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What happens to the poorest in a cashless society?
Science, Maths & Technology

What happens to the poorest in a cashless society?

...managed to buy a single meal for his family along the way. More importantly, it was very difficult for people like Pintu and even the scrap buyers to get the new 500 and 2,000 rupee bills issued to replace the eliminated notes. The chain had been damaged: With cash in short supply everywhere, scrap buyers couldn’t pay the collectors, who in turn had more trouble...
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How the sausage links us together
History & The Arts

How the sausage links us together

...out in more local settings – at my own university in 1966, Peter Lloyd, catering manager at the newly-established University of Warwick, averted a protest over the cost and quality of food in the student canteen by lowering the price of sausages by one penny. Let them eat sausages. This article was originally published on The Conversation. Read the original article....
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Unparliamentary language: the benefits of swearing in politics
Languages

Unparliamentary language: the benefits of swearing in politics

...managed to overshadow media coverage of the substantive point he was making. On Fox News, the presenter Steve Doocy tried to argue that ‘people will be talking about whether or not it’s appropriate for the president to use the “n-word” and whether or not it is beneath the dignity of his office’. [Houses of Parliament artistic perspective] An artistic perspective...
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Is ‘Barbenheimer’ going to save cinema?
History & The Arts

Is ‘Barbenheimer’ going to save cinema?

...management teams taking home huge salaries and some creative talent unable to afford healthcare, the Hollywood screen industry faces challenges that run deeper than audience numbers. As people’s engagement with film continues to change in the wake of technological advances (such as online streaming and VR), the nearly 130-year-old tradition of cinema going may continue...
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Social work: Effective practice with substance abusing parents
Health, Sports & Psychology

Social work: Effective practice with substance abusing parents

...managing their own feelings of being ‘an unwanted guest’, while at the same time believing that engagement is achievable, as is change in the parents. Discussion reflects some of the personal challenges of working with those who find change very difficult and the tension between believing in the possibility of change but being realistic about what can be achieved and...
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Brexit and health care professionals
Health, Sports & Psychology

Brexit and health care professionals

...management will need to adjust. Importantly, and as you will see, although my analysis identifies four categories, the effects of leaving the EU will not be so clearly divided in daily experiences of health care practice. Four key areas that need consideration in the light of Brexit are: Education of health care professionals Regulation of health care professionals...
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STiP@50 Celebrations
Society, Politics & Law

STiP@50 Celebrations

...managing change in broad-ranging professional contexts through two initiatives in 2021; whose resources are on this STiP Hub: a series of 8 webinar events that began in April a series of 10 audio podcasts originally recorded in August/ September involving one-to-one conversations with ASTiP Associate, (Emeritus) Professor Simon Bell Celebration 1: Webinar series Starting...
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What do Europe's new data rules mean for children online?
Education & Development

What do Europe's new data rules mean for children online?

...manage both their opportunities and risks, notwithstanding good practice in deliberative policymaking, including with children. Thus their understanding of their online privacy is not taken into account in these debates. On the bright side, this long-standing complaint is being rectified, for the first author has just been awarded a grant from the ICO to research exactly...
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