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Literature and the Environment
Nature & Environment

Literature and the Environment

...writing. A flood provides the climax to George Eliot’s The Mill on the Floss (1860). The first paragraph of Margery Allingham’s crime novel The Tiger in the Smoke (1952) introduces the smog that hides the killer as he makes his murderous way around the city: ‘The fog was like a saffron blanket soaked in ice-water. It had hung over London all day and at last, was...
I-SPY: Find out more about the research on Internet infidelity
Health, Sports & Psychology

I-SPY: Find out more about the research on Internet infidelity

...write in detail about their experiences with Internet infidelity. Unlike most prior research in the area, the study recruited people who had experienced Internet infidelity – either having engaged in it themselves or having found out that their partner had indulged. The findings showed that many participants think that the internet makes infidelity more likely....
The story of infection
Health, Sports & Psychology

The story of infection

...symptoms but not the virus itself and at the time of writing, there is no vaccine for Covid-19. So in the battle between humanity and nature, nature seems to retain the upper hand. We need to work hard to keep up and continue to develop new ways of dealing with infectious agents because you can be sure there are more pathogens out there, waiting for their moment to come....
Teaching Languages for long-term memory
Languages

Teaching Languages for long-term memory

...writing and speaking tasks...Why is memory so important? ‘Working memory’ refers to the very limited number of thoughts we can hold in our minds at once. Working memory is easily overloaded so instead we tend to rely on our memories. For example, drivers don’t have to think in detail about the process of driving; they learnt it and now they simply do it from memory....
From Pakistan to Britain: Identity and Belonging
Society, Politics & Law

From Pakistan to Britain: Identity and Belonging

...we have to create or find a place where we belong. I think we shouldn’t be living somewhere we don’t belong. At the time of writing, Anila worked for Shakti Women's Aid in Edinburgh. This organisation helps BAME women, children and young people who are experiencing, or have experienced, domestic abuse from a partner, ex-partner and/or other members of their household....
A National Health Service or an International Health Service?: South Asian geriatricians
Society, Politics & Law

A National Health Service or an International Health Service?: South Asian geriatricians

...writing about how to improve patient care reset the path of geriatrics in the UK and, eventually, more widely in the world. South Asian Heritage is thus woven into the fabric of this most British institution, the National Health Service. Acknowledgement: The study 'Overseas-trained doctors and the development of geriatric medicine', ESRC funded RES -062-23-0514 explored...
Afterword to Representing Religions: Race, Rationality, Colonialism and Anthropology
History & The Arts

Afterword to Representing Religions: Race, Rationality, Colonialism and Anthropology

...G.E. (eds) Writing Culture: The Poetics and Politics of Ethnography, Berkeley: University of California Press. Tremlett, P.-F. (2020) Towards a New Theory of Religion and Social Change: Sovereignties and Disruptions, Bloomsbury: London. Williams, F. E. (1977) ‘The Vailala Madness’ and Other Essays. Honolulu: The University Press of Hawaii. More related free resources...
Introducing ageing
Health, Sports & Psychology

Introducing ageing

...Write a paragraph about your own experiences of ageing so far. You could write about: whether you feel the same age as your age in years (your chronological age) how you would describe your current age how other people affect your sense of your own ageing how changes to your body make you aware of your ageing what you are looking forward to about growing older what you...
Level 1: Introductory 11 hrs