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Reading for pleasure: just window dressing?
Education & Development

Reading for pleasure: just window dressing?

...research suggests extrinsic motivation has a detrimental effect on children’s comprehension. Physically attractive reading environments can be enticing to children and are part of the reading for pleasure pedagogy described by the UKLA Teachers as Readers study, alongside reading aloud, own reading time, and informal book talk. However their ability to influence the...
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Introduction to the trauma-informed investigation of rape and serious sexual offences article series
Society, Politics & Law

Introduction to the trauma-informed investigation of rape and serious sexual offences article series

...Centre for Police Research and Learning (CPRL) for the Home Office. The work was part of a multi-university project, known as ‘Operation Soteria Bluestone’, exploring a number of different aspects of rape and serious sexual offences (RASSO) investigation. The focus of the work for the CPRL was officer learning, development and wellbeing. Essentially the team explored...
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Reading and note taking – preparation for study
Society, Politics & Law

Reading and note taking – preparation for study

...Research findings Feeling safer Complaints/support Community officer numbers Numbers of children involved Human rights issues New centre for young people planned Comparing your notes with ours, you will probably find that we have some points in common, but perhaps you also got some different ideas down as well. That's to be expected. The point of the activity is not to...
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Level 1: Introductory 12 hrs
Exploring family health
Health, Sports & Psychology

Exploring family health

...Children’s Society Young Carers Initiative, 2005) One of the most prominent researchers looking at the plight of young carers is Professor Saul Becker from the University of Nottingham. Becker defined young carers as: children and young persons under 18 who provide or intend to provide care, assistance or support to another family member. They carry out, often on a...
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Level 1: Introductory 8 hrs
Teaching reading: what are our long term goals?
Education & Development

Teaching reading: what are our long term goals?

...research indicates the synergies between children’s reading for pleasure with print and digital reading resources, and the affective, creative, interactive, shared, sustained and personalised nature of their engagement (Kucirkova, Littleton and Cremin, 2016). These synergies which have the potential to help shape teachers’ (and parents’ and publishers’) choices of...
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Professor John Naughton On Using Systems Thinking In Practice
Society, Politics & Law

Professor John Naughton On Using Systems Thinking In Practice

...research project on ‘Conspiracy and Democracy’ in CRASSH (the Centre for Research in the Arts, Social Sciences and Humanities) in Cambridge, where he is a Senior Research Fellow. John recalls “In 2013-2015 David Runciman and I ran a small project on Technology and Democracy which in 2020 led to the establishment of the Minderoo Centre for Technology and Democracy in...
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Five ways you can tell if your child is ‘normal’
Health, Sports & Psychology

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

...Centre Logo] As a lecturer and researcher with an interest in child and adolescent mental health, I would encourage parents and caregivers to think about the psychological aspects of child development – and how we can have rather limited views on what constitutes ‘normal’ or healthy emotional and social development. For instance, in terms of gender role...
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Sibling rivalry: An important ingredient in sporting success?
Health, Sports & Psychology

Sibling rivalry: An important ingredient in sporting success?

...research say? One study found that elite athletes were more likely to be later born children showing an association between birth order and skill level. In an earlier study on the physical performance of pre-school children, those children with older brothers or sisters performed better than only or first born children. So why is this the case? The competiveness for...
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