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Methods in Motion: Developing psychosocially informed self-help on gender
Health, Sports & Psychology

Methods in Motion: Developing psychosocially informed self-help on gender

...social identities and related systems of privilege and oppression, and how these have shifted – or not – over their lifecourse. Regular lists of multiple experiences, where diverse individuals tell brief stories around an aspect of gender. These are anonymised accounts we heard in our therapy, activism, and research – from women, men, and non-binary, trans, and...
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The new politics of climate change
Nature & Environment

The new politics of climate change

...social systems represent a massive undertaking to achieve them within the 12 year window recommended in the IPCC 2018 climate change report. This demands a level of attention in the UK that is comparable to the UKs war effort during World War II. Such efforts must focus not just on immediate carbon targets but engage more comprehensively with the need for deep adaptation...
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Methods in Motion: Emotionally sensing knowledge
Health, Sports & Psychology

Methods in Motion: Emotionally sensing knowledge

...social differences in practices and expectations using Walter's checklist of questions. We also interviewed one another about our experiences of the death of a relative to understand more about our own and one anothers’ emotional responses and the feelings aroused by being interviewed on this topic. These reflexive approaches helped to acknowledge and make visible our...
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Freedom of speech
History & The Arts

Freedom of speech

...Social challenges Others might say the mere fact that speech causes offence should never be a reason to ban it. As Voltaire’s biographer put it in summing up the great philosopher’s views, ‘I don’t agree with what you say but I will defend to the death your right to say it.’ This also does not seem right. Should people have to endure racist or sexist abuse?...
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Methods in Motion: The middle children
Languages

Methods in Motion: The middle children

...social science methods, it aimed to provide new understandings of how cultural knowledge and identity are mediated through child language brokering and to explore whether young people were aware of translating cultures. Arts-based methods gave the young people (aged 13-16 years) who took part a chance to talk about migration, language brokering and identity and our focus...
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Keeping Mum: learning how to be a father
Society, Politics & Law

Keeping Mum: learning how to be a father

...social disorder, there’s now a general acceptance that the involvement of fathers is important for children’s healthy development. In the past, it might have been acceptable for fathers to act simply as breadwinners and to leave bringing up the children to mothers, but not any more. Increasingly, it seems, the only good father is one who is present – and not only...
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English monsters
History & The Arts

English monsters

...social and economic change – change that brought prosperity to some but suffering to others. The dog was an emblem of what was wrong with things, as it is in King Lear when Lear is brought face to face with the ‘Poor naked wretches . . .’, those subjects he has ‘. . . ta'en / Too little care of . . .’. As unique as Shakespeare’s presentation of his theme is,...
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Women in the Railway, the War and the Unions
Society, Politics & Law

Women in the Railway, the War and the Unions

...Social Sciences courses. With the introduction of conscription in 1916 leading to over 100,000 men in Scotland leaving to fight in the First World War, women had to step in to fill the jobs that men had left. Many of these jobs were on the railway and it had never been imagined that women would be able to do this type of work previously. Society was very different and, if...
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