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How does COVID-19 affect cancer treatment?
Science, Maths & Technology

How does COVID-19 affect cancer treatment?

...class of viruses, which mainly infect bats, but can also infect other species, including humans. This newly discovered virus was named SARS-CoV-2 due to its similarities with a previously identified coronavirus (SARS-COV) that caused the outbreak of Severe Acute Respiratory Syndromes (SARS) in the early 2000s (for more information about what a virus is see this article on...
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Building peace through teaching Remembrance Sunday
Education & Development

Building peace through teaching Remembrance Sunday

...Class Stamp to commemorate the centenary of the conflict. But underneath the image, and cropped out from the stamp, is the annotation William’s mother added to the photograph that she sent in remembrance of her son to the Imperial War Museum in 1919. It begins ‘Mother’s Billie Boy’ and ends with the note ‘one of the very best’. These small annotations reveal...
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Why Design Education needs Black and Women of Colour Feminist Thinking
Education & Development

Why Design Education needs Black and Women of Colour Feminist Thinking

...class, race and gender, as well as disability, sexuality and others – work together to structure people's life chances. These different forms of oppressions do not operate independently, rather they are inter-related so that racism is not independent of capitalism, patriarchy is not independent of bias against people with disabilities, and so forth. Recently, design...
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'A Rose By Any Other Name...': The Importance of Words when it comes to Race
Education & Development

'A Rose By Any Other Name...': The Importance of Words when it comes to Race

...class, and indeed a school, where she was the only Black member. When we played together, she shared her annoyance at the Deputy Head having referred to her as ‘coloured’. Now I was confused. I told her that mummy had said that that was the polite way to speak. She pointed out that her skin was not ‘all colours like a rainbow’, but ‘black’. At this point,...
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Sibling rivalry: An important ingredient in sporting success?
Health, Sports & Psychology

Sibling rivalry: An important ingredient in sporting success?

...Class, And Sports Activities Of Preschool Children. Perceptual and Motor Skills: Volume 102, Issue , pp. 477-484. Ronbeck, N., F., and Vikander, N., O., (2011) ‘The role of Peers: siblings and friends in the recruitment and development of athletes’, Acta Kinesiologiae Universitatis Tartuensis, Vol.17. Williams, H. (2011) ‘My secret life: Victoria Pendleton, Olympic...
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Five tips to make online teaching neuroinclusive
Education & Development

Five tips to make online teaching neuroinclusive

...class student might feel like they already stand out too much. Any student who feels like an outsider is likely to be wary about asking for help. That’s why any adjustments you make should be options open to every student, not just to those with a diagnosis, or who are willing to admit to finding things difficult. You never know which students will benefit from your...
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Global challenges in practice: designing a development intervention
Money & Business

Global challenges in practice: designing a development intervention

...feedback processes; in many respects, it is cyclical. The adaptive management cycle shows the need at points within the process for generating and giving feedback through its focus on identifying uncertainty and monitoring better than the first project cycle. These ‘pauses’ offer moments to reconsider issues of participation, power relations and whose knowledge is...
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Ian McMillan's Writing Lab interviews: Mark Ravenhill on... play writing
History & The Arts

Ian McMillan's Writing Lab interviews: Mark Ravenhill on... play writing

...class has its own vocabulary, and they change year on year, and I think one of the jobs of a playwright is to listen to those and keep up to date with those. I think on the whole you instinctively listen to the different rhythms of the way that people speak. Some people do speak in a more kind of flowing, mellow kind of a way, and some people have a more kind of jerky way...
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