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Teaching the people of the Calais camp: Lessons in 'The Jungle'
Education & Development

Teaching the people of the Calais camp: Lessons in 'The Jungle'

...style and English. Others use the course to start writing in English for the first time. Some stories are visual – told through the media of photography and art. Many want their stories to be recorded and heard, but have been let down by the media as well as volunteers in the camp, who – perhaps with good intentions – collect stories just so that they can claim to...
From Astrobiology to Parliament
Science, Maths & Technology

From Astrobiology to Parliament

...style; they focus on what is happening right now and why it is interesting right now. Because they’re written for parliamentarians, they must go straight to the point, they have to be accurate and unbiased and they must be rigorously evidenced. They’re also very short – my mini-note was just two sides of A4! My POSTnote took me a long time to write but I think the...
London housing protests echo Glasgow rent strikes of 100 years ago
Society, Politics & Law

London housing protests echo Glasgow rent strikes of 100 years ago

...style font on it. Black text saying "Rent Strike Against Increases / We are Not Removing". on a dark yellow background.] Window poster from the Glasgow Women’s Housing Association 1915. Fear of a Red Revolt Led overwhelmingly by women such as Mary Barbour and Helen Crawfurd, this tenants’ movement was instrumental in the fight against the landlords. It led to growing...
Beethoven: The Expert View
History & The Arts

Beethoven: The Expert View

...style and by emotional crises. In his ‘first period’ Beethoven worked mainly as a virtuoso pianist. The second is marked by the shattering episode of the famous ‘Heiligenstadt Testament’, the third by a series of personal catastrophes. Born in Bonn in 1770, Beethoven was the eldest child of a large family. His first music lessons were with his father, who is said...
Learning from the past with historic buildings
History & The Arts

Learning from the past with historic buildings

...styles (uniting location, culture and climate) were generally ignored, in favour of cheaper versions of the classical style that was in fashion. One-off buildings higher up the social scale could afford to ignore the need to use as little material and heating fuel as possible. Developer buildings tended to follow fashion, but cheaply: lower ceilings, fewer rooms, smaller...
Accessibility of eLearning
Education & Development

Accessibility of eLearning

...profiling should be represented in such approaches. Kelly et al. (2007) make recommendations for user-focused accessibility policies and processes that attend to the diversity of users, user aims, and use contexts. Building on this, Cooper et al. (2012) suggest that accessibility cannot be considered as an intrinsic quality of a resource, but that accessibility is only...
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Grief and COVID-19: Mourning what we know, who we miss and the way we say goodbye
Health, Sports & Psychology

Grief and COVID-19: Mourning what we know, who we miss and the way we say goodbye

...et al, 2020). Additionally, leisure activities have been limited since in most countries, children have not been allowed to access playgrounds, or social group activities and sports clubs have been closed (Fegert et al, 2020). This disruption has impacted upon the way children learn, grow, play, behave, interact and manage emotions. Quarantine measures can induce...
Challenging gender discrimination in academia: a call for inclusive change
Education & Development

Challenging gender discrimination in academia: a call for inclusive change

...et al., 2020; Heilman and Caleo, 2018; Mott, 2022). The concept of intersectionality adds another critical dimension, as gender discrimination often intersects with race, ethnicity, class and other social factors (Roos and Gatta, 2009; Johnson, 2018; LERU, 2019). Discrimination operates at multiple levels (Ovseiko, et al., 2016; Easterly and Ricard, 2020): Individual:...