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Reparations for slavery in Barbados
Education & Development

Reparations for slavery in Barbados

...institutions Public health crisis (action) Illiteracy eradication African knowledge program Psychological rehabilitation Technology transfer Debt cancellation The (brief) arguments For: Slavery created vast amounts of wealth for the colonisers, the planters and the white elite (see Williams, 1944) Continuing legacy of slavery (inequality of land distribution and wealth...
Citational politics
Education & Development

Citational politics

...institutional biography. References Ahmed, Sara (2017) Living a Feminist Life. Durham: Duke University Press. Horton, John and Kraftl, Peter (2009) ‘Small acts, kind words and “not too much fuss”: implicit activisms’, Emotion, Space and Society, 2(1), pp. 14–23. Available at: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S1755458609000322?via%3Dihub...
How can a genetic mutation shared by many Brazilians help in the fight against cancer?
Health, Sports & Psychology

How can a genetic mutation shared by many Brazilians help in the fight against cancer?

...Institutes of Health compared the endurance of normal mice with ones whose p53 gene had been deleted. The mice were put into a bucket of water, and those lacking p53 went under much more quickly than the normal ones: clearly they were having difficulty generating enough energy to keep afloat. So, what was going on? At her lab at Glasgow’s Beatson Institute, Karen...
The Bletchley Park connection
History & The Arts

The Bletchley Park connection

...institution do amazing things back to his Bletchley days. Labour politician and Bletchley alumnus Roy Jenkins was one of the first champions of the UK’s participation in European union: he was joined in Brussels by the Conservative peer Lady Elles, who had also worked at Bletchley. Mary Siepmann worked in MI6’s codebreaking team in London and in later life found fame...
Social work: Effective practice with substance abusing parents
Health, Sports & Psychology

Social work: Effective practice with substance abusing parents

...et al 2016). There is an importance about thinking creatively about which professionals in the child’s network might be best placed to achieve this. This raises a number of key issues - how far will loyalty to parents or fear of talking inhibit children? Will older children be more reluctant to disclose what they see, hear, feel and experience than younger children? Key...
Why is childbirth a medical procedure?
Health, Sports & Psychology

Why is childbirth a medical procedure?

...et al., 2002). Not surprisingly, defensive medical practice has been identified as another reason for the increasing medicalisation of childbirth. We live in a society where relatively few babies die and, when they do, it is assumed that someone or something must be blamed. However, defensive practice serves to undermine clinical decision making for the benefit of women...
The arts in Participatory Action Research
Health, Sports & Psychology

The arts in Participatory Action Research

...et al., 2023) to empower the women to make changes to their lives. PAR is a social, practical and collaborative activity where building relationships among all participants and the researchers is crucial in working towards self-determination and reform (Koch, 2006, 2015). PAR gives participants a voice to tell and find understandings of coping in their digital stories and...
Developing leadership practice in voluntary organisations
Money & Business

Developing leadership practice in voluntary organisations

...et al. (2019) show just how prevalent the idea of the leader as person is in the narratives of UK policy documents and academic writing about the sector. There is a good reason for this, as it is often people with great belief, talent and drive who establish successful voluntary organisations in the first place. Another reason why people are bewitched by leaders is that...