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Child spirituality
Education & Development

Child spirituality

...manage the adversities of life and build emotional resilience. The success of Harry Potter may also indicate the way children need to engage with magic, mystery, terror and fantasy Hay & Nye, writing from an educational research perspective, suggest that spirituality is innate in children. The features they identify in children's spirituality are presented by Margaret...
Feeling Stuck in your Job or Career? The ACT Matrix may be the Tool you Need
Health, Sports & Psychology

Feeling Stuck in your Job or Career? The ACT Matrix may be the Tool you Need

...management, or being more irritable at home. We can end up spending more time ‘in our heads’: worrying about the future and dwelling on the past, perhaps incapable of taking action towards positive change. It is important to recognise that life can feel chaotic and unpredictable; many situations do not have a clear right or wrong solution. However, Acceptance and...
Betty Luckham: celebrating the activism of a pioneering Windrush woman
History & The Arts

Betty Luckham: celebrating the activism of a pioneering Windrush woman

...managed workspaces on two sites, and provides support and training for small businesses. Cariocca also sponsored the research which led to the establishment of the vibrant Louise Da-Cocodia Trust Saturday School. Betty continues to be an influential advocate of the school. Betty’s wide-ranging community involvement included her support for women and families through the...
Closing the awarding gap: practical actions to support Black and minority ethnic students
Education & Development

Closing the awarding gap: practical actions to support Black and minority ethnic students

...management teams) can make a huge difference. Practical actions from recent research Below is an accessible, thematic summary of recommendations from selected studies. Each theme contains the core steps research shows can help close awarding gaps. 1. Make expectations clear – especially for unfamiliar tasks Many students who feel less socially ‘at home’ in higher...
'Bad Apples' or Organisational Cultures?
Education & Development

'Bad Apples' or Organisational Cultures?

...management guru William Edward Deming captured this notion through his 85/15 rule, which says that 85 percent of the problems in any organization are system-related while only 15 percent are worker-related’ (Davis, 2016). Does the reliance on the ‘bad apples’ explanation reflect the challenge that Critical Race Theory illuminates and the concept of ‘institutional...
Black History Month 2022 talks
Education & Development

Black History Month 2022 talks

...Manager for Diversity and Inclusion at the Royal Academy of Engineering, discusses his book, Anti-Racism in Higher Education: An Action Guide for Change. Dr Verma will endeavour to constructively disrupt the higher education sector through ambitious actions and collective, participatory and evidence-informed responses to racism. The talk will consider a roadmap for senior...
Opening up history: religion and politics in the Elizabethan era
History & The Arts

Opening up history: religion and politics in the Elizabethan era

...do you know that?’. 12. What are you planning to work on next? Having done two fairly narrowly-focused books, I want to broaden out and write an account of the whole of Elizabeth I’s reign. There are endless biographies of Elizabeth, but surprisingly enough there’s no book giving a straightforward political history of the reign in a single, manageable volume....
Exploring Homer’s Odyssey
History & The Arts

Exploring Homer’s Odyssey

...Introduction - This free course introduces Homer’s ancient Greek epic poem, the Odyssey, which tells of Odysseus’ long journey home after fighting in the Trojan War, and his eventual reunion with his wife Penelope. Odysseus is famous for his cunning and his courage, and for the exploits he undertakes on his travels; meanwhile Penelope is renowned for her patience and...
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