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Turning the pain of racial discrimination into protection for others
Education & Development

Turning the pain of racial discrimination into protection for others

...projects, such as being interviewed for two different books (Grown: The Black Girls’ Guide to Growing Up and A Quick Ting: The Black Girl Afro), talking to journalists, giving talks, being in a documentary and becoming a Dove Partner. Nobody thought this would result in court action, but the EHRC believed in my right to attend school as myself and funded my case....
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Article 15 mins
How are social workers portrayed in the media?
Languages

How are social workers portrayed in the media?

...prize winners announced at the BASW conference. There’s also the Transparency Project which aims to make family court reporting clearer. What we need now is a soap opera with a social worker as a main character to move TV dramas on from the child catcher-as-plot-device trope! This article was originally published on the Community Care website. Read the original article....
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Article 5 mins
The Italian Patient: Health care in Renaissance Italy
History & The Arts

The Italian Patient: Health care in Renaissance Italy

...project on the history of the Hospital of Santa Maria Nuova; the second is as one of the founding editors of an Italian journal about the history of medicine, Medicina e Storia. The research featured in The Italian Patient is being written up by John to be published by Yale University Press under the title The Renaissance Hospital in Florence and Italy. He lectures at the...
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Article 10 mins
Evolution through natural selection
Nature & Environment

Evolution through natural selection

...Introduction - In this , we describe the theory of evolution by natural selection as proposed by Charles Darwin in his book, first published in 1859, On The Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection, or The Preservation of Favoured Races in the Struggle for Life. We will look at natural selection as Darwin did, taking inheritance for granted, but ignoring the...
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Level 1: Introductory 4 hrs
Camille Parmesan - Stories of Change
Nature & Environment

Camille Parmesan - Stories of Change

...Project Camille Parmesan interview Key RH: = Roger Harrabin, Interviewer CP: = Camille Parmesan, Professor, Oceans and Climate Change, Participant RH: OK Camille Parmesan, can you start with telling me how we’ve underestimated things? CP: Well, in past reports, past IPCC reports and the big event analyses that have been in the scientific literature, there have always...
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The UK votes out; the EU shrinks; the world reacts
Society, Politics & Law

The UK votes out; the EU shrinks; the world reacts

...project will be at the heart of the 2017 race. Questions dominate the coverage in the regional press – with papers wondering what the impact will be on French politics, whether the EU can survive a Brexit, and what will happen next – reflecting the gamble on which the future on the EU now lies. Clément Louis Kolopp contributed to this section. United States Scott...
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Black and Minority Ethnic students: Mental wellbeing and study support
Health, Sports & Psychology

Black and Minority Ethnic students: Mental wellbeing and study support

...projects and public forums. https://blamuk.org/ Black Thrive Black Thrive is a partnership between communities, statutory organisations, the voluntary, and private sector working to reduce the inequality and injustices experienced by Black people in mental health services in the London Borough of Lambeth. https://www.blackthrive.org.uk/ Kindred Minds A user-led project...
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Video 10 mins
Mental health in society
Health, Sports & Psychology

Mental health in society

...Introduction - [Described image] This course will explore the different perspectives of mental health and the way in which they are understood. As well as traditionally being related to biology, neurology and psychology, experiences of mental health are also linked to social factors such as housing, employment, poverty or isolation. In addition, other aspects of...
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Level 1: Introductory 8 hrs