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Introduction to Green Social Prescribing — Mental Health and the Workplace Environment
Health, Sports & Psychology

Introduction to Green Social Prescribing — Mental Health and the Workplace Environment

...multiple shorter visits. What are the implications for workplace environments? To mention just a few: Green/environment and Health and Safety Union reps might liaise with social prescribing link workers in the area and invite them to talk to both employers and employees about their role. Workplaces might examine ways in which there could be greater direct/indirect...
Why smart leaders allow a bit of football frenzy
Money & Business

Why smart leaders allow a bit of football frenzy

...multiple ways to make up for this by embracing the tournament. According to Gallup’s 2017 global survey, the State of the Global Workplace, only 15% of full-time workers are truly engaged at work. Almost a quarter of employees surveyed by recruitment agency Adecco said they don’t think their employer tries to improve their happiness. And don’t expect paychecks to do...
Making sense of sudden mass deaths
Health, Sports & Psychology

Making sense of sudden mass deaths

...multiple countries at the same time. Locally and globally people are experiencing sudden mass death. Whilst the article below reflects on sudden, violent mass death, drawing largely on the experience of 9/11, many of the core messages apply to pandemics as well. People are likely to experience different forms of grief and communities may respond in variety of manners. And...
Porn licensing isn't the answer
Digital & Computing

Porn licensing isn't the answer

...multiple communication ports so they have adapted their approach using a technique known as traffic shaping. Skype still works, but any communication using the service would be given the lowest (almost unusable) priority on the network infrastructure. That means people could, in theory use Skype, but the quality of the connection is likely to render any chances of...
What is biomedicine?
Health, Sports & Psychology

What is biomedicine?

...multiple causes. Biomedicine has been a dynamic model and played a hugely important part in people’s understandings of health and illness and (perhaps for a majority of people in the UK today) their compliance with the system that supports biomedicine. Proponents of biomedicine suggest that it stands with many fantastic accomplishments: the reduction of high mortality...
Integrated education in Northern Ireland - or divide and sectarianism?
Society, Politics & Law

Integrated education in Northern Ireland - or divide and sectarianism?

...multiple number of entangled reasons why Northern Ireland continues to be a deeply divided society 15 years after the Belfast (Good Friday) Agreement. Northern Ireland, with only a population of 1.8 million has a complex and fragmented school structure but Government figures show that 93% of children in primary (4-11) and post-primary (11-18) schools attend either...
How can we design for resilience?
Science, Maths & Technology

How can we design for resilience?

...multiple sources of energy and water given diversity is required for redundancy – or having back-up in case of system element failure(s). Dynamic balance All the sub-systems making up the house that feeds are constantly fluctuating. Solar energy and water supply are subject to the weather and climate which are becoming more extreme. Food crops sometimes thrive and...
How happiness is challenging GDP as the measure of a country’s health
Society, Politics & Law

How happiness is challenging GDP as the measure of a country’s health

...multiple indicators of life quality in order to assess progress. We use a theoretical approach devised initially by the Nobel-prize winning economist Amartya Sen, with subsequent additions by political philosopher Martha Nussbaum. This helps us think about quality of life not just in terms of objective accomplishments but by looking at more subjective qualities like...