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Design forensic psychology: parenting education and support
Science, Maths & Technology

Design forensic psychology: parenting education and support

...become more responsive, empowering and sustainable, addressing the unique challenges faced by this marginalised group. The evidence underscores the importance of peer support, attachment-informed, gender-responsive, and trauma-informed approaches to improve outcomes for both mothers and their children. However, significant gaps remain in delivery models and theoretical...
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Getting to the heart of it: investigating side effects of anti-cancer treatments
Science, Maths & Technology

Getting to the heart of it: investigating side effects of anti-cancer treatments

...treatments can affect the heart, patients are now living long enough for these delayed cardiotoxic effects to become apparent, which itself reflects the significant progress in cancer care. The challenge ahead is to develop strategies that can lessen or even reverse these cardiac effects, helping to further improve long-term health and quality of life for survivors....
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When words escape control: Tourette syndrome and slurs
Education & Development

When words escape control: Tourette syndrome and slurs

...becoming harder to maintain for some particularly offensive words. Even when they appear in analytical or descriptive contexts, certain words can still provoke strong adverse reactions. So the N-word today is rarely spoken even when people are quoting or analysing it rather than deploying it as an insult. The current feeling in public conversation is that some terms are...
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Money & Business

Working in teams

...students, finding a significant positive effect on creative performance. Job satisfaction – Bragadottir et al. (2023) surveyed nursing staff across Iceland, receiving 567 survey responses. Their findings showed a significant relationship between teamwork and job satisfaction in medical settings, and their conclusion cites research from the US and Singapore that...
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Was Alcibiades the Athenian Donald Trump?
History & The Arts

Was Alcibiades the Athenian Donald Trump?

...student of Greek history, like me, cannot but admire the historian’s unparalleled understanding of the invisible web that every ambitious, skillful and ruthless politician must weave around his audience. Since there was no party system and no elected politicians either, every day in Athens was like being on the campaign trail. As a result, Athens provides a striking...
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How the sausage links us together
History & The Arts

How the sausage links us together

...out in more local settings – at my own university in 1966, Peter Lloyd, catering manager at the newly-established University of Warwick, averted a protest over the cost and quality of food in the student canteen by lowering the price of sausages by one penny. Let them eat sausages. This article was originally published on The Conversation. Read the original article....
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Southwest Donegal: uniqueness and interdependence in 2015
OpenLearn Ireland

Southwest Donegal: uniqueness and interdependence in 2015

...students and staff from the Geography Department of Maynooth College (now Maynooth University) and their research provided an invaluable base especially for the Open University programmes in 1983 (Regan and Breathnach, 1981). Using a rural area in the West of Ireland also links the programmes directly to the next series in this collection, on Northeast Mayo. Southwest...
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Does fiction make people more empathic and is that a good thing?
History & The Arts

Does fiction make people more empathic and is that a good thing?

...students over time: a meta-analysis’. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology Review, 15, pp. 180–98. Nettle, D. (2005) ‘What happens in Hamlet? Exploring the psychological foundations of drama’. In J. Gottschall and D. Sloan Wilson (eds), The Literary Animal (pp. 56–75). Evanston, Il: Northwestern University Press. Schonfeld, Z. (2013) Now We Have Proof...
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