tackling BAME Disparities in STEM Education
Miscellaneous

Northern Ireland Science Festival 2022: Tackling BAME Disparities in STEM Education

...University, James Uhomoibhi, Lecturer in Engineering and Head of the Mixed Augment and Virtual Reality Research Laboratory at Ulster University and Osas Omoigiade, Associate Lecturer at The Open University and CEO and founder of Deep. Meta. [Tackling BAME Disparities in STEM Education event] This event took place as part of the 2022 Northern Ireland Science Festival....
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Genealogy: Your Family Tree
History & The Arts

Genealogy: Your Family Tree

...research. Jenny Adams-Barbaro found the Jewish Genealogical Society of Great Britain was invaluable. For others, the National Archives is a good place to start. Genuki has some great guidelines on how to get started in geneology. If you need to search outside the UK, Ancestry.com has a powerful search engine broken down by country. Cyndi's List has over 115,000 genealogy...
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Systems explained by Peter Checkland
Money & Business

Systems explained by Peter Checkland

...to management problem solving which is now used and taught world-wide. Checkland, originally from Birmingham, studied chemistry at Oxford in the 1950's and worked as a technologist and then a manager for ICI fibres. But when he made the move from research to management he found that little existed in the way of training and preparation for his new role. Transcript...
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