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Do we really listen to children and young people?
Education & Development

Do we really listen to children and young people?

...concept, participation is complex, rarely questioned within a critical arena and often tokenistic in practice. Discussions on participation are synonymous with many claims - from providing opportunities for personal and social growth, learning and development, to basic human rights and democracy. Yet our research shows that this all too often this glosses over complex...
Shifting notions of trauma-informed practice: from the individual to the organisation
Society, Politics & Law

Shifting notions of trauma-informed practice: from the individual to the organisation

...concept of trauma-informed (TI) practice originated in healthcare and with the recognition that differing notions of trauma affect patients in unique ways. It has now become apparent that for individuals to provide a TI approach to their service users, organisations also need to portray and deliver this ethos with their employees. In policing this is aligned with what we...
How happiness is challenging GDP as the measure of a country’s health
Society, Politics & Law

How happiness is challenging GDP as the measure of a country’s health

...concepts we can see what individuals are able to do at home, in work and socially, as well as their physical environments and the services they can access. Comparing what different countries value can be revealing. We found that Americans, for example, report being better able to get help from the police compared with people from the UK, whereas there is a substantial...
Uncanny valley: why we find human-like robots and dolls so creepy
Society, Politics & Law

Uncanny valley: why we find human-like robots and dolls so creepy

...concept. Academics are even engaged in an active debate as to whether the uncanny valley exists at all – Jari Kätsyri and colleagues recently reviewed the evidence and drew the conclusion that the effect remains elusive. Either way, the debate has not yet been won – although perhaps the most compelling evidence for the existence of the uncanny valley has just been...
Welcome to nowhere special
Languages

Welcome to nowhere special

...concept of “banal nationalism”. Banal nationalism refers to the mundane discourses – flags, maps, national references, etc. – that enact national belonging in everyday life. Similarly, banal cosmopolitanism refers to mundane discourses that enact globalization in everyday life. Banal cosmopolitanism is apparent in the “mediatization and consumption of spatially...
How do we learn language?
Education & Development

How do we learn language?

...conception, while they are still inside the womb. By week 37 of pregnancy, prenatal babies not only show a preference to listen to their mother’s voice, but towards any speaker of their native language. Once born, infants continue the process of homing in on their target language, for example, many studies have shown that young infants can distinguish a wider range of...
Learning How To Learn: Words from the Wise
Education & Development

Learning How To Learn: Words from the Wise

...concept, don’t be afraid to seek help. This is especially important on a distance learning course where your tutor is less likely to see your furrowed brow and pained expression than he or she would in a physical classroom. It is important, therefore, to keep in contact with your tutor. Too often, distance learning is seen as something which people undertake alone. In...
How should Rwanda remember the genocide?
History & The Arts

How should Rwanda remember the genocide?

...concept of justice than punishing perpetrators. And there is a huge desire for spaces for dialogue about how memories of genocide emerge impact everyday life. These spaces would bring together survivors, perpetrators, returnees, and ordinary citizens. There is also a great desire for knowledge about how to use these memories to seek justice, validation, and promote...