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The challenges of ethical trading - perspective of a retailer
Money & Business

The challenges of ethical trading - perspective of a retailer

...socially and/or environmentally responsible trade, but more specifically ethical trading means taking responsibility for the labour and human rights practices within the supply chain. Faced with these challenges most companies have now developed and implement Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) strategies and ethical trading sit within the social accountability frame...
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Article 5 mins
Race and Youth Policy: working with young people
Education & Development

Race and Youth Policy: working with young people

...social policy, as being groups most at-risk from committing gun and knife violence and acts of terrorism? Within a context of major cuts to generic young people’s services, is it justifiable for government policy and funding priorities to only focus on youth programmes, tasked with preventing radicalisation and gang violence? This course will look at the meaning of...
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Level 3: Advanced 6 hrs
Pharmacotherapy while ageing
Health, Sports & Psychology

Pharmacotherapy while ageing

...Social Care qualifications. In addition to that, we may already know that as we grow older, we are at higher risk of having multiple long-term health conditions, which we call polymorbidity. This often leads to the need to take several different medications in one to treat each condition (what we call polypharmacy). With all age-related changes that might be already...
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The importance of education for students in secure environments
Education & Development

The importance of education for students in secure environments

...social relations and embodied interactions. Education can seek to promote reflection and provide students with a highly valued experience in their lives, equipping them with the skills and qualifications to build brighter futures once they leave secure environments. Gaining an education is vital for avoiding recidivism, as The Ministry of Justice (MOJ) found (Official...
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Medicines and personalisation
Health, Sports & Psychology

Medicines and personalisation

...interactions. Polypharmacy becomes problematic when someone is not getting clinical benefit from a medicine, or the negative effects of treatment outweigh beneficial outcomes. The changes associated with ageing and polypharmacy increase the risk of adverse drug reactions (ADRs) and worsening of chronic conditions. For example, reflex tachycardia is a mechanism to increase...
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Article 5 mins
Formulating research questions
Education & Development

Formulating research questions

...social care. However, the issues considered have relevance to research in other public policy and service arenas...‘Community collaboration is the cornerstone of EDI in research’ (Texas Centre for Equity Promotion). When setting out to formulate a research question, researchers are working to at least two immediate agendas. Firstly, the priorities of the funders of...
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Article 25 mins
How network science can unravel Al Capone's criminal associates
Science, Maths & Technology

How network science can unravel Al Capone's criminal associates

...social relationships of organized crime in Chicago in the 1920s, Chris M. Smith and Andrew V. Papachristos were able to take advantage ofthe availability of thousands of notes and documents on Al Capone’s criminal network. By applying network analysis to the criminal relationships in Capone’s gangs they find that multiplexity – when two people have more than one...
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The case of Simone Biles and perceptions of athlete mental health
Health, Sports & Psychology

The case of Simone Biles and perceptions of athlete mental health

...social media response revealed a polarising narrative, with many supporting Biles and engaging in a broader discussion concerning athlete mental health, while others condemned her action, implying she quit on the biggest sporting stage...What happened to Simone Biles at Tokyo 2020? The consensus heading into the 2020 Tokyo Olympics was that Team USA’s poster athlete,...
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