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Coronavirus: The Lowdown
Health, Sports & Psychology

Coronavirus: The Lowdown

...Helpful links: World Health Organization GOV.UK NHS Coronavirus: What about mental health? These are times of uncertainty and the relentless bad news, activity on social media, and misinformation being spread can cause anxiety. These free resources can help you if you're feeling like your mental health is taking a turn for the worse. Free courses on infectious disease...
Educational leadership at local and community level: Supporting ‘Quality Education’ even in times of adversity
Education & Development

Educational leadership at local and community level: Supporting ‘Quality Education’ even in times of adversity

...Social and Economic Affairs estimates that school closures have kept 90% of all students out of school globally, reversing years of progress in education. Governments around the world have had to ensure continuity of learning through alternative means. This has mostly been technology-based remote learning approaches, even though that risks exacerbating the challenges...
Did Harry Potter’s extracurricular activities land him a job at the Ministry of Magic?
Education & Development

Did Harry Potter’s extracurricular activities land him a job at the Ministry of Magic?

...social and cultural awareness acquired during his up-bringing in the Muggle world. This very particular form of inter-cultural competence manifests itself in Harry’s knowledge and understanding of Muggle ways and his ability to question wizard practices, never taking things at face value. One could argue that being brought up as a Muggle stops Harry from being so in awe...
Download your language survey kit
History & The Arts

Download your language survey kit

...social variables’), as these could have a direct bearing on how individuals speak. For the purposes of this project, we have focussed on the particular information that is being recorded on the BBC Voices website, as this is the minimum information that you will need in order to enter your findings there. Of course, it would have been possible to ask many more detailed...
Graham Harvey on Davi Kopenawa at Oxford University
History & The Arts

Graham Harvey on Davi Kopenawa at Oxford University

...social sciences” and “humanities”). He has reinforced an emphasis on relationality – which was addressed by the theoretical and quantum physicists on the panel as they spoke about the vital importance of attending to interactions rather than to seemingly discrete particles and other objects. In this context it is almost incidental that Davi has provided exciting...
Business Bursts: Supply chain
Health, Sports & Psychology

Business Bursts: Supply chain

...Social Enterprise Supply chains connect the production or raw materials to the final consumption of goods and services in shops and malls or online. They’re both static but dynamic, because you’re talking of a throughput of say steel that comes from iron-ore, which comes from coal, which goes into pots and pans, cars, steel girders for bridges and offices, through to...
Writing for pleasure?
Education & Development

Writing for pleasure?

...social act of making meaning in an uncertain world? Are professional conceptions of writing so heavily framed by the Government’s criteria for writing at the ‘expected standard’ that the voice and verve of the young and their personal engagement in writing is being sidelined? As children across the country endure tests and seek to name and label modal verbs and...
Introducing environment
Nature & Environment

Introducing environment

...social housing A look at the council's plans to improve the energy efficiency of council homes. No ordinary house? A conventional -looking home is a cutting-edge example of self-sufficient living. Selling the green dream Developers can build eco-houses, but who buys them? The green pioneers What it's like to live in the innovative Hockerton settlement. Garden gold The...