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Ten tips for students starting university
Education & Development

Ten tips for students starting university

...write a CV 9: Avoid the pitfalls of plagiarism [Student looking stressed] Dealing with a lengthy assignment during a hectic part of your life can be tough. Developing good academic practice is essential - our interactive drama 'All my own work' sheds more light on the subject... All my own work 10: Enjoy yourself, but be aware of the impact of alcohol [Three young men...
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Methods in Motion: Introducing Methods in Motion
Society, Politics & Law

Methods in Motion: Introducing Methods in Motion

...creative, inventing a swathe of new practical ways of knowing about social life. Yet we at CCIG would argue that researchers must go beyond meeting the intensified demand for new methods. Methods are important because what we know is changed by how we know it. Furthermore, the reasons why someone uses a particular method are linked to their wider ends and means; what...
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The experts who put storytelling, language and better paid teachers at the heart of early education
Education & Development

The experts who put storytelling, language and better paid teachers at the heart of early education

...in the UK and US. Anyone who has worked over the last 50 years in the field of early education will have been influenced by the generosity and crystal clear thinking of this academic trio. As, unknowingly, have millions of school children.[The Conversation] This article is republished from The Conversation under a Creative Commons license. Read the original article....
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Methods in Motion: Developing psychosocially informed self-help on gender
Health, Sports & Psychology

Methods in Motion: Developing psychosocially informed self-help on gender

...creative dissemination. This time I want to reflect on one particular strand of the project: the book How to Understand Your Gender (2017 London: Jessica Kingsley), which I have written with scholar and psychotherapist Alex Iantaffi. The challenge here was very different to the previous project, producing critical sex advice. The sex advice market is saturated with books,...
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May the Forza be with you: Star Wars in other languages
Languages

May the Forza be with you: Star Wars in other languages

...creative. In the German translation, instead of positioning the finite verb in second place in the sentences, it moves to the end, as in Eure Sinne nutzen ihr müsst (Your senses to use you have). There is no doubt that Star Wars has influenced popular culture, but also many languages. Expressions such as “May the force be with you” (and its translations) are widely...
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Sarah Everard murder: the problem with the government’s plan to make women ‘feel’ safer
Society, Politics & Law

Sarah Everard murder: the problem with the government’s plan to make women ‘feel’ safer

...in Criminology, CQUniversity Australia Lisa Lazard, Senior Lecturer in Psychology, The Open University Lois Catrin Donnelly, Associate Lecturer in Psychology, University of Worcester Lucy Thompson, Assistant Professor of Psychology, Michigan State University This article is republished from The Conversation under a Creative Commons license. Read the original article....
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Teaching reading: what are our long term goals?
Education & Development

Teaching reading: what are our long term goals?

...creative, interactive, shared, sustained and personalised nature of their engagement (Kucirkova, Littleton and Cremin, 2016). These synergies which have the potential to help shape teachers’ (and parents’ and publishers’) choices of reading resources will be examined in more detail at a forthcoming UKLA Research Symposium Reading for Pleasure-What Next? at the Open...
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Why would you want your own web domain?
Digital & Computing

Why would you want your own web domain?

...creativity and give them a home on the web in which they could run their own applications, eased the pain for many: the host could also be trusted, was helpful, and was affordable. The Oklahoma create space allows students to register a subdomain (e.g. myname.oucreate.com) or custom domain (e.g.ouseful.info) and associate it with what is presumably a university hosted...
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