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Can we get to a world without suicide?
Health, Sports & Psychology

Can we get to a world without suicide?

...history of depression in his family, but can only surmise that genetic flaws created the fatal cocktail of chemicals that compelled him to end his life. Research in this field is evolving. Last year, scientists at Massachusetts General Hospital identified 17 genetic variations that appeared to increase the risk of depression, in an analysis of DNA data from more than...
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Introducing Union Black
Education & Development

Introducing Union Black

...history and experiences of people racialised as non-white and, for many others, it will be an affirmation of being in the rightful place in our diverse twenty-first century. Whatever your background, the course will give you the opportunity to hear from contributors from a range of backgrounds, lived experiences, thoughts and voices, which are designed to help inform,...
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Level 1: Introductory 3 hrs
Social work: Effective practice with substance abusing parents
Health, Sports & Psychology

Social work: Effective practice with substance abusing parents

...family residential treatment unit with their young son. There are a range of challenges and dilemmas for both social workers and other professionals when working with families where there is problematic substance misuse affecting the lives of children. Balancing and assessing risks, needs, vulnerabilities and rights There are key dilemmas in supporting parents with...
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Sea level rise in Bangladesh
Nature & Environment

Sea level rise in Bangladesh

...family home and land where he cultivated shrimp was inundated by seawater. The family was forced to move to Shyamnagar, 15 kilometres away, where he found temporary work while the water retreated. When he returned after 4 months the saltwater had left his field unsuitable for raising shrimp, effectively ending the basis of his family’s survival. 190 people are estimated...
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Digging up Spain's dead
Society, Politics & Law

Digging up Spain's dead

...families were devasted when loved ones were killed by the Franco regime, as they try to find their relatives' remains. Perspective: Digging up Spain's dead For decades, silence has surrounded the civil war and General Franco's dictatorship - but now Spain is starting to confront its past. Dr Georgina Blakeley is joined by Professor Paul Preston and Emilio Silva to explore...
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Justice, fairness and mediation
Money & Business

Justice, fairness and mediation

...history, the idea of justice has been understood and defined in many different ways. This section considers some of the key forms of justice which still influence how we understand justice today. Distributive and corrective justice Writing in the fourth century BC, the Greek philosopher Aristotle was responsible for some of the earliest views on justice. Aristotle...
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Level 1: Introductory 4 hrs
Introducing relational care
Health, Sports & Psychology

Introducing relational care

...family. If you don't see people, you don't know how they are. I can't support them. That contact's important. It's two-way. And it's about-- encouragement to attend things can be the hardest part, actually helping people to get to the things. Because they might be feeling low or they don't feel they want to get up or they might feel, oh, I don't want to ask for help. So...
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Level 1: Introductory 4 hrs
Language on the move: Migrating literature and Zachary Richard’s Cajun tales
Languages

Language on the move: Migrating literature and Zachary Richard’s Cajun tales

...history. Bringing together different regions, the tales respatialize the Acadian diaspora in a geo-cultural imaginary space and undergird the transnational connection. [Zachary Richard] Zachary Richard Introduction The history of the Cajuns, the French-speaking minority living in Cajun Country, or Acadiana, in southwest Louisiana, is a story about transnational migration...
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