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Embodied Intersectionality and British South Asian Muslim Women
Society, Politics & Law

Embodied Intersectionality and British South Asian Muslim Women

...everyday spaces of home, work and public spaces for British South Asian (BSA) Muslim women. What do we mean by embodied and intersectionality, and why might these be useful concepts to think about when we study the experiences of ethnic minority communities? Embodied differences Let’s start with embodied or embodiment. To embody is to represent an idea or quality...
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How does Coronation Street bring politics home?
Society, Politics & Law

How does Coronation Street bring politics home?

...everyday life. We focused in particular on a 2007 storyline in Coronation Street about conflicts between English and Polish workers at a garment factory. Our interpretive coding of the 10 episodes featuring the storyline uncovered four key themes: race, gender, fear, and political agency. By continually returning to these themes without offering any resolution, the soap...
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Seeing the bigger picture: exploring the stories of children from migrant backgrounds
Education & Development

Seeing the bigger picture: exploring the stories of children from migrant backgrounds

...English nursery, who were asked to make images of special people, days out, toys, cooking, FaceTime calls to family in home countries, friends and more. I worked closely with the children’s teacher, practitioners and parents to listen to children’s photo conversations and the making of their personalised photo storybooks. Stories are conveyed through the layered...
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Free employability and training courses to support your Kickstart Scheme journey – for candidates and employers
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Free employability and training courses to support your Kickstart Scheme journey – for candidates and employers

...Everyday Skills for Life from good mental health through to managing money. We also offer courses in improving a learner’s basic maths and English and advice in writing CV’s and attending interviews to help Kickstart employees into sustainable employment should they progress permanently into an organisation from their existing Kickstart placement or need support for...
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Pineapples and Pashto: building intercultural competence through Peace Education
Education & Development

Pineapples and Pashto: building intercultural competence through Peace Education

...everyday relationships with each other. What is intercultural competence? Peace and intercultural competence are intermingled in United Nations Sustainable Development Goal 4:7, which calls for the ‘…promotion of a culture of peace and non-violence, global citizenship, and appreciation of cultural diversity and of culture’s contribution to sustainable
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Welcome to nowhere special
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Welcome to nowhere special

...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 distant places, signifiers of cultural diversity, and opening up of lifestyles to new experiential spaces and horizons” as Adam Jaworski shows in a 2015 paper...
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Why getting active with children is good for parents too
Health, Sports & Psychology

Why getting active with children is good for parents too

...English and in Welsh. Each week parents attend a session, either online or in a local community space where a project leader introduces that week’s theme and activities. These are often linked to nursery rhymes or stories, like marching with the Grand Old Duke of York, and there are activity cards for parents to take away at the end of the session so they can continue...
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