news, new scholarship & more from around the world
New research from King’s College London has found that spaces with a diverse range of natural features are associated with stronger improvements in our mental wellbeing compared to spaces with less natural diversity.
The UK’s national living wage has just been raised by 10% to £11.44 per hour. It is now payable for all workers aged 21 and over, where previously it was for those aged 23 and over.
As Alyssa Reynolds (above) walks down the halls of an Idaho Department of Health and Welfare office, she sees familiar faces: Students who’d received a scholarship meant to boost Idaho’s foster care workers. That led her to pitch a story for Boise State University on the success of the Title IV-E Child Welfares Scholar program.
Mental health social workers employed by Barnet council in north London returned to picket lines on Monday this week…. They returned having beaten the council’s use of agency workers to break the strike.
We analyzed data from over 15 million consumers in 588 U.S. counties who lost power when hurricanes made landfall between January 2017 and October 2020. The results show that poorer communities did indeed wait longer for the lights to go back on. A 1-decile drop in socioeconomic status in the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s social vulnerability index was associated with a 6.1% longer outage on average. This corresponds to waiting an extra 170 minutes on average for power to be restored, and sometimes much longer.
Professor Régine Debrosse (School of Social Work – above) will partner with Chalet Kent, a non-profit organization that supports youth in the Montreal neighborhood of Côte-des-Neiges.
