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What is Critical Race Theory?
Education & Development

What is Critical Race Theory?

...health service, the criminal justice system and politics. CRT may provide avenues to interpret and understand how racism is operating in policing organisations and new ways to address and change structures and processes that perpetuate institutional and individual racism. References Bell, D. (1992) Faces at the Bottom of the Well: The Permanence of Racism. New York, NY:...
Left behind?
Society, Politics & Law

Left behind?

...health, and even homosexuality. Despite the ten per cent statistic, a recent event reminded me of how left-handedness is still something we struggle to live with. Just look at the latest Apple watch launched in September 2014. After the launch, Apple was inundated with thousands of complaints from left-handed people saying the watch was designed for right-handed people. I...
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A scenario on e-professionalism for nurses
Health, Sports & Psychology

A scenario on e-professionalism for nurses

...health and social care A nurse had been working with a patient who had a chronic venous leg ulcer for several years. All options of treatment that the medical staff were aware of had been tried and the ulcer was not improving. They discussed this with the patient and explained that there might be other dressings or treatments available, suggesting that a photograph be...
The 2018 Spring Statement: A first reaction
Society, Politics & Law

The 2018 Spring Statement: A first reaction

...public finances, to the extent that the government’s current budget has moved back into surplus. Brighter forecasts So the backdrop of a world economy that is performing more strongly than anticipated, alongside public finances that are in a better shape than expected, has allowed Hammond to bear glad tidings. At the time of the budget last November, the Office for...
Selling Empire: Introduction
History & The Arts

Selling Empire: Introduction

...publicity. In reality, it spent as much money on research as publicity, but it was the latter which lodged in the public mind. In its six-year life, it unleashed millions of posters, from a few gigantic billboard features, such as Highways of Empire (shown above, 1927), through cheap, reduced-size copies sent to thousands of schools and sold to the pubic, to miniature...
The impact of online media reporting of family crimes on children
Health, Sports & Psychology

The impact of online media reporting of family crimes on children

...public understand and perceive crimes, criminals and families of criminals. Research (Mercadal, 2023) highlights how the media serves as a primary source of information about crimes which can influence societal perceptions and influence attitudes and fears regarding safety and justice. Media representations of crimes are often selective, sensationalised and in some cases...
COVID-19 nursing and healthcare: learning to help you in practice
Health, Sports & Psychology

COVID-19 nursing and healthcare: learning to help you in practice

...NHS Wales or Health and Social Care in Northern Ireland, OpenLearn has a range of free courses available for you to refresh your knowledge and skills...All of our courses are free and you can start them when you want to, studying at your own pace. Some of the courses are badged, so you can print a certificate of completion and include the course on your LinkedIn profile....
Abortion stigma and the workplace
Health, Sports & Psychology

Abortion stigma and the workplace

...health). Abortions are extremely common: some 73 million take place worldwide annually (Bearak et al., 2020) and, in 2021, there were 214,256 abortions in England and Wales (Office of Health Improvement and Disparities, 2023). Except for the work done by Fiona Bloomer and colleagues (2017, 2023), in the Northern Irish context, little is known about abortion in UK...