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Forgotten families
Health, Sports & Psychology

Forgotten families

...Research suggests that children of prisoners are at risk of mental health problems, challenges within formal educational environments and future offending. Research statistics indicate that 65% of boys with a parent in prison are more likely to go on to offend, although this data somewhat oversimplifies the complex relationship between parental imprisonment and childhood...
What does it mean to be a South Asian young adult carer?
Health, Sports & Psychology

What does it mean to be a South Asian young adult carer?

...research with South Asian young adult carers living in England (see below). We interviewed them about what their caring roles involve. Their caring tasks range from doing housework, helping the people they care for to get dressed or to wash, organising their medications and interpreting for them when they have a doctor’s appointment. The care these young people give...
Exploring the role of Associate Dean in UK Universities
Money & Business

Exploring the role of Associate Dean in UK Universities

...research tending to look at more clearly defined positions. The purpose of this paper is to report on initial data from an on-going Leadership Foundation funded project investigating the role of Associate Dean in UK universities. To answer the study’s research questions, an embedded, sequential mixed methods design has been adopted. Read more: Exploring the role of...
From Conversations on co-production to participants’ engagements
Society, Politics & Law

From Conversations on co-production to participants’ engagements

...research, and have aimed at fostering learning through arts and digital arts as well as social engagement. The co-production of this work has been part of the knowledge exchange between academics and arts, and depended on encounters between artists and researchers, asking questions, exchanging stories, dispelling myths: “Literally,” as Áine O’Brien of Counterpoints...
Dr Matt Balme on modelling the landscape of Mars
Science, Maths & Technology

Dr Matt Balme on modelling the landscape of Mars

...research priority area, gives us a tour of his laboratory and shows how he models the landscape of Mars...Transcript On the subject of his latest research, Dr Matthew Balme, said: “Our team has been looking for potential landing sites for the ExoMars Rover – a European mission that will look for signs of ancient life on Mars. One of these sites is called Aram Dorsum...
Chance, Risk and Health
Science, Maths & Technology

Chance, Risk and Health

...research in agriculture, medicine and industry. Measuring the Unmeasurable Combining genetics and statistics. Today's cutting edge research into the human genome uses Fisher's concept of maximum likelihood. The Quest for Certainty A Lonely Genius. Experts reveal the logic behind Fisher's ideas and their phenomenal legacy. Brink of a New Era Foundations for computer...
Imagining Scientists
Science, Maths & Technology

Imagining Scientists

...researchers have explored stereotypes of scientists. During this time they have attempted to isolate the small number of essential, simplified criteria that represent a scientist. This work began in the 1950s when two cultural anthropologists, called Margaret Mead and Rhoda Métraux, drew on the perceptions of American high-school students to produce a image of a...
Cloning
Nature & Environment

Cloning

...research, involving the cloning of human embryos, can now be allowed in the UK. How was this ruling reached? What is the story behind cloning? The idea of cloning animals was first suggested in 1938 by a German embryologist called Hans Spemann. He proposed what he called a "fantastical experiment" to remove the nucleus from an egg cell and replace it with a nucleus from...
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