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Should the NHS try a Dutch model for social care?
Health, Sports & Psychology

Should the NHS try a Dutch model for social care?

...community nurses – with just 30 managers on its books. Staff costs per hour are higher but patients need 30% to 40% less contact time every month, the company claims, because care is directly responsive, changing on a day-to-day basis depending on what the patient needs. Nurses work in teams of ten, each serving a particular community and working closely with local GPs...
Free online resources for Ukrainians settling in the UK and Ireland
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Free online resources for Ukrainians settling in the UK and Ireland

...community of educational organisations, supporting students in the UK and globally. Many, like you, seeking to become Information Technology (IT) professionals struggle with the style of English used in this industry. To help you improve your prospects, develop confidence, and potentially become employable within this worldwide sector. Cisco, collaborating with The Open...
60 Years after the Treaty of Rome: Lessons from history for today's EU
Society, Politics & Law

60 Years after the Treaty of Rome: Lessons from history for today's EU

...Community (EEC), which later became the European Union (EU). 60 years later, leaders from across the EU’s 28 member states will again gather in Rome to celebrate the anniversary of the historic treaty. But the festivities will be dampened by multiple challenges currently facing the EU. Just four days after the anniversary the UK is set to trigger Article 50, formally...
15 facts about number 15
Education & Development

15 facts about number 15

...communication is key. In this free course, Communication and working relationships in sport and fitness, you will boost your ability to vary your communication approach according to the situation and the needs of the people involved. 6: Henry Addington was the 15th Prime Minister of the UK from 1801 to 1804 But how do you get the top job? This short video, How do you...
Methods in Motion: Developing psychosocially informed self-help on gender
Health, Sports & Psychology

Methods in Motion: Developing psychosocially informed self-help on gender

...communities; autoethnographic reflection; and creative dissemination. This time I want to reflect on one particular strand of the project: the book How to Understand Your Gender (2017 London: Jessica Kingsley), which I have written with scholar and psychotherapist Alex Iantaffi. The challenge here was very different to the previous project, producing critical sex advice....
Methods in Motion: Emotionally sensing knowledge
Health, Sports & Psychology

Methods in Motion: Emotionally sensing knowledge

...communicated between participants and researchers in interviews. We sought to build the confidence of team members by openly discussing emotions in team meetings and informally in the field. We learned that producing emotionally sensed knowledge also requires trust and depends on researchers’ epistemological and ontological stance, personalities, team power dynamics and...
Methods in Motion: Occupying spaces in Hong Kong and London
History & The Arts

Methods in Motion: Occupying spaces in Hong Kong and London

...community that would itself be the demand. I was struck by these differences, and noted that the method of communicating one-to-one in a neutral setting, as compared to a conversation that unfolds amidst a group in a space that holds affective significance for co-participants, pointed to two quite distinct epistemologies and ontologies. The interviews with Left 21...
COVID Chronicles from the Margins
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COVID Chronicles from the Margins

...communication enabled by smartphones have been key to establishing and sustaining personal and collective resilience under lockdown. Creative expression defines a sense of self, anchors the individual in the moment, strengthens existing communities and forges new ones. [A drawing of a woman in a sketchbook] Portrait of my mother: living under lockdown (Copyright - Amir...