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Methods in Motion: Introducing Methods in Motion
Society, Politics & Law

Methods in Motion: Introducing Methods in Motion

...social life. Yet we at CCIG would argue that researchers must go beyond meeting the intensified demand for new methods. Methods are important because what we know is changed by how we know it. Furthermore, the reasons why someone uses a particular method are linked to their wider ends and means; what makes useful knowledge in that specific field. Increasingly, the...
How can I support bereaved neurodivergent children?
Health, Sports & Psychology

How can I support bereaved neurodivergent children?

...Social Care courses and qualifications. Not everyone experiences grief in the same way. Whilst under-researched, there is evidence that neurodivergent people may experience grief, as well as the social practices around death and bereavement, differently from others. This is thought to be related to their neurodivergence – in the differences in how their brains process...
How can the arts improve health and wellbeing?
History & The Arts

How can the arts improve health and wellbeing?

...social change (Levine and Levine, 2011). Those working with survivors of conflict, violence or other forms of trauma often make use of the arts as an alternative means of approaching difficult topics or memories. Social prescribing One of the most significant developments related to health, wellbeing and the arts in the last few decades is the idea of ‘social...
Wholly Trinity: Abortion, Art and Activism in Ireland
OpenLearn Ireland

Wholly Trinity: Abortion, Art and Activism in Ireland

...work in the society in which they live, but also about the intensely social character of their interior lives. Ultimately, it can propel people toward social emancipation." (Angela Davis). This short film, produced collaboratively by The Open University, Alliance for Choice and The Array Collective explores the role that artists and creatives played in campaigning for...
What is child-led research and why is it important?
Education & Development

What is child-led research and why is it important?

...work] Imagine you are 12 years old and you are given the opportunity to learn how to do your own social research into a topic that inspires you. Your research will go beyond what is already known and what is available in books or online etc. It will be you creating new knowledge. You will think of a topic you want to explore, create a question you want to answer, decide...
Proper men, proper women: Gender roles in contemporary UK society
Health, Sports & Psychology

Proper men, proper women: Gender roles in contemporary UK society

...social sciences to refer to those female-male differences which are given by society and perpetuated through upbringing, as distinct from differences which are dictated by biology. It might have seemed obvious that the non-biological differences could be erased more easily. Perhaps this is why there's a widespread general assumption that, in the UK at least, many former...
Trust in the Workplace
Health, Sports & Psychology

Trust in the Workplace

...work, and their economic security impacts their social and political attitudes and behaviours. A lack of trust predictably can lead to tribalism, conflict, and lack of cooperation with the social good. The COVID-19 pandemic of 2020/2021 has in this sense provided a glimpse of a future in which relationships are rapidly changing, in which taken for granted notions of...
David Bowie faces the last taboo
History & The Arts

David Bowie faces the last taboo

...work showed him taking on the taboo of death with the vigour he'd used to break barriers of gender and identity, says Elizabeth Tilley...Listening last night to Blackstar – David Bowie’s final album, released just three days before his death - I was struck by its beauty, but also its pace and freneticism. These tracks, like all those that preceded them, had something...