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Job Change and the Grief Cycle: The effects of losing our job or changing work role
Health, Sports & Psychology

Job Change and the Grief Cycle: The effects of losing our job or changing work role

...family and friends, many have had changes and loss within their work environment. This cycle of grief is relevant in managing change in times of uncertainty. Kubler-Ross’s model has been adapted in change management to explain what journey individuals can take if they are losing their job or having changes made where there is little or no control over the decisions...
Beethoven: The Expert View
History & The Arts

Beethoven: The Expert View

...family. His first music lessons were with his father, who is said to have been a harsh and cruel teacher. Despite this, Beethoven gave his first piano recital in Cologne at the age of 8. He continued with his studies, working as deputy court organist in Bonn at the age of 14 and then travelling to Vienna to give concerts in 1787, where he may have played to Mozart. In...
Discovering Ancient Greek and Latin
History & The Arts

Discovering Ancient Greek and Latin

...history as a language of literature begins not with the written word but with music and performance in the shape of Homer’s Iliad and Odyssey (eighth century BCE) and a great body of ‘lyric’ poetry performed at festivals and symposia (aristocratic drinking parties). At the same time it was also in daily use in Greek settlements across the Aegean sea, the coast of...
Volunteering with a personal or professional focus
Education & Development

Volunteering with a personal or professional focus

...family’s story to be shared to support the charity’s advocacy work. With Tommy’s, she has been providing parent voice on a panel to support the charity as it works to set up a research centre for premature birth. Although Michelle’s daughter, Audrey, is now four years old, Michelle is keen to carry on this work to try to improve services for people going through...
Can we live harmoniously with wildlife?
Nature & Environment

Can we live harmoniously with wildlife?

...family and that the tiger declared a man-eater and shot. I thought these were hardly demands that required protest. This was established protocol for when people were killed by wild cats. Things got worse the next day. The protests intensified, the range officer was beaten up and other forest officials were chased into the Mudumalai tiger reserve. The forest department...
Laibach and think of North Korea: The subversive political message of the Slovenian band
History & The Arts

Laibach and think of North Korea: The subversive political message of the Slovenian band

...history is necessary. In 1941, Slovenia was divided among Nazi Germany, Fascist Italy and Hungary. Under Nazi rule, Slovenians faced complete annihilation of their national identity: Slovene books and monuments were destroyed, and names, like that of Ljubljana, were Germanised. After the defeat of Nazi Germany, Slovenia became part of Yugoslavia. The partisan movement...
What does the AKP victory mean for Turkey?
Society, Politics & Law

What does the AKP victory mean for Turkey?

...history. The bombs appeared to have targeted a “Labour, Peace and Democracy” rally organised by opposition parties and leftist groups. No organisation has yet claimed responsibility for either attack, but the AKP government has tried to associate both with the PKK and other anti-government organisations, albeit with no evidence or proof. Besides the Kurds and the...
Blade Runner: What's the balance between science and fiction?
Science, Maths & Technology

Blade Runner: What's the balance between science and fiction?

...history of collaboration with medical researchers, surgeons, doctors and patients. Her video work (a collaboration with artist Helen Pynor), The Body is a Big Place (2011), was created in consultation with scientists from the Heart Foundation Research Centre at Griffith University. In the piece, which also screened at Science in the Cinema, a heart perfusion system was...