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How can we stop science, engineering and technology losing talented women?
Digital & Computing

How can we stop science, engineering and technology losing talented women?

...research opportunities arise. In fact, what is more astonishing is how well many women have done despite the constraints of a typical university career and the entrenched attitudes that have worked to men’s advantage. Put off by short-term contracts The select committee set out to discover what universities and government could do to change this situation. Although...
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Do boys need male role models?
Education & Development

Do boys need male role models?

...Children and Working With Men. The research team carried out interviews in various locations across the UK with vulnerable young men and women and male and female staff in services for young offenders, care leavers, young carers, and disabled young people. In the interviews, some young men and staff used the term ‘male role model’, but there was a lack of clarity...
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Can we design places to combat loneliness?
Health, Sports & Psychology

Can we design places to combat loneliness?

...researchers led by Dr Marlee Bower from the Matilda Centre at the University of Sydney, who set out to understand how people’s loneliness might be related to the places where they spend time. Why the built environment? There is evidence that the kinds of buildings and neighbourhoods people live in can help to shape people’s psychological wellbeing. For this reason,...
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Cognition and gender development
Education & Development

Cognition and gender development

...children’s gender development. In particular, researchers have suggested that children’s concepts of themselves as male or female play a critical role in encouraging children to identify and endorse gender roles. This notion was first set out at the same time as the early social learning approaches to gender development. The book that contained ......
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Treezilla
Society, Politics & Law

Treezilla

...children to university students and the general public can get involved with. The idea is to map every tree in Britain. This will create a data-rich platform on which a wide range of citizen science investigations can be built". Treezilla is one of many applications available with The OpenScience Laboratory. It was initiated by researchers, scientists & educators and...
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Home education as a provocation for the future of education
Education & Development

Home education as a provocation for the future of education

...research and innovation to transform education...[Paper illustration - lots of hands reaching for the world in the sky] We all are called to engage in a dialogue based on two fundamental principles: the right to quality education throughout life, and education as a public endeavour and a common good. Home education is a form of educational provision alternative to...
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Influence of temperament
Education & Development

Influence of temperament

...children’s development. It must be emphasized that temperament is concerned with individual differences and therefore the impact on development centres on associations between temperament and variations in children’s cognitive and social development. There are several ways in which this can occur and these will be considered in turn. Direct effect of temperament on...
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The MMR vaccine: public health, private fears
Health, Sports & Psychology

The MMR vaccine: public health, private fears

...research has found measles in the guts of 75 of 91 autistic children with bowel disease. 19 June 2002 Wakefield presents evidence to a US congressional committee claiming that the measles virus identified in the guts of autistic children had been identified by a team led by John O'Leary as originating from the vaccine. The technique was subsequently criticised as being...
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