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Methods in Motion: The social psychology of citizenship
Health, Sports & Psychology

Methods in Motion: The social psychology of citizenship

...thinking about contemporary politics, citizenship appears to be a key concept. It is a concept that has proven to be especially valuable, particularly due to the fact that it is open enough to capture diverse types of political action from equally diverse political actors. Analyses of sexual, multicultural, and feminist citizenship, among many others, point to the...
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Virtual murder: Just a game?
History & The Arts

Virtual murder: Just a game?

...think that it is what happens in real life that matters, and it does not really matter what we make-believe. Children do things in games of make-believe that would be terrible if they did them in real life: shooting Indians, operating without anaesthetic, sinking boats and so on. We would not really wring the neck of our line-manager, even if we might relieve our stress...
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The dog beyond the mirror: Experiments with dog consciousness
Health, Sports & Psychology

The dog beyond the mirror: Experiments with dog consciousness

...thinking about it for a moment. This means that dogs have self-consciousness. But the problem in science is that ideas and assumptions must be demonstrated. It is not enough for someone to have an inkling of something for it to be considered a scientific fact. Self-awareness, or self-consciousness, has been studied mainly by examining the responses of animals and children...
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From a distance
Society, Politics & Law

From a distance

...think about where you are standing. You have a huge responsibility on your shoulder. Umut: I really like the workshops accompanying the piece where you ask audiences to take an ID sized photograph as they are viewing the pictures to register their reaction to the story and the images. You mentioned that for many there is a strong immediate reaction of shock. You call this...
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Climate of fear: culture of hope
Languages

Climate of fear: culture of hope

...think about our relationship with the environment. To change the way we think about all this, we first need to change the way we represent it. Transcript We’ll come back to this in a moment. But before that, let’s take an example of a different sort of environmental challenge. The Covid crisis that has blighted the first few years of the 2020s highlighted one of the...
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Psychological drama: Writing fictional crime drama for a forensic psychology course
Health, Sports & Psychology

Psychological drama: Writing fictional crime drama for a forensic psychology course

...think of if someone mentions fictional detectives and crime dramas. More Raymond Chandler and Humphrey Bogart than Jo Nesbo and Patricia Cornwell; a clue, perhaps, as to my lack of experience with contemporary crime fiction. But I'm writing a course on forensic psychology that will follow a fictional investigation, and cannot have Philip Marlowe wandering across the same...
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The role of business development in AstrobiologyOU
Science, Maths & Technology

The role of business development in AstrobiologyOU

...thinking, how to ask good questions and to look for the big picture among details and leads, how to be a critical thinker and how to write well. I also learned how to collaborate with people from different backgrounds and with different expertise, and how to manage projects, both in terms of time, for example if I needed to use a particular experimental facility that was...
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Care before profit: working as a cleaner in a care home during the Covid-19 pandemic
Society, Politics & Law

Care before profit: working as a cleaner in a care home during the Covid-19 pandemic

...think to be quite honest the management started to want rid of me. Even my daughter said you can’t be an unofficial union rep mum because you’re not protected.” Jacky also spoke about the conditions in the care home and the impact COVID-19 had in increasing isolation and in their treatment of residents: “I did feel awfully sorry for the residents because what was...
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