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Writing from the heart
Education & Development

Writing from the heart

...beating heart of writing – the exploration of self- and may need to remind ourselves that young writers need rich opportunities (and explicit permission?) to draw on their reservoirs of life experience, sense of place and commitment to and interest in particular issues. As Michael Morpurgo observes ‘We are what we write. I think even more than we are what we read’....
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Mistaken identity? Sharing experiences as a South Asian woman
Education & Development

Mistaken identity? Sharing experiences as a South Asian woman

...think that it is just a matter of confusion, and easily done. However, racially marginalised people experience microaggressions such as these daily and often ‘allow’ them to be laughed off, ignored, and they go unchallenged because of the emotional labour and strength it takes to call it out. This has happened to me more than once. In fact, in the very same week a...
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Design and Creativity
Science, Maths & Technology

Design and Creativity

...thinking at IDEO. IDEO: Users The connection between design and the user: the Head of Interaction Design at IDEO talks about their relationship with customers. IDEO: Design Engineering Engineering around the user's needs: how to run productive development meetings and the value of sharing ideas. IDEO: Good design Testing and analysing IDEO designs for a battery pack and a...
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The Z Files: Professor Geoff Palmer
Health, Sports & Psychology

The Z Files: Professor Geoff Palmer

...think you’d be better off going back to where you come from and planting bananas. Benjamin Zephaniah Wow! Prof Geoff Palmer And I looked at him, I said yes, as far as I know there are no bananas in Highbury. So of course I didn’t get it; however I saw the advert for a PhD opportunity in Edinburgh, and I applied and I came up to this city. My link with this industry...
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Getting started with Chinese business culture essentials
Languages

Getting started with Chinese business culture essentials

...think of when the term ‘culture’ is mentioned? It is likely that the first images that come to mind are related to everyday situations and behaviours. However, the Iceberg metaphor shown in Figure 1 illustrates that there are many assumptions, values, beliefs and customs that are deeply rooted and condition our behaviours, but which, crucially, are not necessarily...
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Level 1: Introductory 6 hrs
Windrush generation latest to be stripped of their rights in the name of 'migration control'
Society, Politics & Law

Windrush generation latest to be stripped of their rights in the name of 'migration control'

...system of immigration detention, which in 2007 became a default for some. Amid the debates about the detention of terror suspects without trial, foreign nationals subject to immigration control measures languished indefinitely in privately run detention centres up and down the UK. They didn’t, and still don’t, have the protections of due process, nor are they being...
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What should I expect when I am nearing the end of my life?
Health, Sports & Psychology

What should I expect when I am nearing the end of my life?

...system for providing care during the daytime, but provision of medical and nursing care is less during evenings, weekends and at night. What should I try to do, say, see? I encourage people entering the last weeks of life to do everything and anything they can do or need to do. This may often include will writing, practical arrangements, seeing loved ones, friends, pets...
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Sea level rise in Looe, Cornwall
Nature & Environment

Sea level rise in Looe, Cornwall

...Office for Science https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/663885/Future_of_the_sea_-_sea_level_rise.pdf Hansard https://hansard.parliament.uk/commons/2019-04-23/debates/1AC407C3-56B3-43EE-8CCD-5B179C3AD465/LooeFloodProtectionProject Accessed 20th December 2019 Humphreys, D. (2019) Climate Change: an introduction to a heated debate, in ‘Environmental Policy in ......
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