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From curing to caring? Exploring the role of spiritual healing in a biomedical world
Health, Sports & Psychology

From curing to caring? Exploring the role of spiritual healing in a biomedical world

...Social & Cultural Geography, 20(8), pp. 1114–1137. Hunter, D. J. (2023) 'At Breaking Point or Already Broken? The National Health Service in the United Kingdom', N Engl J Med, 389(2), pp. 100–103. Institute of Health Visiting (2023) Health visiting in the NHS Long Term Workforce Plan: In brief. Available at:
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Building peace through teaching Remembrance Sunday
Education & Development

Building peace through teaching Remembrance Sunday

...Social, Health and Economic Education) and Religious Studies. It can help children and young people relate to events from both the past and present. It can also help students better understand the experience of classmates from conflict-affected regions. Finally, it can help students apply lessons from the past to today’s contexts, understanding the consequences of...
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Home education for children with special educational needs
Education & Development

Home education for children with special educational needs

...social services. Parents and schools Tensions in parent-school relationships are nothing new. Nevertheless, perhaps previous generations of parents did not have comparable access to information regarding their children’s educational rights, or to local and national groups of other families. Participants, including those who never enrolled their children at school,...
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The People on the Notes: Jane Austen
History & The Arts

The People on the Notes: Jane Austen

...social status; she did not herself belong to the landed gentry – that is to say, to the class of the owners of such houses and estates as Pemberley, Netherfield, or Rosings. Instead, like Elizabeth Bennet, she belonged to what has been called the ‘pseudo-gentry’, a class of upper-professional families living in the country (clergymen, barristers, army and navy...
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How does COVID-19 affect cancer treatment?
Science, Maths & Technology

How does COVID-19 affect cancer treatment?

...social distancing see their website). Some people with cancer can be considered to fall into the vulnerable category based on the type of cancer and/or treatment they are undergoing. Based on Wuhan´s experience, patients who were treated with chemotherapy or have undergone surgery immediately before contracting COVID-19 were at higher risk of developing severe COVID-19...
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From boom to bust: the AI winter
Digital & Computing

From boom to bust: the AI winter

...social media feeds. Neural nets buy and sell stocks and shares, identify gene sequences that lead to disease, drive vehicles, filter spam email, monitor computers for malicious software and, perhaps appropriately, analyse the workings of our own brains. The 21st Century has seen artificial intelligence move to the centre of many modern technologies. Around the world,...
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Betty Luckham: celebrating the activism of a pioneering Windrush woman
History & The Arts

Betty Luckham: celebrating the activism of a pioneering Windrush woman

...Social Sciences. Betty and Bryan settled in Manchester in 1961. Bryan worked in Adult Education and Betty began her lifelong connection with the African Caribbean community in her new role as a community development worker employed by the Commission in the UK for the West Indian Federation. The aim of the post was to support newly arrived West Indians settle in the UK....
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Thrill seeking and risk taking - what has made extreme sports into a worldwide phenomenon?
Health, Sports & Psychology

Thrill seeking and risk taking - what has made extreme sports into a worldwide phenomenon?

...social media presence and their transition into mainstream competitive domains. For example, the Winter Olympics now includes several sports that previously only sat within the X Games programme, such as slopestyle and the big air events. We see these athletes as risk takers, even when we imagine people high-lining, snow kiting, or ice-climbing, we conceptualize them as...
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