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Detecting fake images
Society, Politics & Law

Detecting fake images

...social media message with a beautiful image from a friend. The image shows a cute little girl happily hugging a large lion, as shown below. It is a touching image but isn’t it too dangerous to hug a wild animal? Would you let your daughter take part in a photo like this? I normally wouldn’t, but I would this time as I know the girl was not really hugging the lion. It...
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Should we educate prisoners?
Society, Politics & Law

Should we educate prisoners?

...social rights denied to prisoners, the right to education is inequitable to what is available to their peers in the community. Education as a public good According to the Ministry of Justice, "research evidence strongly suggests that education in prison can help people desist (move away) from offending". The UK has one of the highest rates of re-offending in the Western...
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The ageing brain: 'use it or lose it'
Health, Sports & Psychology

The ageing brain: 'use it or lose it'

...social – meet with people you already know and also with those who you may not know. Engage with anything you like and you are likely to engage with again in the future. As with any exercise, if we wish for the exercise to have effect on us we need to engage with the exercise repeatedly and we are more likely to repeat something we enjoy doing. Research also indicates...
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Is America better than this?
Society, Politics & Law

Is America better than this?

...socialism’ to deliberately sabotage normal political discourse. As Abraham Lincoln warned, "a house divided cannot stand".When Joe Biden is inaugurated as the 46th President two days after MLK day, he may well give a speech articulating his own dream of harmony, a desire to shift away from Trump’s American carnage. But this crisis has been years, generations, in the...
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Why Design Education needs Black and Women of Colour Feminist Thinking
Education & Development

Why Design Education needs Black and Women of Colour Feminist Thinking

...social inequalities and racial injustice as highlighted by the Black Lives Matter movement. Yet recent calls to decolonise design highlight how design continues to be shaped by patriarchal, Eurocentric and neoliberal thinking, especially through design education. In October 2020 I was invited by The Open University to give a presentation on my PhD research, as part of...
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Sibling rivalry: An important ingredient in sporting success?
Health, Sports & Psychology

Sibling rivalry: An important ingredient in sporting success?

...social issues all identified as being important contributors to athletic development. Research shows that families play an important role in introducing and supporting athletes throughout the various stages of their career, but the question that has rarely been asked is - how does the structure of the family influence sports participation? In this article I will be...
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Coaching others to coach Badge icon
Health, Sports & Psychology

Coaching others to coach

...interactions. And so power relations are also evident at a broader social level, societal level, so that one can think about everybody being positioned within society in relation to power. And those relations are shifting. PERSON 2 Power permeates everything. It permeates everything that we do. I think it permeates every relationship we have with somebody else. There are...
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Level 2: Intermediate 24 hrs
Introducing environmental decision making
Nature & Environment

Introducing environmental decision making

...Social pressures affect everyone to varying degrees and the approval or disapproval of friends and colleagues may be more important to the decision maker than being ‘right’ every time. Political beliefs also vary and people will rank differently, for example, individual and social gains from a situation. Each individual develops personal beliefs and values, including...
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Level 3: Advanced 24 hrs