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Sylvia Pankhurst: The Expert View
Society, Politics & Law

Sylvia Pankhurst: The Expert View

...writings on Britain, Lenin makes no less than 10 major references to Sylvia Pankhurst – more than any other British revolutionary socialist. Although her work on Ethiopia, informed as it was by anti-racism and anti-imperialism, passed largely unnoticed in Britain, it was widely appreciated by black people in Africa and in the black diaspora. W. E. B. Dubois, arguably...
The digital revolution for academic integrity has already begun
Education & Development

The digital revolution for academic integrity has already begun

...writing style to the learner model. The user model is updated over time with submission of new documents. Academic integrity enhanced by technology Seven European institutions, including the Open University, conducted studies to support the development of the TeSLA system; these involved more than 22,000 students, including a large number of courses and teaching staff....
Taking a Fresh Look at Managing Employee Engagement and Wellbeing
Health, Sports & Psychology

Taking a Fresh Look at Managing Employee Engagement and Wellbeing

...writing on a white board] De-la-Calle-Durán and Rodríguez-Sánchez’s (2021) review of 148 employee engagement and wellbeing studies, identified five main drivers of engagement that also lead to wellbeing, within the current pandemic context: conciliation, cultivation, confidence, compensation, and communication. Questioning current practices, and asking employees what...
What are South Asian young adult carers’ aspirations for the future?
Health, Sports & Psychology

What are South Asian young adult carers’ aspirations for the future?

...write your CV, improve your employability skills or get an internship or work-based placement. • Some colleges and universities provide education bursaries for students who are carers. Check out the websites of your local colleges or universities. • The Open University provides scholarships for carers, including young adult carers, to obtain university qualifications:...
Sense of self during ageing: how mindfulness and nature can help
Health, Sports & Psychology

Sense of self during ageing: how mindfulness and nature can help

...write our thoughts and feelings down, or perhaps speak them on to a recording device, this can also help us to understand ourselves and our experiences, and this can often help us to be clearer about what is important to us, helping us to connect with our beliefs and values. However, sometimes even these practical steps may not be possible, and we may be left with a sense...
Broken Hearts in Batten Disease (Juvenile Dementia)
Science, Maths & Technology

Broken Hearts in Batten Disease (Juvenile Dementia)

...writing of this article. Dr Igor Kraev and Dr Radka Gromnicova for their expertise and support with electron microscopy. NCL Foundation for their support, especially through the ‘Young Investigators’ meetings and their focus on bringing together the CLN3 research community. References BERS, D. M. 2002. Cardiac excitation-contraction coupling. Nature, 415, 198-205....
What are the benefits of interdisciplinary study?
Education & Development

What are the benefits of interdisciplinary study?

...Writing about the discipline of education itself, for example, Bridges suggests that: ‘Discipline meant that enquiry was conducted in accordance with some established rules and procedures which provided the basis for among other things distinguishing truth from falsity, warranted from unwarranted belief. The requirement for disciplined enquiry became translated into the...
Piracy, anonymity & parametric politics: An interview with Ned Rossiter and Soenke Zehle
History & The Arts

Piracy, anonymity & parametric politics: An interview with Ned Rossiter and Soenke Zehle

...writings, Schmitt has discouraged readings of this distinction that stress annihilation as the inevitable telos of such an antagonism, but affirmed the need to think the ‘enemy’ as that which binds any one sphere of the political as an ethico-political space. Schmitt’s desire for distinction is alive in contemporary legal orthodoxy. The prosecution of piracy as a...