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Remedying the impact of school closures: be kind, thank a teacher
Education & Development

Remedying the impact of school closures: be kind, thank a teacher

...Studies, explores what 'lessons' are being learned...The former Ofsted Chief Inspector for England says the only way he can see school closures recovering after COVID-19 is for teachers to work weekends and evenings. I’m not sure if Michael Wilshaw remembers being an inspector and visiting schools, but maybe it has escaped him that teachers have been working weekends...
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Has Twitter's role as a political influence been overstated?
Digital & Computing

Has Twitter's role as a political influence been overstated?

...study, Naomi Barnes and Huw Davies question whether Twitter really is a public sphere or if it is simply a platform capitalist that monetises displays of outrage?...[Giant hashtag] Twitter is, of course, many things to many people. It is a place people have connected, had ideas developed, and views broadened. However, it is also violent – a place of trolls, masked and...
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Sniffing out signs of life
Science, Maths & Technology

Sniffing out signs of life

...studying VOCs in ‘analogue environments’. An analogue environment is a location or situation that resembles the geological or biological conditions of another planetary body. Some analogues are laboratory simulations, while some are actual environments on Earth, such as Svalbard in Norway (very cold) or the Atacama Desert in Chile (very dry). In these environments, we...
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How does COVID-19 affect cancer treatment?
Science, Maths & Technology

How does COVID-19 affect cancer treatment?

...studies are trying to understand why some patients have more severe symptoms than others. Unfortunately, there is currently no specific treatment for COVID-19; although many vaccines and antiviral drugs are in development or being repurposed, with some already being tested in clinical trials. For clarification, repurposed drugs are medicines that work for another disease...
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Sub-concussions in women’s football: what can be done to protect the brains of footballers?
Health, Sports & Psychology

Sub-concussions in women’s football: what can be done to protect the brains of footballers?

...studies starting only about three years ago. Long-term research is limited as women have been involved in professional contact sports for a much shorter time than men, so the impact of concussion is yet to be fully realised. However, there is one example of research conducted in 2020 when an Australian Rules player, Jacinta Barclay, committed suicide after a brief but...
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Highs and lows and highs again: How football has changed in the past 50 years
Health, Sports & Psychology

Highs and lows and highs again: How football has changed in the past 50 years

...study. [Wembledy stadium modern football] References 1. Long, S. (2016), ‘Manchester United’s legendary squad earned less than one quarter of Wayne Rooney’s annual salary’, The Evening Standard [online]. Accessed 11th March 2019. Available at:
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'Bad Apples' or Organisational Cultures?
Education & Development

'Bad Apples' or Organisational Cultures?

...studies, and has been applied in both US and UK educational contexts. Issues related to race and racism are not unique to criminal justice systems, but, from a Critical Race Theory perspective, are woven throughout the very fabric of society and are pervasive in all social institutions. For more discussion of racial and class disparities in criminal justice system in the...
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Black History Month 2022 talks
Education & Development

Black History Month 2022 talks

...Studies. As a social anthropologist she is passionate about research, and has been conducting a research project on Olaudah Equiano’s life in Cambridge and his contribution to the abolition of the transatlantic slave trade. This project revealed fascinating insights into the social and working relationships between eighteenth-century free Black men in England, English...
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