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Intergenerational perceptions: Busting age-related stereotypes
Education & Development

Intergenerational perceptions: Busting age-related stereotypes

...central feature of the project with volunteers being subject to suitability checks and ongoing supervision. Further information about intergenerational projects and practice can be found here: Linking Generations Northern Ireland Linkage Bristol The European Map of Intergenerational Learning (EMIL) Like this subject? See what the OU has to offer The Open University also...
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Does Inside Out accurately capture the mind of an 11-year-old girl? A child psychologist weighs in
Health, Sports & Psychology

Does Inside Out accurately capture the mind of an 11-year-old girl? A child psychologist weighs in

...central and she discovers romantic feelings. And it also sounds like groundwork being laid for a sequel centered on Riley’s pubescent years. The trailer for Pixar’s Inside Out. Transcript To read about whether or not Inside Out accurately depicts how memory works, click here. [The Conversation] Jane Timmons-Mitchell, Associate Clinical Professor of Psychology, Case...
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How did the referendum polls get it wrong - again?
Science, Maths & Technology

How did the referendum polls get it wrong - again?

...central issues, it was a division between “social liberals” and “social conservatives”. The former tend to be comfortable with the diversity that comes with immigration, while the latter prefer a society in which people share the same customs and culture. Social liberals were inclined to vote in favour of remaining in the EU, while social conservatives were more...
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Poverty in Scotland 2016: Tools for Transformation
Society, Politics & Law

Poverty in Scotland 2016: Tools for Transformation

...central theme running through the collection. The discussion of poverty, deprivation and inequalities more generally, have increasingly been entangled with issues of Scotland’s constitutional position and future. The period since the 2014 Scottish Independence Referendum has been politically volatile and the pace of change much greater than in a considerable time. While...
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Language is collateral damage in the gig economy
Languages

Language is collateral damage in the gig economy

...element in that process. By their very nature, the embedded, taken-for-granted ideological meanings of particular words and phrases are hard to uncover. Yet being aware of the processes by which they take hold is a step in countering their effects. In the dispute over pay and conditions between Deliveroo and its couriers, the battle of words plays a central role....
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What does President Macron mean for Brexit?
Society, Politics & Law

What does President Macron mean for Brexit?

...central to this deal. It is thus quite plausible to imagine that the new French president will seek terms of equivalence that reduce the UK’s ability to deregulate in areas such as financial services. That would be a way to protect French banking and encourage a maximum degree of job relocation to Paris. Whatever the exact outcome of the Brexit bargaining, the British...
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Protecting Landscapes and Creating the Right Tools for the Job
Society, Politics & Law

Protecting Landscapes and Creating the Right Tools for the Job

...central to the job of understanding what landscape means is an acknowledgment of its ‘evocative qualities’ and the ways it ‘is experienced’. Both suggest that detailed understandings of meaning and experience are valuable instruments for carrying out practical work. We know landscapes are evocative and affecting but how can this become more effectively...
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‘Irrational emotions’ and their cognitive impenetrability
History & The Arts

‘Irrational emotions’ and their cognitive impenetrability

...central idea is that irrational emotions occur when emotions are triggered by appraisal mechanisms that aren’t cognitively penetrated. The affect-program theory has fallen out of favour, in part because it gets jumbled up with Griffiths’s controversial claims about which emotions do and don’t form natural kinds. Moreover, contemporary philosophers of emotions...
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