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How are social workers portrayed in the media?
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How are social workers portrayed in the media?

...accountable. But is the entertainment media any different? Plot device in TV dramas My second study focused on how social workers are portrayed in TV dramas and compared this with portrayals of other professions such as nurses, teachers, police officers and therapists. I looked at IMDb plot summaries from the 1950s to the 2010s and found that social work characters rarely...
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How to read the news
Society, Politics & Law

How to read the news

...accounts, it can be useful to look at who funds them, and what this funding or governance is likely to mean for the perspective they’re taking on events. On Twitter, for example, posts by state-media organisations are flagged as such, because they’re often used by those in power in those countries to push a particular political agenda. 3. Read more than just the...
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How happiness is challenging GDP as the measure of a country’s health
Society, Politics & Law

How happiness is challenging GDP as the measure of a country’s health

...account. [Colours of Finland] Research suggests the people of Finland are the happiest Integrating these subjective indicators into an overarching framework of happiness and progress is not easy, however. How do you compare and weigh the importance of the quality of your social relations with whether your waste has been collected? In terms of well-being, both matter. The...
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What do volcanoes tell us about the possibility of life on Mars?
Science, Maths & Technology

What do volcanoes tell us about the possibility of life on Mars?

...account for their fresh appearance, in contrast to mud volcanoes, which would be more vulnerable to erosion. The findings are exciting for many reasons. Volcanism this young on Mars suggests there’s still some volcanic action on the planet – and there could still be volcanoes forming today. Astrobiological potential So far, the team have obtained compositional...
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Children's University - Free online courses
Education & Development

Children's University - Free online courses

...account and then come back to this page. Choose a course from the list below or browse the wider OpenLearn website. Once you’ve chosen a course, you’ll see it is labelled with the number of hours it should take to complete, make a note of this for later. Work through the course at your own pace. When you finish the course, you can download a certificate or a digital...
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10 tips to beat the January blues
Health, Sports & Psychology

10 tips to beat the January blues

...accounts have a negative impact on your mood and unfollow them, avoid social media use an hour before bed and when you first wake up in the morning. Article: How to manage the digital-related stress of technology 8: Sleep well [person asleep in bed with their feet poking out of the duvet] Sleep is crucial to our wellbeing and experts sugget avoiding watching TV in your...
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Music and mental health: the parallels between Victorian asylum treatments and modern social prescribing
Health, Sports & Psychology

Music and mental health: the parallels between Victorian asylum treatments and modern social prescribing

...Accounts suggest that patients benefited from the anticipation of these social engagements and that events were used to reward good behaviour. Music was also used to break up the monotony of asylum life. For example, at one private asylum, Dr Alfred Wood, wrote: These entertainments involved a great amount of trouble in their preparation and arrangement and, I may add,...
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How do Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic students experience their undergraduate dissertation module?
Education & Development

How do Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic students experience their undergraduate dissertation module?

...accounted for (see, for example, Richardson et al., 2015). So it’s not because Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic students are not sufficiently qualified when they start their degree. Which begs the question: What is happening at university that contributes to Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic students getting lower grades? [two graduates hugging] To try and get an answer...
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