2,679 search results
Do we really listen to children and young people?
Education & Development

Do we really listen to children and young people?

...projects and these choices are not necessarily democratic or equitable (Bucknall 2012, 2014). To some extent, participation relies on a child or young person’s skills, abilities and confidence in taking the initiative. Participation can also be offered by adults as providing a learning opportunity or a means to enhance confidence. These different ways of promoting...
View article Do we really listen to children and young people?
Article 5 mins
Universities, empires and refugees
Society, Politics & Law

Universities, empires and refugees

...projects – such as the Creating Safer Space Network – which try to do this and to be open to other ways of representing experience. This place of safety is what the contemporary university needs to be for refugee learners and academics. When we try to decolonise the university, maybe we should start by opening the door, so that those who have been excluded can make,...
View article Universities, empires and refugees
Article 5 mins
The impact of COVID-19 on linguists and their mental health
Languages

The impact of COVID-19 on linguists and their mental health

...project for a cosmetics company broadly dealing with pampering oneself in times of Corona. With a close family member having just passed away as a result of COVID-19, the translator found it emotionally exhausting to undertake this work. But why would translators feel depleted after working with emotionally challenging texts? In an article about his experience of...
View article The impact of COVID-19 on linguists and their mental health
Article 10 mins
Europa’s icy shell
Science, Maths & Technology

Europa’s icy shell

...projections in photographs that hinted at the presence of plumes. Using the Near Infra-Red Spectrograph (NIRSPEC) at the Keck Observatory in Hawaii, researchers then identified the signal for water vapour at Europa (Video 1). NIRSPEC detects the specific frequencies of infrared light that water molecules emit or absorb, and suggested the presence of water vapour coming...
View article Europa’s icy shell
Article 5 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....
View article How are social workers portrayed in the media?
Article 5 mins
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....
View article Turning the pain of racial discrimination into protection for others
Article 15 mins
What happens ‘When East Meets West’?
Health, Sports & Psychology

What happens ‘When East Meets West’?

...project is novel in that I Skype interviewed distance learners who engaged with another culture from the comfort of their own homes. Mind the culture gap! Previous studies have focussed on culture shock whereas my findings highlighted that distance learning may help reduce some of the barriers of being ‘culturally different’ that might exist in traditional...
View article What happens ‘When East Meets West’?
Article 15 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...
View article The Italian Patient: Health care in Renaissance Italy
Article 10 mins