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How can a genetic mutation shared by many Brazilians help in the fight against cancer?
Health, Sports & Psychology

How can a genetic mutation shared by many Brazilians help in the fight against cancer?

...Research Fund in London, and coincidentally at exactly the same time by three other groups working independently in the USA and France, and led by Arnold Levine, Lloyd Old and Pierre May. p53 is a tumour suppressor. Its job is to protect us from cancer by making sure that, when our cells divide as part of routine growth and maintenance of our bodies, they do so without...
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Should we test drugs on pregnant women?
Health, Sports & Psychology

Should we test drugs on pregnant women?

...children. “If we did a better job of researching drugs in pregnancy before we approved them, we would have been able to avoid the thalidomide crisis,” Little says. “The lessons we learn from the past aren’t always the right lessons.” Denying pregnant women access to clinical trials also leaves doctors in the dark about how to treat expectant mothers who do fall...
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Postgraduate study: Education, Childhood & Youth
Education & Development

Postgraduate study: Education, Childhood & Youth

...children and young people or are a teacher thinking about taking your learning to the next level? Or you might simply want to know more about research and how you can take your research interest further. On this page we have brought together a number of courses that look at aspects of postgraduate study including what it is like to study online, the skills needed at...
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Learning to teach: making sense of learning to teach
Education & Development

Learning to teach: making sense of learning to teach

...research about students' experiences of learning to teach and considers the implications of this in designing teacher education programmes...This free course, Making sense of learning to teach, is the first of four courses which comprise the course Learning to teach. It draws on what we know about how people learn to become teachers. It explores the different approaches...
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Exploring how migration changes the places where we live
Society, Politics & Law

Exploring how migration changes the places where we live

...research by the Centre of Migration, Policy and Society at the University of Oxford who have identified some key principles to aid our understanding of integration and inclusion. Spencer and Charseley’s 2016 model of integration demonstrates that integration is a mutual, two-way process that is concerned both with newcomers and receiving or host communities. Integration...
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What does it mean to be trauma informed in practice?
Society, Politics & Law

What does it mean to be trauma informed in practice?

...children, traumatic experiences, known as Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACEs), include: maltreatment (emotional and sexual abuse, physical and emotional neglect) parental separation domestic violence mental illness substance abuse incarceration. (Bellis et al., 2014) Where there are no protective factors to help maintain resilience, such as support from trusted family...
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Racial inequities in health: The impact of COVID-19 in Wales and beyond
Health, Sports & Psychology

Racial inequities in health: The impact of COVID-19 in Wales and beyond

...research on COVID-19 with Black and minority ethnic communities in Wales. Written summary See all links referenced in the presentations Racial Inequities in health : the disproportionate impacts of COVID-19 on BME populations Research Characteristics and outcomes of pregnant women admitted to hospital with confirmed SARS-CoV-2 infection in UK: national population based...
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Enceladus: A habitable ice world?
Science, Maths & Technology

Enceladus: A habitable ice world?

...centre stage into the search for life in our Solar System.I am a first-year astrobiology PhD student at The Open University and the focus of my research is to investigate the habitability of Enceladus, one of the moons of Saturn. At 504km in diameter, Enceladus is roughly the size of France. Since the discovery of large, geyser-like plumes at its southern hemisphere,...
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