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Child mental health: is it in crisis?
Health, Sports & Psychology

Child mental health: is it in crisis?

...et al., 2021). Common mental health problems for children and young people can span emotional symptoms, conduct or behavioural problems, hyperactivity-inattention and peer relationship problems, or any combination of these. An increasingly prominent issue post COVID-19 is school refusal (a reluctance or refusal of a child or young person to attend school which results in...
Building relationships with donors
Money & Business

Building relationships with donors

...motivation - There is no such thing as a common donor motivation that organisations can simply tap into. Altruism, enlightened self-interest, nostalgia, righteous indignation, or even fear may come into it. And this variety is matched by the various ways in which a donor's generosity can be called upon. The ‘ask’ can take a whole variety of forms – a phone call...
Introduction to critical criminology
Society, Politics & Law

Introduction to critical criminology

...et al., 2003, p. 69). As a result, Kropotkin motivated later social science critiques of ‘the state’ and is credited with providing the ideological foundations of abolitionist thinking. Numerous critical commentaries outside of academia have also been part of the on-going development of critical criminology as well as broader critical narratives that have occurred...
Hybrid working: starting in the workplace
Money & Business

Hybrid working: starting in the workplace

...et al., 2021). These are all areas you should think about before you start your new role. In the following videos you will hear from Ploy and Zainab at iungo Solutions again, this time discussing important considerations around behaviour, culture, support and workspaces in remote or hybrid-first organisations. PORNNARAI NILDUANG: Hi, my name's Ploy. I work for iungo...
Children and violence: an introductory, international and interdisciplinary approach
Society, Politics & Law

Children and violence: an introductory, international and interdisciplinary approach

...et al., 1999, p. 121). It is further claimed that sixteen children commit suicide in the UK each year as a result of bullying (Marr and Field, 2001). Yet it is only fairly recently that bullying has been recognized as a serious problem and seen as a form of violence against children. There has been a tendency among adults to see it as playing or teasing which occasionally...
Race and Youth Policy: working with young people
Education & Development

Race and Youth Policy: working with young people

...motivated by the fact that its funding is directly linked to the existence of mechanisms for consulting young people. The quality of the consultation process will probably be strongly influenced by the extent to which this is a matter of principle which runs right through the organisation’s processes and procedures, or a pragmatic and tokenistic response to funding...
Exploring how migration changes the places where we live
Society, Politics & Law

Exploring how migration changes the places where we live

...et al 2018): people don’t relate to each other anymore as members of the same community, but instead called upon to become either border guard or suspect of being an undocumented migrant. The hostile environment policy has come under public criticism in the wake of the scandal surrounding the Windrush Generation of British citizens and migrants from the Caribbean who...
Studying medicine bilingually
Health, Sports & Psychology

Studying medicine bilingually

...et cetera. So, if we look at work experience, it can be anything. It could be work experience in a hospital, which is a traditional way that medical students come into medical school but it’s important to remember that there are some areas of the country without a district general hospital, for example, Powys in Wales, and those students making an application to medical...
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