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How can we dismantle racism in public institutions and services?
Education & Development

How can we dismantle racism in public institutions and services?

...profiling: The institutional sources of racial disparities in policing’, Public Administration Review, 77(2), pp. 168–178. Illing, S. (2020) ‘Why the policing problem isn’t about “a few bad apples”’, Vox. Available at: https://www.vox.com/identities/2020/6/2/21276799/george-floyd-protest-criminal-justice-paulbutler (Accessed: 11 February 2021). Lammy, D....
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Mothering at the Margins: Amplifying and validating the voices of Black mothers of autistic children
Education & Development

Mothering at the Margins: Amplifying and validating the voices of Black mothers of autistic children

...profiling, stereotyping, and racially charged assumptions of incompetence, criminality, or deficit. School-to-prison pipeline: the process via which children leave educational settings and are immediately absorbed into the juvenile and criminal justice systems. The school-to-prison pipeline is indicative of structural failings and systemic racism in education and social...
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Dr Jean-Francois Soussana - Stories of Change
Nature & Environment

Dr Jean-Francois Soussana - Stories of Change

...style diets, you still have massive intensification of agriculture, what’s the effect of that? JFS: Yes, that’s really where you have opposite trends because it is true that many of the commercial farming systems have no need to consider this aspect. So you are talking here about what are the possibilities to also have some funding, some carbon funding getting into...
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Three Irish Poets – Ellen O'Leary
OpenLearn Ireland

Three Irish Poets – Ellen O'Leary

...style it is clear she is artfully drawing on the literary conventions of the ballad tradition. Identify some examples of the features listed above in the ‘Legend’ to explore how O’Leary does this. There are many examples you might have picked out. The second stanza opens with the desolate children crouched round the hearth-- there is no explanation for the...
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Privatising Thames Water
Money & Business

Privatising Thames Water

...style of financing is that it facilitates ‘intra-company’ loans, in which one part of the corporate structure lends money to another part of it. The key attraction of such practices is that the rates charged for such loans are then used to lessen the amount of taxable profits. Whilst the overall aim of the securitisation above was to reduce the cost of capital to...
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Scoring the Shoreline
History & The Arts

Scoring the Shoreline

...style combining classical structures with forms derived from mathematics and number symbolism. The orchestral work Lighthouses of England and Wales by Benedict Mason (b. 1955), which won first prize in the 1988 Benjamin Britten Composers Competition, works with sounds made by the sonic beacons used by ships to locate specific lighthouses. The work derives from a journey,...
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The working-class garden
Society, Politics & Law

The working-class garden

...styles now, which can be called working class or middle class, are there those differentials now? Lisa Taylor: Oh well I would say so certainly. The people that I spoke to, the kinds of aesthetics that the working class people were doing very much concerned with tidiness, very much concerned with bedding plants, which Margaret talks about at length, the blaze of colour...
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Social psychology and politics
Health, Sports & Psychology

Social psychology and politics

...et al. (Christie, 1954; Christie and Cook, 1958; Stone, Lederer and Christie, 1993), there have also been some significant findings in this field of research. For example, it is often the case that those who score highly on the right-wing authoritarianism scale are more highly prejudiced towards out-groups and minorities (e.g. Altemeyer, 1981). Since this early work,...
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