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Talking about weight in therapy – Top tips for size affirmative practice
Health, Sports & Psychology

Talking about weight in therapy – Top tips for size affirmative practice

...resources will be useful for therapists wishing to develop a size affirmative practice and for clients wanting to know more about the approaches mentioned in this article. Health at Every Size by Linda Bacon and Body Respect by Linda Bacon and Lucy Aphramor are excellent introductions to alternative approaches to wellbeing which challenge the taken for granted, causal...
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Home education: levelling the playing field or increasing inequalities?
Education & Development

Home education: levelling the playing field or increasing inequalities?

...resource to be used to enter into higher education or training. Parents were clear they wanted to ensure a balance between exam study and other activities and classes their young people regularly did to give what they often describe as a ‘healthy life-work balance'. _Most people who don't home ed just don’t understand how it works. For us it was definitely not like...
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Autumn Statement 2016: Tories shift to growth strategy in an Ed Balls-style pirouette
Society, Politics & Law

Autumn Statement 2016: Tories shift to growth strategy in an Ed Balls-style pirouette

...resources could soon be even scarcer if the UK adopts a hard Brexit, with tight immigration controls. In these conditions, firms building the extra houses, roads and railways could find themselves bidding for additional employees and raw materials, driving up costs and prices rather than output and employment. Rising labour costs are, of course, economists’ code for the...
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Is America better than this?
Society, Politics & Law

Is America better than this?

...resourced public education system and the intentional sabotage of bipartisan politics (mostly by the Republican Party), the United States is dangerously divided. As Abraham Lincoln warned in 1858, “a house divided cannot stand”. The election of Raphael Warnock will be interpreted as a beacon of hope, and maybe it is – the tireless work of Stacey Abrams and others in...
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Why Design Education needs Black and Women of Colour Feminist Thinking
Education & Development

Why Design Education needs Black and Women of Colour Feminist Thinking

...resources from the Victoria and Albert Museum which show cutting edge fashion as the domain of Europe and exclude most fashions from beyond Europe, for example no displays of African fashions; and, teaching pattern cutting with mannequins and pattern cutting blocks which reproduce heteronormative body size and ableist norms. My PhD research now aims to challenge such...
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How radical was Martin Luther King?
History & The Arts

How radical was Martin Luther King?

...resources. It’s why he was in Memphis, supporting a strike by garbage workers, when he was assassinated in April 1968. He remained, to the end, the prophet of nonviolent resistance. But these three key moments in King’s life show his evolution over a decade. This remembering matters more than ever today. Many states are either passing or considering measures that...
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Modelling and estimation
Science, Maths & Technology

Modelling and estimation

...overlooked, the publishers will be pleased to make the necessary arrangements at the first opportunity. Don't miss out If reading this text has inspired you to learn more, you may be interested in joining the millions of people who discover our free learning resources and qualifications by visiting The Open University – www.open.edu/ openlearn/ free-courses ....
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From the classroom to the Commonwealth games: Dr Julie McElroy’s story
Education & Development

From the classroom to the Commonwealth games: Dr Julie McElroy’s story

...resources to implement diversity, equity and inclusion effectively. They must also understand the business impact and develop meaningful measurements to track progress. Commonwealth Games Today, I serve as a Non Executive Director for the Glasgow 2026 Commonwealth Games. The environment is exhilarating, fast paced and intellectually demanding and I thrive in it. Glasgow...
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