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Methods in Motion: Clashing loyalties
History & The Arts

Methods in Motion: Clashing loyalties

...working for the Special Operations Executive (SOE) during World War II, as well as ‘Commissars’ in the International Brigade during the Spanish Civil War, and as a Soviet agent in the regular army. Other papers on the artist Felicia Browne (the first British volunteer to be killed in Spain), on popular front literature, and on Communist Party intellectuals in the Cold...
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Methods in Motion: Inside Outsiders and Outside Insiders
Languages

Methods in Motion: Inside Outsiders and Outside Insiders

...work experience. My EU-funded research project Employing the Cultural Broker in the Governance of Migration and Integration, was exploring the dynamics of (dis)identification of front-line staff of migrant support and advocacy organisations with their clients and with migration politics. I was interested in moments of staff’s alignment and solidarity with clients, as...
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Methods in Motion: Developing psychosocially informed self-help on gender
Health, Sports & Psychology

Methods in Motion: Developing psychosocially informed self-help on gender

...working as a clinician with gender-diverse young people for over a decade, as well as conducting large-scale quantitative research with trans and queer people. In my therapeutic work and academic and activist studies, I’ve been focusing on non-binary communities. In the book we weave together feminist psychology and neuroscience, trans and queer scholarship,...
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Solving the care crisis with public investment
Society, Politics & Law

Solving the care crisis with public investment

...Working Paper No. 83, The Open University. • De Henau, Jérôme; Himmelweit, Susan and Perrons, Diane (2017). Investing in the Care Economy – Simulating employment effects by gender in countries in emerging economies. International Trade Union Confederation. • De Henau, Jérôme; Himmelweit, Susan, Lapniewska, Zofia; Perrons, Diane (2016). Investing in the Care...
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A quiet man, hounded: One person's experience of the UK's anti-homosexuality laws
History & The Arts

A quiet man, hounded: One person's experience of the UK's anti-homosexuality laws

...worked At the start of LGBT history month in February 2017, the government announced it would pardon 49,000 men of sexual offences for homosexuality. While this is an important nod to justice, it is also a reminder of everyday injustices suffered by LGBT people in Britain when it was still a crime to be gay. Nearly 50 years ago, in July 1967, the government voted to...
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Freedom of speech
History & The Arts

Freedom of speech

...work out where to draw the line between speech that causes offence that should be banned, and speech that causes offence that should be allowed. The second is to work out whether there really is a difference, in principle, between offence and harm. Some might say that any speech that gives offence should be banned. The implications of doing this would be draconian. Some...
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How is a bench helping improve mental health in Zimbabwe?
Health, Sports & Psychology

How is a bench helping improve mental health in Zimbabwe?

...work and can be integrated into the healthcare system.” The study adds to "mounting evidence" that community health workers working in routine care facilities can effectively deliver the psychological therapies sorely missing in many resource-poor countries, according to Vikram Patel, psychiatrist and professor at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine in...
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Teaching reading: what are our long term goals?
Education & Development

Teaching reading: what are our long term goals?

...working towards developing readers who can and do choose to read, and who read with interest and enjoyment, engagement and imagination, and increasing discernment and critical reflection over time. Such engaged readers focus on constructing and considering meaning as they ‘read the word and the world’ and are motivated to do so. The complex factors which interact to...
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