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What is child-led research and why is it important?
Education & Development

What is child-led research and why is it important?

...social research into a topic that inspires you. Your research will go beyond what is already known and what is available in books or online etc. It will be you creating new knowledge. You will think of a topic you want to explore, create a question you want to answer, decide how to get information to help you answer it, get the information, then analyse it and tell other...
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How can the arts improve health and wellbeing?
History & The Arts

How can the arts improve health and wellbeing?

...social benefits of engaging with the arts, which has a knock-on effect on health and wellbeing. Wellbeing goes far beyond our personal health, and includes our environment, diet, activities, finances, relationships, jobs, skills, and emotions. For many people, mental and physical health are related to social aspects such as loneliness. Bringing people together via the...
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Has Twitter's role as a political influence been overstated?
Digital & Computing

Has Twitter's role as a political influence been overstated?

...social justice issues such as police shootings, domestic violence, and sexual harassment have been recognised and given a public platform; but so have their deniers. Therefore, whether Twitter holds the potential for social justice is an open and complex question: to explore it we apply two different conceptualisations of misrecognition to the #metoo campaign. The #metoo...
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Do sperm whales speak with local accents?
Science, Maths & Technology

Do sperm whales speak with local accents?

...social process. We acquire cultural habits from our social circles and importantly by not being exposed to the way other groups do the same thing. So in order for behavioural differences to be culture, they need to be socially learned. Social learning is again a process we now know exist in many of the species we suspect have culture. Culture can also be a hindrance to...
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Methods in Motion: Introducing Methods in Motion
Society, Politics & Law

Methods in Motion: Introducing Methods in Motion

...social life. Yet we at CCIG would argue that researchers must go beyond meeting the intensified demand for new methods. Methods are important because what we know is changed by how we know it. Furthermore, the reasons why someone uses a particular method are linked to their wider ends and means; what makes useful knowledge in that specific field. Increasingly, the...
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Is being a student good for your mental health?
Health, Sports & Psychology

Is being a student good for your mental health?

...social and educational benefits that go with it. This vulnerability does not seem to be linked to the type of person who chooses to go to university as, in general, graduates enjoy better mental health than non-graduates (HEFCE, 2017). So it seems likely that there is something about the student experience that is destabilising for a significant number of individuals. Two...
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Diversity, migrant entrepreneurship and socio-economic inclusion
Money & Business

Diversity, migrant entrepreneurship and socio-economic inclusion

...social factors that perpetrate the existing differences in the entrepreneurship activities of migrants and non-migrants. In proposing strategies and solutions that sustain entrepreneurial success of migrant groups, policy-makers need to support the economic role as well as the social inclusion role that migrant enterprises have and can have within regions and countries....
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A scenario on e-professionalism for nurses
Health, Sports & Psychology

A scenario on e-professionalism for nurses

...social media and the majority of organisations have social media, Internet or social network policies (Ryan, 2016). It is important to be able to assess, make decisions and know when to escalate concerns when viewing online behaviours of other professionals. Ryan (2019) discusses the A2A 3Cs (Awareness to Action: clarity, context and confirmability) process when making...
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