Lilla, 14, and her service dog, Lopez, outside their family’s home in Michigan. This year’s middle school winner of the NPR Student Podcast Challenge tells how her golden retriever, Lopez, helped restore her independence.
Archive for September 2024
Attitudes towards advance care planning amongst community-based older people in England
Chronic illness shattered this teen’s life. Her service dog helped get it back
Cyberboss: Here’s how AI is reorganising the lines of class struggle
There is a growing sense that the future of work might not unfold in our favour. People are expected to work longer, for less, with less security and fewer protections. Rather than making work easier or more rewarding, we expect the development and application of new technologies, particularly in the areas of automation, computation and artificial intelligence, to disempower us.
Witness seminars: expanding methods for social policy research and engagement?
Examining the Role of School and Neighborhood Disorder in Early Adolescents’ Future Orientation Development
The Refl ection and Action Learning Forum (RALF): Project Update
Legal advice puts a stop to religious orders’ co-operation with investigations
Several religious orders have been given “legal advice” to stop participating in reviews by the Irish Catholic Church’s child abuse watchdog, over concerns about “data protection”.
British Academy Visiting Fellowships (Deadline: 23 Oct)
Challenging colonial logics of habit in Australiaʼs economic statecraft with Pacific Islands
Australian Research Council: Research Integrity Policy
Reception to and Efficacy of a Serious Video Game for Correctional Intervention: Project Choices
Make it awkward!
We often joke about awkwardness; it’s a staple of contemporary comedy. The exclamation ‘Awkward!’ functions as a light-hearted deflection, defusing social tension. The reality is heavier. Awkwardness can be funny, but it can also be serious – it inhibits our ability to act even when we know we should, and it can shut down or pre-empt conversations about important topics like menstruation, money, menopause, mortality. The desire to avoid awkwardness acts as a powerful social inhibition, preventing people from speaking up, and motivating compliance with problematic social and moral norms. So, which is it, then?
Exploring confidence in financial planning topics among care partners of persons living with dementia
Barriers and facilitators of habit building for long-term adherence to antihypertensive therapy among people with hypertensive disorders in Los Angeles, California: a qualitative study
School Shootings and Suicide: A Comparison of School Shooters Who Die by Suicide and Non-Suicide School Shooters
Hello World! Building Computational Models to Represent Social and Organizational Theory
Queer Asian American men’s racialized dating preferences: The role of internalized racism and resistance and empowerment against racism.
CfP: Asthma in children (Submission Deadline: 14 April)
High-Quality State Data Needed to Better Address Preventable Hospitalizations and Other Health Care Inequities Among Adult Medicaid Enrollees
The Treatment Expectation Questionnaire Tool: A Cross-Cultural Adaptation and Psychometric Evaluation in Turkey
Examining Parole Decision-Making Pre- and Post-COVID-19: Does Elderly Status Matter?
The Effects of the Training Sample Size, Ground Truth Reliability, and NLP Method on Language-Based Automatic Interview Scores’ Psychometric Properties
Trading liberty for security? ‘Milksop Nation’ by Jack Gordon
Benjamin Franklin once wrote, “Those who would give up essential Liberty, to purchase a little temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety.” While the quote’s original context is complicated, its message is timeless.
Information on income concentration and redistribution preferences: The case of the top 1% in the United States
“Suffering in Deafening Silence”: Suicide Ideation and Attempted Suicide in the Lives of Incarcerated Rural West Virginia Girls
Scottish Social Service Sector: 2023 Workforce Data
Participatory action research: A tool to develop occupational health and safety education for new immigrant workers
Network of Categories: A Method to Aggregate Egocentric Network Survey Data into a Whole Network Structure
Offering Web Response as a Refusal Conversion Technique in a Mixed-mode Survey
President Biden Appoints Janie Simms Hipp to Community Development Advisory Board
President Joe Biden on Friday appointed Janie Hipp (Chickasaw) to be a member of the Community Development Advisory Board within the U.S. Department of Treasury…. Hipp holds a Bachelor of Arts degree in social work from the University of Oklahoma, a J.D. from Oklahoma City University’s School of Law and a LLM in agricultural law from the University of Arkansas School of Law.