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Disseminating across the margins: bridging communities and academia through a Black feminist lens
Education & Development

Disseminating across the margins: bridging communities and academia through a Black feminist lens

...class and race, provides a lens through which the unique experiences of Black women can be comprehended (Davis, 2008) as well as a lens through which we can see the benefits and challenges of effective research dissemination. Enhancing research dissemination and academic challenges Research dissemination is a critical component of academic scholarship and public...
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Article 35 mins
Raising awareness and support for men
Health, Sports & Psychology

Raising awareness and support for men

...class men who are living each day and getting by. To celebrate men’s positive contributions to society: this includes their contribution to the community, to families, marriage, childcare, and to the environment. This might be about encouraging men to teach the boys in their lives the values, character and responsibilities of being a considered and well-rounded...
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Article 5 mins
5 reasons why exercising outdoors is great for people who have dementia
Health, Sports & Psychology

5 reasons why exercising outdoors is great for people who have dementia

...Class of people exercising] Physical exercise is one way that helps us to prevent fast deterioration of cognitive and physical functions. Decline in all functions is a normal part of ageing but when pathological processes are already present (e.g. dementia) the decline in functions is accelerated and becomes steeper and faster. Exercising regularly has enormous preventive...
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Article 10 mins
Challenging Workplace Gender Roles: One Woman’s Story
Society, Politics & Law

Challenging Workplace Gender Roles: One Woman’s Story

...classes in technical drawing, woodwork, or metalwork, as these were deemed to be boys’ subjects, so Ann was led down the route of learning domestic and commercial skills. When thinking about her working future, Ann’s Careers Adviser told her what they told all the lassies – that she should go and get a job in a shop. Ann received her Leavers’ Certificate, given to...
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Article 10 mins
Introduction to Planetary Protection
Science, Maths & Technology

Introduction to Planetary Protection

...Class 1, 10, 100, 1000, 10000 or 100000, with Class 1 the cleanest; Beagle 2’s Aseptic Assembly Facility on the Open University campus was a Class 1. The Class number (and today’s ISO classification) was determined by the number of airborne particles between 0.1 to 10 μm in one m3 of air (Table 6). These particles could be aerosols, dust, cells, or spores. TABLE 6...
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Level 1: Introductory 5 hrs
Secondary learning
Education & Development

Secondary learning

...class how that relates to what else we now that's what helps us remember it. Now again there's a lot of researches support this idea that most of what we learned is stored in terms of meaning and not according to visual images or auditory sound but from some of the best most relevant research comes from these classic studies that were done in the seventies. Now Chase &...
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Level 3: Advanced 11 hrs
Essential for what? A global social reproduction view on the re-organisation of work during the Covid-19 pandemic
Society, Politics & Law

Essential for what? A global social reproduction view on the re-organisation of work during the Covid-19 pandemic

...de-valued: care work, cleaning, nursing, to be re-labelled as ‘essential’ during the pandemic. You will explore the interaction of theoretical lenses and the practical work of artists, through the intersectional feminist exhibition ‘This Is Essential Work’ which explores different aspects of domestic care work during the pandemic. Essential for what? ‘‘The...
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Reactions and reflections to On a Wing and a Prayer
Society, Politics & Law

Reactions and reflections to On a Wing and a Prayer

...de Jong, Umut Erel and Olga Jurasz hosted a seminar which reflected on the role of the law in constituting citizens and migrants as well as the different spaces and journeys informing migrations, mobilities and immobilities. This will was followed by an open exchange between all participants on the ethical, political and artistic issues raised by Syed's work. After the...
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