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Sarah Everard murder: the problem with the government’s plan to make women ‘feel’ safer
Society, Politics & Law

Sarah Everard murder: the problem with the government’s plan to make women ‘feel’ safer

...money (and not very much) into new methods of “keeping safe”. These criticisms are not new. The Reclaim the Night movement originated from women’s resistance against curfews imposed on them in light of violent acts by men. Similar protests erupted in the aftermath of Everard’s death. How many more times do women have to take these measures, and how many more women...
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How is a bench helping improve mental health in Zimbabwe?
Health, Sports & Psychology

How is a bench helping improve mental health in Zimbabwe?

...money," Patel told SciDev.Net. "This is not even a research question worth exploring any more: the real question is how to take this innovation to scale." Staff shortages are a major obstacle to mental healthcare in many developing countries, where the majority patients cannot access treatment. In Zimbabwe, just 10 psychiatrists are on hand to care for about four million...
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Is being a student good for your mental health?
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Is being a student good for your mental health?

...money. Furthermore, being part of a supportive social network increases the likelihood of students seeking help from counsellors, general practitioners and other professional sources when their problems start to feel too much for them (Kenny et al., 2016). So one thing that universities and colleges can do to enhance the mental health of their students is to find as many...
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Growing plants, growing communities: Climate Camp, Veggie Gardens and Local Politics
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Growing plants, growing communities: Climate Camp, Veggie Gardens and Local Politics

...money, voice and body to good purpose – making public concern with climate change visible and establishing a viable, if temporary, low environmental-impact community. At the Lewes site, local residents were encouraged to take part in creating vegetable and flower beds; a 'Royal Weeding Day'; to help erect some camping essentials; like composting toilets; a 'rocket...
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Dogs under the microscope
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Dogs under the microscope

...money, drugs etc. Our ability to smell comes from protein in our noses that detects chemicals that evaporate from substances. These proteins are coded for by olfactory genes and as smell is so important, there are a lot of them in most mammals. Do you know how many numbers of genes you have that encode smell receptors? The platypus has 260, humans have 380, dogs have 800,...
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An uncomfortable truth: How Britain has criminalised rough sleepers
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An uncomfortable truth: How Britain has criminalised rough sleepers

...money from the public. Hostile streets This is the work of successive governments. Civil orders introduced under Tony Blair to target “street-crime” effectively led to a clampdown on begging, which sanctioned homeless communities en masse. When the coalition government came to power in 2010, these civil orders were amended to give local authorities even greater powers...
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The 2018 Spring Statement: A first reaction
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The 2018 Spring Statement: A first reaction

...money that owed to itself. Nevertheless a lower debt to GDP ratio does offer the government more scope to fight the next crisis whenever that might come. One option would be to allow economic growth to bring this 80% debt to GDP figure down over time – simply by letting the denominator (that is, GDP) rise. But Hammond wishes to continue to work on reducing the numerator...
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Five things you might like to know about Recovery Colleges
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Five things you might like to know about Recovery Colleges

...money, moving towards other education or employment Training, advocacy and peer-support skills 2. When did Recovery Colleges start? According to Meddings et al. (2015) ‘The first Recovery College was established in 2009 by Rachel Perkins in South West London and a second College was quickly established in Nottingham’. You can see a video about the first recovery...
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