2,846 search results
Challenging ideas in mental health
Health, Sports & Psychology

Challenging ideas in mental health

...research and practice. Perkins dismisses the word ‘distress’ as being too inclusive. Her argument is that everyone experiences distress but not everyone experiences ‘madness’, and to claim they do is to diminish and trivialise the latter experience. She suggests that service users should ‘embrace mad pride’ and celebrate their differences. Rose accepts that...
View course Challenging ideas in mental health
Level 2: Intermediate 8 hrs
Infection and immunity
Health, Sports & Psychology

Infection and immunity

...children – lose their lives. In the 1960s, it was widely believed that the threat to health from infectious diseases would be overcome by advances in methods of prevention and treatment. Unfortunately these predictions have proved to be optimistic because of the rapidly increasing threat from ‘emerging infectious diseases’. This first session of the course presents...
View course Infection and immunity
Level 1: Introductory 12 hrs
What impact are tighter immigration restrictions having on the UK's curry houses?
Money & Business

What impact are tighter immigration restrictions having on the UK's curry houses?

...children living in certain areas of the UK as their second and third generation Asian school friends. In the London borough of Tower Hamlets for example – which is home to a large Bangladeshi community – local councillors played a significant role in influencing the content of school dinners. As early as the 1980s these lunches often included Asian vegetarian dishes,...
View article What impact are tighter immigration restrictions having on the UK's curry houses?
Article 5 mins
Reeta Chakrabarti on language and culture
Languages

Reeta Chakrabarti on language and culture

...children from all over the world there, most of them part of the Indian diaspora, but not all. Er, and I loved it, I really loved it. I loved the fact that there were different nationalities, different languages, we all spoke English but there was a certain amount of Bengali as well, and for me it was a nice buffer really between, you know, leaving the UK and arriving in...
View audio Reeta Chakrabarti on language and culture
Audio 5 mins
Why is the UK government proposing to bring 1950s values to online pornography?
Society, Politics & Law

Why is the UK government proposing to bring 1950s values to online pornography?

...children from accessing pornography. Age verification may be defendable if it could be done without submitting sensitive information. But it seems likely that it will involve registering a credit card with pornography platforms, increasing the number of sources holding information about our online viewing habits. This would create another point of weakness that could...
View article Why is the UK government proposing to bring 1950s values to online pornography?
Article 5 mins
15 facts about number 15
Education & Development

15 facts about number 15

...children and young people, and the alternative solutions to this, in this mini documentary with accompanying article, Why we should abolish imprisonment for children and young people. 15: In Hebrew, the number 15 is spelled differently This is because the two words, which usually make up fifteen, ten (yodh) and five (heh), when combined, make up one of the Jewish words...
View article 15 facts about number 15
Article 10 mins
Why Rosetta is the greatest space mission of our lifetime
Science, Maths & Technology

Why Rosetta is the greatest space mission of our lifetime

...children about their life ambitions in the hope they might want to follow me on a science career path. My main words of advice to these children are similar to those that most stuck with me: aim high. I wanted to be an astronaut, so maybe I haven’t made it there (yet), but being a space scientist in such amazing times, when we are attempting to land on the surface of a...
View article Why Rosetta is the greatest space mission of our lifetime
Article 10 mins
Rio 2016: Green pools, drug cheats, sexism and nationality - A short reading list
Health, Sports & Psychology

Rio 2016: Green pools, drug cheats, sexism and nationality - A short reading list

...Centre for Olympic Studies of Canada's Western University, takles aim at "sex-testing": The IOC's most recent policy, quietly adopted in January of this year, focuses on the level of testosterone in females. The IOC has decided that one single determining factor, testosterone, is the latest and greatest marker for determining sex, even though research has shown there is...
View article Rio 2016: Green pools, drug cheats, sexism and nationality - A short reading list
Article 5 mins