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Integrated education in Northern Ireland - or divide and sectarianism?
Society, Politics & Law

Integrated education in Northern Ireland - or divide and sectarianism?

...Children jumping] The unveiled and direct attacks this week between the DUP leader and First Minister Peter Robinson and a senior Catholic bishop, Donal McKeown, have once again raised the thorny and entangled issue of the role of education in Northern Ireland as either a vehicle for social cohesion or one of perpetuating community divisions. The DUP’s position,...
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Killers or carers?
Nature & Environment

Killers or carers?

...Research shows that vegans are regularly stigmatised as killjoys in the mass media (Cole and Morgan, 2011), in our personal life (Twine, 2014) and even in academic discourse (Cole, 2008). The ‘joy’ that vegans are killing is partly the sensory pleasure associated with eating other animals, and partly the ignorance-is-bliss complacency about the violence that underpins...
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Studying Environments and Societies
Society, Politics & Law

Studying Environments and Societies

...centre of the module. And then there is the final sixth block and that’s a synthesis block in which we try and get those things brought together again. So in the first substantive block, that is block two, the cultural block, we will be dealing with, for instance, issues of how environment is represented. How it’s represented culturally. So, for instance, issues of...
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Nursing associate career pathways - not just the ‘top-up’
Health, Sports & Psychology

Nursing associate career pathways - not just the ‘top-up’

...research and education there are increasing opportunities for band 4 NAs to progress without requiring the degree Transfer to Nursing (top-up) programme to be a registered nurse. You may be interested in Sam’s story below where she chose to pursue a leadership related degree, now working in a band 6 role with potential to progress further. Many people do not wish to...
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Book, comic and animation - What is the fear collection?
Science, Maths & Technology

Book, comic and animation - What is the fear collection?

...research into fear. Yes, people did think me a bit odd. My main area of interest at the time was climate change so I used that as my point of focus but I was quite clear with myself – my research was about fear in general with climate change fear as a lens. To make my research real and to some extent to force me to treat it as a bit more than a personal thought...
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Conversations and interviews
Money & Business

Conversations and interviews

...research methods appear to aim for that goal. In a practice-centred inquiry, however, perfect interview technique is less important than getting timely and relevant information. So, for example, waiting a week for the perfect context for a formal interview with a senior colleague might well mean that important and urgent action is delayed unhelpfully. There is a real...
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Pineapples and Pashto: building intercultural competence through Peace Education
Education & Development

Pineapples and Pashto: building intercultural competence through Peace Education

...children, some wearing hijabs, holding signs say no wars and names of various countries.]Source: Afghan Peace Volunteers Pineapples and Pashto: learning for and about peace Peace Education is not a universal blueprint. Conflict might be understood in many ways by people with diverse life experiences. Different cultural traditions understand and have their resources of to...
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Your child's phone is a junk food marketer
Health, Sports & Psychology

Your child's phone is a junk food marketer

UK rules that ban marketing of junk foods to children and young people are weak. So where do kids see junk food marketing online? Let's find out...Transcript
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