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Music as therapy in nineteenth-century Scotland
History & The Arts

Music as therapy in nineteenth-century Scotland

...course is pursued in the preparation and production of every amusement, and involves the whole theory and practice of reunions of the insane. (Eighth Annual Report, 11 November 1847, pp. 35–6) Thus, it wasn’t just performing and listening to music that formed part of the therapeutic activity at the Crichton. All the elements of preparation and decision-making, which...
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Jim Skea - Stories of Change
Nature & Environment

Jim Skea - Stories of Change

...course for the cost of the installation which is a different issue, how far and how fast do you think solar can go. IEA, I think, were predicting 50% of solar by 2050, is that realistic? JS: Yeah, that’s quite probable. It’s worthwhile mentioning I would now regard the standard photovoltaic panel as pretty mature technology, it’s based on crystalline silicone; there...
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Abbie Barnes - Earth in Vision
Nature & Environment

Abbie Barnes - Earth in Vision

...course everybody has mobile phones, they’ve got a little camcorder, just some form of technology on them to be able to produce a film, to take pictures. So as a young person I’d say, do you know, I just think it’s absolutely fantastic being able to get into this industry now with everything that’s available; I don’t think there’s really a better time for it...
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Question Time for Yanis Varoufakis
Society, Politics & Law

Question Time for Yanis Varoufakis

...course clear that Greece did not fulfil them. But then again nor did Italy or Belgium. Conversely, Spain and Ireland did meet the criteria and, indeed, by 2007 the Madrid and Dublin governments were registering deficit, debt and inflation numbers that, according to the official criteria, were better than Germany’s. And yet when the crisis hit, Spain and Ireland sunk...
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James Smith - Earth in Vision
Nature & Environment

James Smith - Earth in Vision

...free reign. I was only the researcher, but we able to pretty much decide where we going to go and what we were going to do without any interference from on high and we took some risks and it was broadcast without much scrutiny either. It wasn’t like today where we have innumerable execs and commissioners pouring over it, and the film went out with very low expectation...
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How can honour killings be stopped?
Health, Sports & Psychology

How can honour killings be stopped?

...courses and qualifications [The UK government's Ending Violence against Women and Girls strategy] The 2016 strategy paper from the UK Home Office on ending violence against women and girls, introduced by the-then Home Secretary Theresa May The ‘honour’ killing of Banaz Mahmod represents the tragic consequences of the failure of state and minority communities to tackle...
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Virtual reality, 19th Century style: The history of the panorama and balloon view
History & The Arts

Virtual reality, 19th Century style: The history of the panorama and balloon view

...course, this was still an image, but every effort was made to support the illusion that the visitor had been transported to the very point from which the image had been captured. Barker claimed the view was “the same as if on the spot”. Sometimes this “spot” was actually physically recreated in the panorama’s rotunda, to form the viewing platform, as is the case...
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EPQs: designing your research question
Education & Development

EPQs: designing your research question

...course, but also for those who will read your dissertation or watch your final presentation. The ‘ten words’ technique and exercise. Developing a research question is a cycle of refining, considering and re-stating. You will have to go round a few times until you settle on something you’re happy with. One tool you can use to develop a draft research question is...
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