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What is climate psychology?
Health, Sports & Psychology

What is climate psychology?

...work in trying to understand and communicate denial of climate change and increasingly helping people with the anxiety and distress experienced when faced with the seriousness of the climate crisis. On the Climate Psychology Alliance website, this is how their work is described: Climate Psychology is concerned with the emotions and the social and mental processes that...
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The Ageing Well Public Talks
Health, Sports & Psychology

The Ageing Well Public Talks

...Social Care with the Open University, and I am the creator of the Ageing Well Public Talk Series. The series is the outcome of collaborative work between academia, research and members of the public who have all contributed to the content as well as to the success of the series. The Series establishes Participatory Public Engagement as the main vehicle for delivery and...
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How can your accent put your life at risk?
Languages

How can your accent put your life at risk?

...working with patients with limited English proficiency demonstrates (Kenison et al., 2016). In a quote that has almost uncanny echoes of Faysal Ishak Ahmed’s experience on the other side of the world, one junior doctor reported this conversation with a senior clinician to the researchers: And he said, ‘Oh, you know we see this, a lot of this Haitian chest pain.’ And...
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Large language models - the chatty computer
Digital & Computing

Large language models - the chatty computer

...social media and in political debates. ChatGPT is built on top of OpenAI’s proprietary GPT (Generative Pre-trained Transformer) software; an example of a so-called Large Language Model (LLM). LLMs are built using neural nets trained on very large volumes of text. This text is comprised of material on the Internet; just one collection, Common Crawl, archives more than...
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Talking about weight in therapy – Top tips for size affirmative practice
Health, Sports & Psychology

Talking about weight in therapy – Top tips for size affirmative practice

...work we did together. Size is hardly ever considered as an aspect of diversity, except in the size acceptance and fat activist communities. My perspective changed when I read ‘Health at Every Size’ by Linda Bacon and ‘Body Respect’ by Linda Bacon and Lucy Aphramor. These books and other critical perspectives opened my eyes to the ways in which larger people,...
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Economy, business and development - Student Hub Live's Brexit Special
Society, Politics & Law

Economy, business and development - Student Hub Live's Brexit Special

...social exchange and political convergence. However, the Brexit decision was triggered in part by a perception that EU trade arrangements now restrain member states from pursuing global trade and undermine their social cohesion through increased movement and scaled-down welfare states. The single European market has been condemned for expanding regulation while its single...
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A brief history of the ever-changing definition of culture
Health, Sports & Psychology

A brief history of the ever-changing definition of culture

...work in HR, it’s the way things are done in the workplace environment. If you’re familiar with 80s music, perhaps you’ve now got ‘Karma Karma Karma Karma Karma Chameleon’ stuck in your head (sorry!). However, as a doctoral researcher exploring cultural differences and education – the kind of culture that I am referring to, well, that has proven harder to pin...
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Section 4: Enduring Controversies around Glasgow 1919: (Mis)representing Red Clydeside?
Society, Politics & Law

Section 4: Enduring Controversies around Glasgow 1919: (Mis)representing Red Clydeside?

...working class. The nature of that radicalisation and its effect on broader economic, social and political relations between classes are issues on which they differ. One of the clearest alternatives to Iain McLean’s thesis was provided by John Foster (LR, D.iii & iv see section 6) who argued that the years 1914-19 represented a critical juncture where class struggle and...
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