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Diversity in Education: Challenging the Norm in Academic Recruitment
Education & Development

Diversity in Education: Challenging the Norm in Academic Recruitment

...research, student participants across 99 universities were asked about relevant contributing factors to any ethnicity attainment gaps – the highest response (87%) was the lack of HE role models representing all ethnic groups. The research goes on to identify that having a more diverse workforce is a key factor to addressing the attainment gap (Universities UK, 2019)....
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Explore your digestive system
Nature & Environment

Explore your digestive system

An interactive exploration of how the digestive system works...Take it further Try one of our delicious recipes. Discover the new approach to health offered by healthy living centres.
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Is blocking migrant benefits missing the point?
Society, Politics & Law

Is blocking migrant benefits missing the point?

...Centre Plus on a grey cold day] The pull of the JobCentrePlus benefits advisor's desk is largely irrelevant in discussions about Europe's migration crisis The sideshow Meanwhile, UK prime minister David Cameron is trying to renegotiate Britain’s EU membership. He now appears to have come a step closer to a deal that would restrict state support for EU migrants working...
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Introducing social work: a starter kit
Health, Sports & Psychology

Introducing social work: a starter kit

...children to a play centre, and we went down some slides together and had lunch together, but within that I actually received quite a serious disclosure in the car, and that’s a relationship that I’ve developed over the last year within a child protection plan. So I think a key part of that is developing a really meaningful relationship with children in a very...
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Level 3: Advanced 12 hrs
FGM: Mental Health impact and CBT
Health, Sports & Psychology

FGM: Mental Health impact and CBT

...centred support, including specialist psychotherapy and psychosexual therapy delivered by clinicians trained in FGM‑related trauma, particularly around gynaecological, obstetric and reconstructive procedures. Mental health support and regular debriefing should also be available for healthcare professionals supporting FGM survivors, to help prevent vicarious trauma,...
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Applying to study for a PhD in psychology
Health, Sports & Psychology

Applying to study for a PhD in psychology

...research groups and centres if those have a focus that interests you. Another useful approach is to find conferences related to your interests (British Psychological Society Section websites can be useful) then follow up the names of presenters. If you already have a university in mind, you will need to check whether your proposed research fits into its psychology...
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Level 3: Advanced 6 hrs
Social work: Effective practice with substance abusing parents
Health, Sports & Psychology

Social work: Effective practice with substance abusing parents

...Children' we saw Fay and Micky, who have long-standing substance misuse problems seriously affecting their ability to parent effectively, go into a family residential treatment unit with their young son. There are a range of challenges and dilemmas for both social workers and other professionals when working with families where there is problematic substance misuse...
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Data analysis and interpretation
Education & Development

Data analysis and interpretation

...research data from a perspective that promotes Equity, Diversity and Inclusion (EDI). It offers some pointers to researchers in any field...‘There are always vacancies: there are always roads not taken, vistas not acknowledged. The search must be ongoing; the end can never be quite known’ (Greene, 2000, p. 15). Data analysis is an essential part of any research...
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