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Feeling Stuck in your Job or Career? The ACT Matrix may be the Tool you Need
Health, Sports & Psychology

Feeling Stuck in your Job or Career? The ACT Matrix may be the Tool you Need

...research evidence gathered that supports ACT as beneficial and effective (APA Presidential Task Force on Evidence-Based Practice in Psychology, 2006). Russ Harris (see below) and others have also actively promoted ACT as being valid not only in clinical and therapy settings, but also within the workplace and personal life (Harris, 2006). Although ACT has the word...
Exploring Europa
Science, Maths & Technology

Exploring Europa

...research in AstrobiologyOU. We run laboratory simulation experiments and computer models that simulate the conditions found in the deep oceans and icy layers of icy moons like Europa. We study forms of ice and salt in the laboratory that exist only under extremely low temperatures. These icy minerals don’t form naturally on Earth, but could be important components of...
Will the next Secretary-General of the United Nations be a woman?
Society, Politics & Law

Will the next Secretary-General of the United Nations be a woman?

...researchers have shown, women make up 21% of ambassadors and permanent representatives, but these percentages drop significantly, from 53% in Canada to 0.75% in Russia and 0% in Belarus, Fiji, North Korea and Togo. On a more practical level, women require mentorship and should be given the chance to manage their work-life balance effectively. Though women candidates must...
Betty Luckham: celebrating the activism of a pioneering Windrush woman
History & The Arts

Betty Luckham: celebrating the activism of a pioneering Windrush woman

...research which led to the establishment of the vibrant Louise Da-Cocodia Trust Saturday School. Betty continues to be an influential advocate of the school. Betty’s wide-ranging community involvement included her support for women and families through the Abasindi Cooperative. This organisation was based in the Moss Side People’s Centre. Though it never described...
Witches in popular culture
History & The Arts

Witches in popular culture

...researching these contrasting representations of the witch. Which witch (sorry!) does our popular culture currently favour? And can stories about the witch really be reclaimed as feminist parables? Transcript The witch was a recurring feature of horror film in the 1960s and 1970s. British folk horror films such as The Blood on Satan’s Claw (1971) and The Wicker Man...
Beyond the Babble: A conversation about the art of listening
Society, Politics & Law

Beyond the Babble: A conversation about the art of listening

...research and debates inviting participants to record personal thoughts and assumptions, stories and experiences, declarations and commitments or questions around individual and collective identity: Who am I? Who are we? How Can I act? Lucia: It could be something along the lines of ‘How do you identify yourself? What influences your identity? How and why has this...
Budget 2017: Instant reactions
Money & Business

Budget 2017: Instant reactions

...research, support for disruptive technologies, help with the high-speed broadband roll out and further transport projects to relieve local congestion. But the main announcements made today concern the country’s education and skills infrastructure. New funding will be made available to support the creation of 110 free schools. These will, controversially, include new...
Straen a phryder yn yr oes ddigidol: Ochr dywyll technoleg
Health, Sports & Psychology

Straen a phryder yn yr oes ddigidol: Ochr dywyll technoleg

...research publications. https://www.ofcom.org.uk/about-ofcom/latest/media/facts (accessed 18/5/2018) Seabrook, E. M., Kern, M. L., & Rickard, N. S. (2016). Social networking sites, depression, and anxiety: a systematic review. JMIR mental health, 3(4), e50 Seo, H.S., Jeong, E., Sungwon, C., Kwon, Y., Park, H. & Kim, Inseong (2017) Neurotransmitters in Young People with...