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Prison Abolition in Question(s): Part Two
Education & Development

Prison Abolition in Question(s): Part Two

...changes might be difficult, but the intervention must be predicated upon principles where both the means and the end of the response to the problematic conduct are concerned with building respect, dignity and more socially responsible society. Abolitionists have called for non-penal alternatives to punishment such as voluntary therapeutic communities and other intentional...
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Reimagining professional learning: conversations across perspectives
Education & Development

Reimagining professional learning: conversations across perspectives

...changing aspects of our practice, opening us up to developing from our strengths rather than only learning from our weaknesses. Taking an appreciative stance aligns with diffractive, embodied, relational and serendipitous views of professional learning, where we are adopting a different kind of attention – towards appreciating and noticing what is and what could be....
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How do we explain racial disproportionality in the criminal justice systems in the US and England and Wales?
Education & Development

How do we explain racial disproportionality in the criminal justice systems in the US and England and Wales?

...change and to analyse its impact as a ‘lever for reform’ (Souhami, 2014, p. 2). Research has found that despite the stated intentions of the Macpherson Report to delve more deeply into institutional and organisational norms that perpetuate racial inequalities and to move away from a ‘preoccupation with overt racism among police officers’ (Souhami, 2014, p. 2),...
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What are South Asian young adult carers’ aspirations for the future?
Health, Sports & Psychology

What are South Asian young adult carers’ aspirations for the future?

...change over time and some goals may be more realistic than others. Even if you had an assessment as a young carer, you can still complete the transition assessment as a young adult, as you will now be in a better position to identify your goals for the coming years. Our participants’ aspirations We asked the South Asian young adult carers who took part in our research...
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Data analysis and interpretation
Education & Development

Data analysis and interpretation

...Change. Norway: Wiley. Oey-Gardiner, M., Rahardi, F. and Can, C.K. (2023) ‘Post-research’, Ethics in Social Science Research in Indonesia, Springer, Singapore. Texas Center for Equity Promotion (2025) Considerations for Equity-Centered Research | Texas Center for Equity Promotion, The University of Texas at Austin. Available at:
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Butetown Carnival: past, present, and future
History & The Arts

Butetown Carnival: past, present, and future

...changing – a black music event is finally recognised as legitimate. We originally put on the Carnival in Canal Park on Loudoun Square because nobody could stop us there. The parade usually starts at the waterfront at Mermaid Quay, which historically used to be the Butetown Docklands, and ends at the park. In future, I would like to reverse this, so that we start at the...
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Herbal medicine
Health, Sports & Psychology

Herbal medicine

...change, but the plants remain. Over the last 150 years traditional descriptions of the ways in which plants work as medicines have been supplemented with biochemical analysis and research into plant pharmacology. Initially this research saw the development of pharmaceutical drugs derived from plant sources. Plants were analysed to determine which, of the dozens of complex...
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Early adopters: What are smartphones doing to children?
Education & Development

Early adopters: What are smartphones doing to children?

...changing children’s brains for the worse – potentially affecting their attention, motor control, language skills and eyesight, especially in under-fives, for whom so much brain development is taking place. Technology companies and app developers are throwing their marketing prowess at the problem, slapping words like “educational” and “e-learning” on their...
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