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Understanding interstrand crosslink repair in Drosophila
Science, Maths & Technology

Understanding interstrand crosslink repair in Drosophila

...adult progeria), patients have a defect (mutation) in the WRN gene (see fig2). Werner syndrome is characterized by the appearance of premature aging, therefore used as a model for understanding normal ageing process. In addition research into ICL repair mechanism enhances the understanding of cancer therapies that rely on ICL induction, such as genotoxic chemotherapy...
Neurodivergence and the menopause: a personal journey
Health, Sports & Psychology

Neurodivergence and the menopause: a personal journey

...adult services. I also taught for The Open University and delighted in the variety of my work, which included teaching, practice tutor roles and delivering residential schools, which were large, a real thrill and great fun. Gradually, despite enjoying my various work roles, I began to be a bit more worried about everything, doubting myself and feeling muddly. I was overly...
Working with young people: roles and responsibilities
Education & Development

Working with young people: roles and responsibilities

...adults make in their day-to-day work with young people. Some examples of these individual actions are: making contact listening suggesting giving information challenging assumptions. Click in the box below to start playing the video. AKKAS/KASEM [00.00] Here’s Andrew – he’s late….as usual…but anyway.. Hello Andrew…and anyway …..the whole…..and noone was...
Taking a Fresh Look at Managing Employee Engagement and Wellbeing
Health, Sports & Psychology

Taking a Fresh Look at Managing Employee Engagement and Wellbeing

...adult-to-adult conversations, is also critical organisational and team factors, where employee contributions that are valued; wellbeing is deemed important; procedural justice exists (fairness of decision-making processes); psychological safety is paramount (where speaking up is not punished by rejection or ridicule); plus providing employees with both responsibility and...
Five ways you can tell if your child is ‘normal’
Health, Sports & Psychology

Five ways you can tell if your child is ‘normal’

...adults. A practical tip: It can be helpful to get feedback from others if you are worried about an aspect of your child’s development. But this can be tough, because no one wants to hear negative comments about their child. However, some of the best people at helping you determine whether your child is similar or different to their peers, is an experienced teacher or...
Finding your way after the death of a significant person
Health, Sports & Psychology

Finding your way after the death of a significant person

...adults we are not given the privilege of playing and being creative in comparison to childhood (in my opinion). The loss we feel doesn’t always have words. So, what better way to express yourself than by drawing, painting, music, dance, poetry – whatever calls to you. It can be a powerful way to process emotions when words just don’t suffice or you can’t explain...
Approaching literature: reading Great Expectations
History & The Arts

Approaching literature: reading Great Expectations

...adult narrator looking back over a considerable time and so able to exercise adult judgements about himself. For example, he says that it was a ‘childish conclusion’ of his young self to imagine his dead mother ‘freckled and sickly’ on the basis of the gravestone inscription ‘Also Georgiana Wife of the Above’ (Dickens, Great Expectations, 1994 edn, p.3). We...
Children’s experiences with digital technologies
Education & Development

Children’s experiences with digital technologies

...adults (such as parents and teachers) should engage with and manage children’s interactions with technology...This free course, Children’s experiences with digital technologies, is an introduction to how children use digital technologies, such as mobile applications, digital games and computers, and what they learn from these experiences. The course draws on debates...