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Volunteering with a personal or professional focus
Education & Development

Volunteering with a personal or professional focus

...based bereavement volunteer for the charity Cruse Bereavement Support. He has always been interested in mental health, and his work at The Open University in Wales involves supporting students’ mental health, but it was his personal experience that led to his volunteering. Continue reading Stephen’s first child was stillborn. It was that loss which made him want to...
Prison Abolition in Question(s): Part One
Education & Development

Prison Abolition in Question(s): Part One

...based are fundamentally flawed. Prisons are designed to exact particular kinds of punishment: loss of liberty and rights, social isolation, and austere material living conditions. They are coercive environments in which genuine treatment/rehabilitation/care cannot be provided because they are incompatible with the delivery of punishment. Additionally, pain infliction –...
Three weeks in June and one night in November
Society, Politics & Law

Three weeks in June and one night in November

...based on childbearing and Trump’s infamous “She had blood coming out of her eyes, blood coming out of her … wherever” comment on Megyn Kelly, shows a fixation and disgust at women’s bodily functions. Trump’s constant exhortation to ‘drain the swamp’ could have been taken straight from Theweleit’s study. And the brutal political assassination of female MP...
Children and young people’s participation
Education & Development

Children and young people’s participation

...based on the ideas first explored by Hart and Shier. Make it meaningful to yourself and your interaction with children and young people. Include where you have come from and ideals that you might be aiming for, as well as where you think you are now. Finally, think about your interaction with colleagues in other child and youth service sectors – how confident are you in...
Killed by Agatha Christie: Strychnine and the detective novel
History & The Arts

Killed by Agatha Christie: Strychnine and the detective novel

...based solution to the mystery itself. Consider this only a partial spoiler because I’m not going to give away the killers in the case. I am going to tell you how Christie solved the timing of Mrs. Inglethorp’s death. As Hercule Poirot investigates the killing, one of the clues he discovers is an empty box of potassium bromide powders, a compound used as a mild...
The distance between us
History & The Arts

The distance between us

...based diets’, Appetite, 135, pp. 1-9. Merskin, D. (2018) Seeing Species: Re-presentations of animals in media and popular culture. Peter Lang. Piazza, J., Ruby, M.B., Loughnan, S. et al. (2015) ‘Rationalizing meat consumption. The 4Ns’, Appetite, 91, pp. 114-128. Presser, L. (2013) Why We Harm. Rutgers University Press. Stewart, K. & Cole, M. (2009) ‘The...
The Science of Fear
Health, Sports & Psychology

The Science of Fear

...base of the temporal lobe (see B in the image above). To the non-expert, this means that it is about level with the top of the ears and about half way towards the centre of the head. Recent research, using sophisticated equipment which maps the parts of the human brain that are active during particular tasks, has revealed that the amygdala is a very important neural...
Working as a researcher | Developing research and study skills
Education & Development

Working as a researcher | Developing research and study skills

...based on that so that I could try and come up with something that was perhaps more appropriate for my area. [EdD student, Year 3] Points for you to consider: How much do you feel you have taken ownership of your research? What more could you do to develop your own independent voice as a researcher? Gathering and analysing data What others said: I had to learn SPSS …I...