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Grief and COVID-19: Mourning what we know, who we miss and the way we say goodbye
Health, Sports & Psychology

Grief and COVID-19: Mourning what we know, who we miss and the way we say goodbye

...working in care establishments, and how grief was reported in UK newspapers. ...The COVID-19 pandemic has brought unprecedent disruption to our daily lives, changing the way we educate, the way we work and the way in which we care for the dying and ultimately say goodbye to our loved ones. COVID-19 is not only a public health crisis, but a psychological one, provoking...
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Aberdulais Falls: a case study in Welsh heritage
History & The Arts

Aberdulais Falls: a case study in Welsh heritage

...works on the site in 1830. This remained in operation until 1897, after which the works fell into decay, with only a few buildings remaining occupied and maintained. One was Danygraig House; the others were a stable and the former school for tinplate workers' children. In time, even Danygraig House became derelict, and in 1981 the whole site was taken over by the National...
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Open Minds - Diabetes and Depression: A Tale of Three Cities
Miscellaneous

Open Minds - Diabetes and Depression: A Tale of Three Cities

...work investigating the impact of diabetes on the life experiences of young adults living in a deprived area of London. Understanding how young adults live with diabetes creates a greater awareness of the difficulties and helps provide appropriate support to individuals as they self-manage their condition. This research led her, in 1991, to obtaining a fellowship in...
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OpenMinds Talk: Performing Online Live Experiments 24/7: “An Internet of Laboratory Things”
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OpenMinds Talk: Performing Online Live Experiments 24/7: “An Internet of Laboratory Things”

...work at a distance with a range of sophisticated, remote-controlled experiments and robotic apparatus. Transcript Professor Braithwaite will be joined by: Dr Tim Drysdale, Senior Lecturer (Engineering/Electronics), academic lead for the new £2.7M OpenEngineering Lab. Dr Mark Hirst, Senior Lecturer in Biology, who leads the OpenScience Laboratory. Dr Ulrich Kolb, Senior...
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European Day of Languages
Languages

European Day of Languages

...working languages: (European Commission, 2015) Bulgarian Estonian Irish Portuguese Croatian Finnish Italian Romanian Czech French Latvian Slovak Danish German Lithuanian Slovenian Dutch Greek Maltese Spanish English Hungarian Polish Swedish In addition, there are other national, regional or minority languages (such as Catalan, Welsh or Occitan, for instance) as well as...
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Blockchain in Education
Digital & Computing

Blockchain in Education

...work they had to carry out for their courses (e.g., essays, lab experiments, designs, software etc.) and the feedback given by the teachers for later use (e.g., to show to potential employers, apply for a study programme, internship, scholarship etc.). This creates a high overhead for the students, as they need to keep track, organise, and safely archive the relevant...
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Why is 'modern language' taken to mean 'European language'?
Languages

Why is 'modern language' taken to mean 'European language'?

...work as Associate Professor of Korean Linguistics at Oxford University, I work towards this goal together with the Korean Embassy. In collaboration with exam boards we work to include Korean as one additional option among the modern foreign languages in the GCSE. However, we sense a reluctance from some exam boards and publishers that is difficult to understand. The...
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Charles Darwin - the man and the scientist
Science, Maths & Technology

Charles Darwin - the man and the scientist

...work of Charles Darwin and the impact his ideas about evolution continue to have on today’s world. © The British Council 2009... Charles Darwin - the man and the scientist A brief introduction to this album. Darwin's great great granddaughter The poet Ruth Padel talks about her great great grandfather, Charles Darwin, and how she has responded to his life and work in...
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