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Key Ideas in Therapy
Health, Sports & Psychology

Key Ideas in Therapy

...social systems around them, such as family and work, which might be where the client's emotional problems come from... The Therapy Relationship What’s more important, finding the right therapy or finding the right therapist? There are a wide range of therapeutic approaches out there in the health marketplace, so how do you know which one is right for you? It turns out...
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Do independent enterprises really matter?
Money & Business

Do independent enterprises really matter?

...social enterprises being acquired by large corporations? Richard Blundel discusses the case for independence. ...In an episode of The Bottom Line broadcast on 27 October 2016, Evan Davis examined the pros and cons of 'Selling Your Corporate Baby' with Liz Earle, co-founder of Liz Earle Naturally Active Skincare, William Kendall, chairman of the soft drinks company,...
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The challenges of ethical trading - perspective of a retailer
Money & Business

The challenges of ethical trading - perspective of a retailer

...socially and/or environmentally responsible trade, but more specifically ethical trading means taking responsibility for the labour and human rights practices within the supply chain. Faced with these challenges most companies have now developed and implement Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) strategies and ethical trading sit within the social accountability frame...
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How can we design for resilience?
Science, Maths & Technology

How can we design for resilience?

...social-ecological systems. Carl Folke, co-founder of the Stockholm Resilience Centre (SRC), describes resilience as: ... the capacity to persist in the face of change, to continue to develop with ever changing environments. Resilience thinking is about how periods of gradual changes interact with abrupt changes, and the capacity of people, communities, societies, cultures...
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A new union flag
History & The Arts

A new union flag

...founder of SEAS – Socially Engaged Art Salon in Brighton. He works in various media including photography, print, painting and mix media installations. Most of his work is socially and politically engaged. His work has been exhibited in private and public galleries and museums in the UK, Europe and the Middle East; and several of his works are in private collections....
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Markets in crisis
Society, Politics & Law

Markets in crisis

...social, economic and political systems we have in place today. This material forms part of The Open University course DD309 Doing economics: people, markets and policy... Markets in Crisis A short introduction to this album Human motivation during a global crisis Nobel prize winner Amartya Sen expresses that now more than ever it's time to re-think the social, economic...
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Formulating research questions
Education & Development

Formulating research questions

...social care. However, the issues considered have relevance to research in other public policy and service arenas...‘Community collaboration is the cornerstone of EDI in research’ (Texas Centre for Equity Promotion). When setting out to formulate a research question, researchers are working to at least two immediate agendas. Firstly, the priorities of the funders of...
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How network science can unravel Al Capone's criminal associates
Science, Maths & Technology

How network science can unravel Al Capone's criminal associates

...social relationships of organized crime in Chicago in the 1920s, Chris M. Smith and Andrew V. Papachristos were able to take advantage ofthe availability of thousands of notes and documents on Al Capone’s criminal network. By applying network analysis to the criminal relationships in Capone’s gangs they find that multiplexity – when two people have more than one...
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