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Ordinary dying and the Queen: Reflections on a case study
Health, Sports & Psychology

Ordinary dying and the Queen: Reflections on a case study

...concept of dying that has been around in healthcare for decades. Dr Mannix has used the term ordinary dying to describe the modern dying process where symptoms are controlled well and people die peacefully. However, she observes that both those who are dying and those that care for them do not expect this ordinary death and therefore don’t recognise this as normal...
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Calculating your carbon footprint
Nature & Environment

Calculating your carbon footprint

...concept of the carbon footprint Transcript There are different ways of measuring the carbon footprint. The production perspective counts the GHG emissions produced by different sectors of a country’s economy – energy supply, manufacturing, transport, agriculture, construction, banking, health services, etc. From this perspective the producers of goods and services...
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Five things you might like to know about Recovery Colleges
Health, Sports & Psychology

Five things you might like to know about Recovery Colleges

...concept of recovery in mental health is that it is ‘a way of living a satisfying, hopeful and contributing life even with the limitations caused by illness. Recovery involved the development of new meaning and purpose in one’s life as one grows beyond the catastrophic effects of mental illness.’ (Anthony, 1993). Although many mainstream mental health services have...
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Methods in Motion: Occupying spaces in Hong Kong and London
History & The Arts

Methods in Motion: Occupying spaces in Hong Kong and London

...conceptions of politics: Left 21 is a conventional political pressure group that seeks to represent specific political demands as a means of securing policy-level political change. By contrast, FM 101 activists saw the protest as an opportunity to establish a community that would itself be the demand. I was struck by these differences, and noted that the method of...
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Music as a Source of Unity: When Rory Gallagher Came to Belfast
History & The Arts

Music as a Source of Unity: When Rory Gallagher Came to Belfast

...concepts of Irishness could be extremely divisive outside of the Ulster Hall, within, a different type of Irishness was encouraged. An Irishness that was not bound with politics or religion, but was fluid and heavily anchored in music and collective memories, enabling all other connotations to be temporarily suspended. The importance of Gallagher’s music to Belfast is...
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What is Critical Race Theory?
Education & Development

What is Critical Race Theory?

...concept and analytical framework to analyse how aspects of a person's social and political identities/social characterisations, such as race, ethnicity, class, gender, sexual orientation, religion, ability/disability, among others, combine to create different modes of privilege/discrimination and advantage/disadvantage. Recently, CRT has become a controversial theory and...
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Ethnicity as a Learning Tool
Education & Development

Ethnicity as a Learning Tool

...concepts race and ethnicity in a higher educational context cannot be fully understood without exploring the institutional structural system used to address equality and diversity. Challenge 2: Inequitable learning attainment [Student graduating wearing academic dress] Ethnicity is contributing to the widening gap in learning attainment as is evident in the recent...
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60 Second Adventures in Artificial Intelligence
Digital & Computing

60 Second Adventures in Artificial Intelligence

...concept of thinking machines dates back to antiquity. Renaissance craftsmen built complex automatons to try to simulate intelligent behaviour. However, the possibility of genuine Artificial Intelligence (AI) had to wait until the arrival of programmable computers in the twentieth century. Since then there have been several failed attempts. That was until the advent of...
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