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Five pillars of ageing well
Health, Sports & Psychology

Five pillars of ageing well

...circulating. Here we are helped mainly with good hydration (drinking plenty) and regular physical activity. Physical activity does not always means running, swimming or going to the gym or attend classes. It is even better if we do but may not be suitable for all for us. Being physically active means also not avoiding stairs and walking somewhere where we need to go...
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CARE-KNOW-DO for Social and Emotional Learning: building children’s resilience and agency in crisis settings
Education & Development

CARE-KNOW-DO for Social and Emotional Learning: building children’s resilience and agency in crisis settings

...et al., 2018). How to implement ‘CARE’ Train facilitators to recognise and respond to signs of distress in children. Establish predictable routines and rituals that foster a sense of belonging. Use SELIC to prompt observation and dialogue – for example, ‘Do you feel safe?’ or ‘Do you feel comfortable?’ with response options ranging from ‘a little’ to...
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Supporting young trans people’s rights to health and happiness
Education & Development

Supporting young trans people’s rights to health and happiness

...et al., 2021). Many GPs refuse to refer children for specialist treatment, or to administer prescribed medication. Referral letters go awry. Even after a first appointment, children can wait months to be assessed and start receiving any medical treatment. Professionals often have rigid, binary notions of gender that mean young people need to perform a stereotypical...
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Eating for the environment
Nature & Environment

Eating for the environment

...et al., 2017). Even though the policies on food focus on feeding 9 billion people by 2050, in reality food is not distributed equally and some people have poorer access to food than others. In addition to the accessibility of food, affordability is also important. However, for hundreds of millions of people in the world, the cost of sufficient and nutritious food can be...
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Level 2: Intermediate 8 hrs
Introduction to critical criminology
Society, Politics & Law

Introduction to critical criminology

...et al., 1973). It is here that the story of critical criminology begins. It is important to recognise that much of the ‘criminological project’ has been characterised by knowledges developing either in parallel – or in response to – changing social conditions. New knowledges in criminology seldom completely replace old ones. Innovative approaches and ways of...
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Level 3: Advanced 2 hrs
Why do voters allow corrupt politicians to stay in office?
Society, Politics & Law

Why do voters allow corrupt politicians to stay in office?

...double in size – enough to cost the large majority of corrupt politicians their reelection. However, even this miraculous across-the-board increase in voters’ political awareness would have limits. The most attentive voters in the US are also the most partisan. That is, those who know and understand the most about a politician’s transgression are also those who care...
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Is ‘Barbenheimer’ going to save cinema?
History & The Arts

Is ‘Barbenheimer’ going to save cinema?

...double bill as a bit of fun. The Barbenheimer phenomenon suggests that audiences also want to be challenged. But we should be wary about focusing too intently on Hollywood when we talk about global cinema, for India (Bollywood) and Nigeria (Nollywood) among others, have economically successful film industries that are not always subject to the same problems. At the very...
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What is a digital carbon footprint?
Nature & Environment

What is a digital carbon footprint?

...doubling in capacity every year. This is the crux of the challenge with digital carbon footprints – our use of and dependency on digital isn’t stable, or growing slowly, it is growing exponentially. Fuelled by both the rapid increase in digitalisation brought about by the pandemic and our false assumption that digital is carbon-free (or thereabouts), the impact of our...
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