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EDI governance and leadership

To embed an effective and sustainable EDI culture within your organisation, EDI must be considered a priority within governance and leadership structures. Not only will this help you to meet your legal responsibilities, it will also enrich your organisation. On this page you can find advice, guidance and good practice examples related to EDI and […]
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Comment and Analysis

Children’s rights in a digital world – Can COVID19 move governments from evidence to action?

In this piece Professor Sonia Livingstone OBE FAcSS and her co-authors examine the significant impact of the pandemic on children’s digital lives and how governments can develop and implement policies to protect their rights.
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Tributes to Lord Bob Kerslake

Obituaries The Guardian – Lord Kerslake obituary The Telegraph - Lord Kerslake, council chief executive who rose to be head of the Home Civil Service – obituary The Times - Lord Kerslake obituary
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Pandemic Perspectives: Improving support for teaching and research in UK Higher Education in Times of Crisis

The COVID -19 pandemic profoundly impacted the Higher Education (HE) sector, leading to a sudden shift for academics worldwide to remote work. Using a qualitative online questionnaire, our study explores the various barriers encountered by academic staff in their teaching and research endeavours during the pandemic. It provides recommendations for improving support for teaching […]
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Health policy and the evidence base from social science

[…] of advice illustrates the fact that up to four-fifths of the underlying causes of poor health are outside the control of the individual — and of health services. Some of those causes are due to our age, our gender or our genes, but between one-third and one-half are due to what’s known as social, […]
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Putting evidence to work in a lockdown and beyond: how we’ve set about addressing the Covid19 attainment gap

[…] potential for educational inequality to become even more entrenched posed a double challenge: how to support poorer children to learn at home during lockdown; and then how best to support their return to the classroom when schools re-open fully from September. Evidence to support schools and parents during lockdown In supporting teachers and families […]
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Campaign Supporters in Action

Our Campaign for Social Science Supporters are among the most proactive and engaged producers and users of social science. On this page you can view and learn more about major projects, initiatives and activities that they are involved in. Find out how they apply their knowledge, expertise and research to address real world challenges, including […]
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Fork in the road ahead: Can COVID19’s impact on transport provide lessons for tackling climate change?

In this piece Iain Docherty and Greg Marsden focus on the impact that COVID 19 has had on transport in the UK and investigate what we might learn from that, both in terms of the immediate challenge of emerging from the pandemic and the longer term issues of tackling climate change.
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EDI and event organisation

EDI considerations are important for event planning. Prioritising EDI helps you to meet your legal responsibilities and enriches your events by ensuring that a diverse set of voices, insights, perspectives and experiences are heard. On this page you can find advice, guidance and good practice examples related to EDI events, including policies and how you […]
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Comment and Analysis

How the education system can help to fight the climate crisis

[…] parents (39%) never watch, listen to or read news with their child at home. Rather than a bolt on or isolated part of ICT, media literacy works best when understood as multiple literacies taught across the curriculum, as in the case of Finland. Our education system could play a vital role in improving media […]
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