Draft guidelines to help improve practice when the state acts to safeguard a baby at birth have been created by researchers at Oxford (the Rees Centre) and Lancaster Universities—and are being tested across England and ...
Social Sciences
Feb 24, 2022
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Online focus groups are an effective way to gather data while also reducing barriers faced by people in low-income and minority groups, according to researchers at The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston ...
Social Sciences
Feb 7, 2022
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Deforestation in the Brazilian Amazon made global headlines in 2019, thanks to massive wildfires and the election of anti-environmentalist president Jair Bolsonaro. Brazilians took to the streets against it, and retailers ...
Environment
Jul 9, 2021
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People who have contact with other social groups are more likely to be committed to social justice. However, an international study led by the University of Zurich has shown that for this to be the case, power relations and ...
Social Sciences
Jun 22, 2021
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University of Arkansas law professor Jordan Blair Woods challenges the conventional wisdom that only police can enforce traffic laws.
Social Sciences
Apr 23, 2021
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Money problems became the chief source of discontent for people in lockdown, more so than not having close friends or living with a partner, new research says.
Social Sciences
Apr 19, 2021
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A string of murders and violent attacks against Asian Americans has jolted the U.S. over the last year. As shocking as these incidents are, they are not novel. Asian Americans and Asian immigrants have long had to contend ...
Social Sciences
Apr 5, 2021
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Insufficient interactions with advisers and peers, as well as financial problems, are derailing career aspirations of women and minority groups pursing graduate degrees in the nation's highest-funded chemistry programs.
Social Sciences
Jan 12, 2021
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Media and academics often equate assimilation with the process of immigrants becoming more similar to U.S.-born populations over time and across generations, says University of Arizona researcher Christina Diaz.
Social Sciences
Oct 6, 2020
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California voters will be asked to approve a return to affirmative action on Nov. 3 with Proposition 16, which would restore the right of the state's colleges and universities to consider race, ethnicity and gender in admission ...
Education
Aug 20, 2020
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