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Sibling rivalry: An important ingredient in sporting success?
Health, Sports & Psychology

Sibling rivalry: An important ingredient in sporting success?

...attention demonstrated by Rebecca Adlington and Victoria Pendleton may be one answer. Evidence suggests that later born children are more competitive (or ego-orientated) than their elder siblings. This is thought to stem from parental tendencies to compare younger siblings to their older counterparts. The eldest sibling’s development is often self-referenced whereas...
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Childhood in the digital age
Education & Development

Childhood in the digital age

...attention paid to the positives. Sue Palmer, in her thought-provoking and provocative text Toxic Childhood How the Modern World is Damaging our Children and What We Can Do About It (2007), claims that ‘every year children become more distractible, impulsive and self-obsessed – less able to learn, to enjoy life, to thrive socially’. Very often pessimism is directed...
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Level 1: Introductory 12 hrs
Exploring equality and equity in education
Education & Development

Exploring equality and equity in education

...attention is paid to their prior experiences and the understandings which they bring to the study of the subject. However, to ensure that ‘disadvantaged’ students have a fair opportunity of reaching a level of educational achievement which enriches their lives (and enables them to contribute to society) – equality of outcome – then it is argued that it is...
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Level 3: Advanced 10 hrs
How can Wikipedia Activism restore diversity to science?
Science, Maths & Technology

How can Wikipedia Activism restore diversity to science?

...attention to that might trigger additional effort from others. I’ve decided to put more energy into this myself. Here’s a recent tiny-effort example. Earlier this month,Erin O’Shea was named the first woman to head the prestigious Howard Hughes Medical Institute (HHMI). So I popped into her Wikipedia page and added that wonderful development to it. By the way – I...
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Why is it dangerous when Trump sees people as objects?
Languages

Why is it dangerous when Trump sees people as objects?

...attention on his campaign seems only to reaffirm that he views women as trivial. He could have perhaps been more convincing if he hadn’t resorted to reification in so many other contexts. As Hillary Clinton pointed out in the second presidential debate, “…it’s not only women, and it’s not only this video … he has also targeted immigrants, African-Americans,...
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Can engineering help improve patient safety?
Science, Maths & Technology

Can engineering help improve patient safety?

...attention as much as anything else.” In 2013, Dixon-Woods and colleagues published a study, funded by the Wellcome Trust, evaluating the use of surgical checklists introduced in hospitals to reduce complications and deaths during surgery. The checklists have become the most widely used patient safety intervention in the world and are recommended by the World Health...
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Better regulation or austerity politics? Undoing social protection
Society, Politics & Law

Better regulation or austerity politics? Undoing social protection

...attention. In short, we are witnessing in the UK the transformation of a system of regulation – a system of social protection – which has existed since the 1830s. And, despite its political framing, this is not a story about rules, regulations, nor red tape, nor about the demands of austerity. It is a story about social inequality and avoidable business-generated,...
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The jury: Why we need to learn more about their collective decision-making processes.
Society, Politics & Law

The jury: Why we need to learn more about their collective decision-making processes.

...attention and as a result, little is known about how juries make and reach a verdict decision (Gastil, Burkhalter, & Black, 2007; Salerno & Diamond, 2010). This blog discusses why it is important to not only know more about these decision-making processes, but also to look at the jury as a group rather than individuals. How does the jury work in England and Wales? In...
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