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Try your hand at travel writing
History & The Arts

Try your hand at travel writing

...family or friends. To search for adventure and to open your mind to new cultures and experiences. To visit or revisit a place that has personal significance for you. [Mourne Mountains, Co Down, Ireland; Hiker Beside The Mourne Wall On The Slopes Of Slieve Bearnagh] A hiker beside the Mourne Wall on the slopes of Slieve Bearnagh, Co Down, Ireland. Next steps Now try...
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Methods in Motion: Developing psychosocially informed self-help on gender
Health, Sports & Psychology

Methods in Motion: Developing psychosocially informed self-help on gender

...families are, and the impact this has on seven-year-olds Robert Webb publicising How Not To Be a Boy, about the damage caused by dominant ideals of masculinity John Lewis announcing that it won’t label children’s clothes ‘for boys’ and ‘for girls’, with resulting backlash a couple threatening to sue their child's school for allowing a ‘male’ child to wear...
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Extending your learning with postgraduate skills
Education & Development

Extending your learning with postgraduate skills

...family, this is the one I have worked the hardest at and am getting the most out of. In particular, this is the only one which has really helped me gain the skills of analysis, evaluation, and criticality which allow me to present well-founded opinions." - Claire "I hadn't studied for 30 years and didn't know whether I could write academically. I have had to work hard on...
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What does scientific evidence tell us about making our homes energy efficient?
Money & Business

What does scientific evidence tell us about making our homes energy efficient?

...family is different: some people are home all day, some people are rarely in; others, such as those who have chronic illnesses, need different internal temperatures to those who don’t. Closing your curtains may save lots of heat, but the number and type of windows, location of radiators, and when they are opened or closed will greatly influence this saving on an...
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‘Life’s good – it’s the disease that’s the problem’: supporting someone living with a terminal diagnosis
Health, Sports & Psychology

‘Life’s good – it’s the disease that’s the problem’: supporting someone living with a terminal diagnosis

...family to support me with caring duties. Many found it a privilege to be asked and Alan enjoyed having the company of those he loved. Both of us had counselling because we went into anticipatory grief. I had never heard of the phrase. Apparently it’s common but no one ever talks about it. It’s when you know the loss or change is coming and you begin grieving it before...
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Teaching reading: what are our long term goals?
Education & Development

Teaching reading: what are our long term goals?

...families; Dr Jones (University of Nottingham) who is researching inner-city adult reading groups and Dr Kucirkova (Open University) who will be sharing the conceptual work on reading for pleasure with children’s digital books. The day, chaired by Professor Cremin also involves an exploration of research undertaken and/or funded by key UK literacy charities, including...
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Twin Town and Welsh cinema in the late 1990s
History & The Arts

Twin Town and Welsh cinema in the late 1990s

...family, mining community, matriarch – and subjected them to poetic scrutiny through the filter of the leading character’s obsession with key aspects of American culture. Again, an older Wales is seen as passing away and a struggle to imagine a new one into being is taking place, this time a struggle that takes place against the backdrop of an all-pervasive American...
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Ordinary dying and the Queen: Reflections on a case study
Health, Sports & Psychology

Ordinary dying and the Queen: Reflections on a case study

...family present, and in a location the Queen enjoyed being in. Dying as a social event It is often said in palliative care that dying is as much a social, as it is a medical, event. If so, then we might also want to also draw on the social sciences and medical humanities to raise some questions about what ‘ordinary dying’ might mean. For example, social scientists...
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