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Telling Tales: what is happening on police Facebook sites?
Society, Politics & Law

Telling Tales: what is happening on police Facebook sites?

...social media use by police forces since the late noughties, there hasn’t been a great deal of published research into these online interactions. Online communication can be an effective way to capture community sentiments regarding police work. With the right investment, it is an exciting opportunity to allow communities and police to work effectively together...There...
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What LGBTQ+ Relationships Can Teach Us About Love
Health, Sports & Psychology

What LGBTQ+ Relationships Can Teach Us About Love

...social, cultural and legal changes via respectful debate, patience and listening to the views or our opponents. I’d also like to take this opportunity to acknowledge how, in doing so, the LGBTQ+ community has learnt a lot about what makes relationships work, and researchers now have hundreds of studies under their belt for why this is. Download the Paired app for LGBTQ+...
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The Scottish Women’s Herring Strike in Great Yarmouth in the 1930s and 1940s
Society, Politics & Law

The Scottish Women’s Herring Strike in Great Yarmouth in the 1930s and 1940s

...Social Sciences courses. Herring women and girls in inter-war Scotland During the 1930s and 1940s a transient group of Scottish women travelled to Great Yarmouth, East Anglia, following the migration of herring shoals down the North Sea. In many of the documents and photographs that are available from the time, these herring women are referred to as ‘the herring...
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Protest Banners: Women's Suffrage
Society, Politics & Law

Protest Banners: Women's Suffrage

...work. The Women’s Social and Political Union held a demonstration in Hyde Park the following week. Elizabeth Robins wrote in the Daily Mail that ‘The moment of entering the Park was a thing to remember. Thousands of banners were shining in the sunlight of a perfect afternoon…’ These women knew about spectacle. At that Hyde Park demonstration, bugles gave a...
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Arwen Bailey On Using Systems Thinking In Practice
Nature & Environment

Arwen Bailey On Using Systems Thinking In Practice

...working in the field of agricultural research for development at the Alliance of Bioversity International and the International Center for Tropical Agriculture (CIAT). Arwen is amongst our first group of postgraduate STiP alumni having enrolled with the launch of the two core modules in 2010 Thinking strategically (TU811) and Managing systemic change (TU812) precursors to...
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Supporting young researchers with 'MyShout!'
Education & Development

Supporting young researchers with 'MyShout!'

...social research. It was designed by Dr Cindy Kerawalla and a group of young researchers. MyShout! divides research into 8 easily digestible stages. Young researchers can work their way through the activities in each stage, usually with some face-to-face support from an adult, and learn how to create, design and carry out their own social research into a ­­topic that...
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Design is open
Science, Maths & Technology

Design is open

...social and environmental challenges. In the UK alone, over 1.6 million people—about 1 in every 20 workers—are employed in design roles, with more than 77% applying their skills in new and sometimes unexpected areas such as healthcare, digital services, finance, business innovation, and public services (Design Council, 2022). Design is in demand, because it is about...
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Design and Sustainability
Science, Maths & Technology

Design and Sustainability

...social and environmental consequences. This album also reveals how new product ideas and inventions are tested before they’re turned into commercially viable products. You may also want to explore the albums "Energy and Sustainability" and "Sustainable Communities". This material is taken from The Open University Course T307 Innovation: designing for a sustainable...
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