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A dramatic existence: Undergraduate preparations for a creative life in the performance industries
(Article)This paper focuses specifically on drama and theatre higher education (HE) programmes and preparation for potential graduate work. The article investigates working in the creative industries and in the performing arts ... -
Reading Bronson from deep on the inside: An exploration of prisoners watching prison films
(Book chapter)This chapter reports on a small scale project screening contemporary British prison films to people serving sentences in British prisons. In particular, this will focus on one of the films, Bronson (UK 2008, Dir. Nicolas ... -
Fearing Compassion Impacts Psychological Well-being but has no Effect on Physiological Indicators.
(Conference)Fearing Compassion Impacts Psychological Well-being but has no Effect on Physiological Indicators. Objective: Fears of compassion are feelings of threat towards receiving and giving kindness. This study examined the fears ... -
Post-traumatic stress disorder and the role of resilience, social support, anxiety and depression after the Jiuzhaigou earthquake: A structural equation model
(Article)This is the first study to investigate the mechanism of Post traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) after the 2017 7.0 Ritcher scale Jiuzhaigou earthquake. In order to identify the mechanism underling interactions among different ... -
Disclosure in lesbian, gay and bisexual cancer care: towards a salutogenic healthcare environment
(Article)Background The literature on sexual orientation disclosure is arguably one of the most developed in the field of lesbian, gay and bisexual (LGB) people in healthcare in English speaking countries however, relatively ... -
Now we don’t see the university as something distant. It’s here in our hands: Situated pedagogy in Cuban municipal universities
(Article)The first years of the twenty-first century saw the introduction of a new mode of higher education in Cuba. Local university centres were set up across the country offering part time study to a range of students previously ... -
Towards Being a Good Cuban:Socialist Citizenship Education in a Globalized Context
(Book chapter)Considering the renewed diplomatic relations with the United States, and, subsequently, to a globalized world, the Cuban State is forming global citizens while trying to retain socialist values in the face of increased ... -
The Three Ps (Perfecting, Professionalization, and Pragmatism) and their Limitations for Understanding Cuban Education in the 1970s
(Book chapter)The 1970s is widely understood as an era of perfeccionamiento (improvement) and professionalisation in Cuba education, one in which the gains made by mass mobilisations in the 1960s were formalised and institutionalised. ... -
Cuba: The Impact of the Cuban Revolution
(Book chapter)Universal access and continent-leading results have frequently led external observers to idealise education in socialist Cuba. Such narratives tend to place at their core the ‘Year of Education’ (1961), in which popular ... -
Education, Citizenship and Cuban Identity
(Book)This book explores how Cuba’s famously successful and inclusive education system has formed young Cubans’ political, social, and moral identities in a country transfigured by new inequalities and moral compromises made in ... -
Where are our ancestors? Rethinking Trobriand cosmology
(Article)Reincarnation has been a fundamental tenet of anthropologists’ representations of Trobriand cosmology since Bronislaw Malinowski published “Baloma; The spirits of the dead in the Trobriand Islands” in 1916. Yet, during ... -
Punishment and care reappraised
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Large as being on top of the world and small as hitting the roof: A shared magnitude representation for the comparison of emotions and numbers
(Article)Previous work on the direct Speed–Intensity Association (SIA) on comparative judgment tasks involved spatially distributed responses over spatially distributed stimuli with high motivational significance like facial ... -
Should there be a right to rehabilitation?
(Book chapter)Chapter explores what might be involved in deciding a 'right to rehabilitation' -
Facial expressions
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Mental health outcomes among Chinese prenatal and postpartum women after the implementation of universal two-child policy
(Article)Background Poor health status among both pregnant and postpartum women is commonly reported worldwide. The associations between mental health outcomes and giving birth to the second child since the implementation of China's ... -
Andrea Yates; An 'Unspeakable Crime'
(Article)On June 20, 2001, Andrea Yates took the lives of all five of her children, drowning them in the bathtub of their home in Houston, Texas. The children, Noah, John, Paul, Luke, and Mary were aged from seven years to 6 months. ... -
Barriers to HIV Treatment as Prevention (TasP) in men who have sex with men in the Eastern Mediterranean Region
(Article)The significant reduction in human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) viremia to ‘undetectable’ levels (HIV plasma viral load < 40 copies/ml) in response to effective antiretroviral therapy (ART) removes the risk of HIV ... -
The LGBTI Movement in Cyprus: Activism, Law, and Change Across the Divide
(Other)Following the end of the British rule of Cyprus in 1960, the recognition of the Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Trans, and Intersex (LGBTI) community as a legitimate political actor and the recognition of LGBTI rights has been a ... -
Effective parent-practitioner partnerships in childrens secondary education
(Article)This paper presents results from a qualitative case study project into effective strategies for fostering parent-practitioner partnerships in secondary education in England. It discusses the nature of a true ‘community ...
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