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What foster carers want you to know
Health, Sports & Psychology

What foster carers want you to know

...families, whether that be for a few days, weeks, months or even years. There can be many reasons why such situations arise, for example family illness, crisis, or situations where home isn’t safe. Fostering is unique in that it combines the responsibilities of parenting with professional duties, all within the foster carer’s own home. It is a regulated role that...
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Freeing people caught between life and death
Health, Sports & Psychology

Freeing people caught between life and death

...family lamenting your fate. Over the years, the carers forget to turn on the TV. You’re too cold. Then you’re too hot. You’re always thirsty. The visits of your friends and family dwindle. Your partner moves on. And there’s nothing you can do about it.” Owen and I are talking on Skype. I’m sitting in London, UK, and he’s in another London three-and-a-half...
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Keep me walking: People living with dementia and outdoor environments
Health, Sports & Psychology

Keep me walking: People living with dementia and outdoor environments

...families and carers. This project is trying to understand what works to keep people living with dementia and their carers engaging with the walks and outdoor environments. For more information about the research study please visit www.keepmewalking.info​​ website. We know that sustained benefits come from regular engagement with activities (see more in Five Pillars of...
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Veiling
History & The Arts

Veiling

...history, politics, culture and, above all, the way in which people seek to express their own identity’ (Tarlo, 1996, p. 1). As the novelist and academic Alison Lurie argues in her book The Language of Clothes: Long before I am near enough to talk to you on the street, in a meeting, or at a party, you announce your sex, age and class to me through what you are wearing...
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Level 2: Intermediate 10 hrs
Introducing social care and social work
Health, Sports & Psychology

Introducing social care and social work

...families; older people; people experiencing mental health distress; and people with learning or physical disabilities. The course is designed for people who are interested in and curious about social care or social work practice, or who might be thinking about working in these professions in the future. The activities within the course will help you think about...
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Level 1: Introductory 12 hrs
COP26 Glasgow and questions of environmental and social justice
Society, Politics & Law

COP26 Glasgow and questions of environmental and social justice

...history as the host city...Glasgow and COP26 After a delay, due to the COVID pandemic, COP26 finally went ahead in Glasgow, meaning there has been considerable international attention on the city. In recent decades Glasgow has been portrayed as an example of a city that has undergone a successful ‘transformation’ from an industrial hub to a vibrant
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The origins of Welsh male voice choirs
History & The Arts

The origins of Welsh male voice choirs

...history of Wales that the popular mind associates the Welsh male voice choir, and the popular mind is right. Its origins can be traced back to the middle of the nineteenth century. Beginning as offshoots of mixed voice choirs, male-only ensembles soon acquired a self-standing presence of their own, varying in size from glee parties of twenty to mighty phalanxes over a...
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Rosa Parks and Rob Williams sparked a revolution against racism – but has the US squandered their legacy?
Society, Politics & Law

Rosa Parks and Rob Williams sparked a revolution against racism – but has the US squandered their legacy?

...history. Dr Anthony Gunter looks at how the struggles for integration still continue in America today...After a long day at work, 42-year-old black seamstress Rosa Parks boarded a bus in Montgomery, Alabama. She went to the back and took a seat in the section designated for black ('coloured') people. Rosa’s subsequent refusal to give up her seat to a white passenger, as...
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