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People with dementia and meaning in music
Health, Sports & Psychology

People with dementia and meaning in music

...social outlet for women and men living with the condition and their partners (or other family members). Making music can also help people come to terms with the diagnosis and cope with their condition (Osman et al, 2014). In turn, music can provide comfort and help them maintain a sense of self as the condition progresses (Commission on Music and Dementia, 2018). However,...
Methods in Motion: How do researchers know?
Society, Politics & Law

Methods in Motion: How do researchers know?

...social dreaming matrix to investigate the impact of art on climate change awareness. This topic too provides a methodological test case, because aesthetic experience eludes scientific or cognitive dominated methodologies; also because climate change is so painful to face that it needs methods going beyond denial, disavowal and projection. Free association narrative...
The Bottom Line Expert Opinion: The Volkswagen Scandal
Money & Business

The Bottom Line Expert Opinion: The Volkswagen Scandal

...social responsibility and governance. In this episode of Bottom Line, industry and finance leaders discuss the implications of this event. As the show reveals, this scandal has a number of different facets. These range from what actually occurred to specifics of the technology used to manipulate emission data to VW’s response to whether this problem extends to the car...
Systems explained by Humberto Maturana
Money & Business

Systems explained by Humberto Maturana

...worked with Humberto in Chile during the Allende years and later held chairs at Aston and Lincoln Universities and is the current Director General of WOSC (the World Organisation of Systems & Cybernetics) was also present and contributes to the conversation. The original filming was probably on Wednesday 12th March 1997. Humberto then presented a three-day workshop at...
What kind of Democrat are you?
Health, Sports & Psychology

What kind of Democrat are you?

...social media profiles, hashtags and offline we can create marches, sign e-petitions, and join social movements. With these new powers, come new challenges in the face of mobilisation towards political extremes, hate speech and polarisation. The OppAttune project has been working to up-skill the public to navigate how polarisation and extremism happens and how to develop...
Diverse Perspectives on Mental Health
Health, Sports & Psychology

Diverse Perspectives on Mental Health

...social, environmental, economic and political factors shape and constrain our understandings and experiences of mental health and distress. It explores the wide range of diverse and frequently competing perspectives that characterise the world of mental health and looks at the impact of these perspectives on mental health practice and service provision. In a set of...
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Society, Politics & Law

Advancing Black leadership

...social, community and work contexts. HIGHLIGHTEDREFERENT POWER Power comes from social standing. Community leaders can have power because people relate to them as reliable and/or inspirational. Trade union leaders can inspire workers to collectivise and take action. Other examples include celebrities and social media influencers. People can exert power from more than one...
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Young people are not apathetic
Society, Politics & Law

Young people are not apathetic

...Social Policy and Criminology, reflects on political change within the UK and the global response to economic inequalities young people face...[A protester at the Occupy Wall Street protest, 2011.] A protester at the Occupy Wall Street protest, 2011. Global discontent Inequality is one of, if not the biggest, problems of our time. Unfettered global capitalism has given...