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How does trauma influence identity and engagement with extremism?
Health, Sports & Psychology

How does trauma influence identity and engagement with extremism?

...community and society. Other times, if you see people, who you do not consider to be British, as getting preferential treatment and access to services that are rightfully yours as a British person, this can threaten your sense of belonging and status without your community and society. These experiences can leave a person feeling rejected, powerless, scared, angry,...
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A brief history of the eisteddfod
History & The Arts

A brief history of the eisteddfod

...communities in south Wales competed for a trophy at the Crystal Palace and defeated a London choir. This victory helped foster a belief in the choral excellence of ‘the land of song’. [Photos of posters of the 1906 National Eisteddfod in Caernarfon and the 1911 National Eisteddfod in Carmarthen.]Posters for the 1906 National Eisteddfod in Caernarfon and the 1911...
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Active Citizenship in Wales
Society, Politics & Law

Active Citizenship in Wales

...communities and across the country. It also means people being empowered to use their voices to try to effect change and to shape the decisions that affect them. In Wales, that includes decisions that are made in the Senedd. Since the Senedd was created, more and more powers have been transferred from the UK Government, based in Westminster, to the Senedd, and to the...
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How does online intergroup contact compare with face-to-face?
Health, Sports & Psychology

How does online intergroup contact compare with face-to-face?

...communication moved away from face-to-face to online social media. We live in a world where two thirds of Gen Z and millennials communicate more online than face-to-face, with the figure rising to three quarters in the UK and USA. What impact does this have on contact? On the positive side, social media provides the opportunity for people to be exposed to a wider range of...
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What is Critical Race Theory?
Education & Development

What is Critical Race Theory?

...communities and immigrant communities. CRT affirms the centrality of race and racism in society such that racism is endemic and ‘normalised’ (Delgado and Stefancic, 2001; Ladson-Billings, 1998; Gillborn, 2008), and the very ‘ordinariness makes racism hard to recognize much less address' (Delgado and Stefancic, 2007). CRT emphasises how political, social, and...
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Can we be categorised by our DNA?
Science, Maths & Technology

Can we be categorised by our DNA?

...Communications 10(551). Available at: https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-018-08272-w Chacón-Duque, JC., Adhikari, K., Fuentes-Guajardo, M. et al. (2018) ‘Latin Americans show wide-spread Converso ancestry and imprint of local Native ancestry on physical appearance’, Nature Communications 9(5388). Available at: https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-018-07748-z Gilbert, E.,...
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Forgotten families
Health, Sports & Psychology

Forgotten families

...communities and how they can seek and receive help. These children remain invisible. Invisibility and visibility The invisibility of children of prisoners in part reflects limited advocacy and lack of political organising for and by this group. There is currently no formal recording system to identify children affected by parental imprisonment and no systematic referral...
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...community. OpenLearn is a trailblazer for the provision of high quality open educational resources (OER) at scale and breadth, for free and accessible to all. [Illustration of a girl opening an 'OpenLearn' box, by lifting the lid she discovers lots of content flying out] How does OpenLearn work? Transcript We deliver bite-sized learning experiences designed to fit easily...
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