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An uncomfortable truth: How Britain has criminalised rough sleepers
Society, Politics & Law

An uncomfortable truth: How Britain has criminalised rough sleepers

...Public Spaces Protection Orders (PSPOs), governments have been passing new laws and reviving old ones which result in the punishment of people with no fixed abode. People without access to land or property are denied the freedom to roam, sit, eat, wash or sleep in public spaces. Or, where local authorities do lawfully permit street homeless people to access and use public...
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Britain’s dark history of criminalising the homeless
Society, Politics & Law

Britain’s dark history of criminalising the homeless

...Public Spaces Protection Orders (PSPOs), governments have been passing new laws and reviving old ones which result in the punishment of people with no fixed abode. People without access to land or property are denied the freedom to roam, sit, eat, wash or sleep in public spaces. Or, where local authorities do lawfully permit street homeless people to access and use public...
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Talking about weight in therapy – Top tips for size affirmative practice
Health, Sports & Psychology

Talking about weight in therapy – Top tips for size affirmative practice

...Health at Every Size’ by Linda Bacon and ‘Body Respect’ by Linda Bacon and Lucy Aphramor. These books and other critical perspectives opened my eyes to the ways in which larger people, including myself, are marginalised because of their size. This ultimately led me to my current research drawing on clients’ and therapists’ experiences which support the...
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Direct-to-consumer (DTC) genetic testing
Science, Maths & Technology

Direct-to-consumer (DTC) genetic testing

...health and ancestry, to whether someone is likely to prefer chocolate or vanilla ice cream. But what can these tests actually tell us?...Transcript Have you ever heard of direct-to-consumer, or DTC, genetic tests? These tests can be bought and carried out at home, just by spitting in a tube. DTC genetic tests often promise to reveal things about our health, heritage, and...
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A brief history of sex education
Health, Sports & Psychology

A brief history of sex education

...Health and Wellbeing courses and qualifications. There is still a great deal we don’t know about the history of sex education. The research that has been done is largely about school sex education during the 20th century. School sex education is important, yet most of us learn little of what we know about sex from our schooling. We learn it from friends, from family...
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Five pillars of ageing well
Health, Sports & Psychology

Five pillars of ageing well

...Health and Social Care courses and qualifications. As part of the Ageing Well series of Public Talks, I am exploring how important it is, over our lifespan, to maintain a well-balanced nutrition and hydration as well as regular physical and social activity in the older age. As we know we start ageing the moment we are born, it demonstrates more significantly when we reach...
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OpenMinds-Talk: What does Brexit tell us about Britain?
Miscellaneous

OpenMinds-Talk: What does Brexit tell us about Britain?

...public debate on Brexit over or does the public still have the right to a say? Representing The Open University are: Dr Richard Heffernan, Reader in Government, Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences , who joined The Open University in 1999 and has held visiting appointments at the Center for European Studies, Harvard University, the University of California, Los Angeles and...
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Lisa Sargood - Earth in Vision
Nature & Environment

Lisa Sargood - Earth in Vision

...health, and apply it to nature conservation. And I’d really like to see if there’s a network of interested parties, and of course, disciplines, because I’m very cross-disciplinary in my thinking about optimal collaboration, whether we could create a network that would drive digital technology solutions for nature conservation to really have an impact. Should natural...
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