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New Study Reveals Challenges for Part-Time Working Women

Headline findings from the study, conducted by experts at Sheffield Hallam University are:over half of women working part time are working below their…

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We're lazy but Chinese want to be just like us

But they also want to be one of us. They aspire to a more relaxed lifestyle in a country they see as free, tolerant, multicultural and democratic.”Gone are the…

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EU Life Expectancy: Insights from Italy and France

Italy and France were the top two nations for life expectancy –among women. Italy narrowly beat France as far as life-expectancy for men was concerned.Between…

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Migrant workers – welcome up to a point

Migrants now make up over 12 per cent of the work force in high-income countries, and are employed across a range of occupations, from medicine and IT to…

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How Baby Boomers Are Challenging Age Bias in the Workplace

Research leader, Dr Diane Grant, explains: “Many baby boomers approaching late middle age are now considered too old by some employers to be worth considering…

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Support and security in old age? Prospects for tomorrow's elderly as baby boomers head for retirement

Recent changes in the family, employment, and the benefit system, mean that some people born in the baby boom of the late 1950s and early 1960s could be less…

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Telemedicine Innovations Boosting Healthcare in Sub-Saharan Africa

In the conclusions of the Telemedicine workshop held in Brussels on 27 January 2006, where the potential of satellite telecommunication technology was…

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Surprising Study Reveals Alcohol’s Impact on Risk Attraction

This unexpected discovery is the outcome of a study into how group processes combine with alcohol consumption to affect risk attraction among young people. The…

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FWF Project Explores Football Migration in Austria

The history of immigration and football in Austria has been a little researched field until now, though it goes back a long way. Football migration was…

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Infants’ Insight: How Babies Predict Others’ Actions

When and how do infants come to understand other people's actions? Understanding others is crucial for social development because it allows the young child to…

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Supporting Care Leavers: Boosting Higher Education Access

It is widely recognised that care leavers are under represented at university due to the absence of financial and emotional support which is usually provided…

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Engaging Faith Groups: Effective Strategies for Politicians

Moves by politicians and officials to encourage greater participation can backfire if, for instance, they are seen as claiming 'grass roots legitimacy' on the…

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New Leadership Theory Offers Key Insights for Today’s World

Professor van Vugt’s theory, published in the journal Personality and Social Psychology Review, states that: leadership – whether it be political, business,…

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Youth Values Shift: Insights from 1994 to 2003 Research

The research carried out since 1994 through 2003 analyzed dynamics of youth’s value orientation under the influence of drastic transformations of the Russian…

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Migration’s Role in Alleviating Poverty in Africa

Poor Africans often choose to move. Households that can afford to send someone to Europe, mostly become wealthier. Households with people who move within…

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Drinking or playing? Men’s health and masculinity

Men across the nation will be getting the pints in and staring at the big screen this month as the World Cup kicks off in Germany. But what do football and alcohol have to do with being a man? A recent psychological study by the University of Sussex reveals that the roaring crowds may be drinking their way through the game in an effort to compensate for not being man enough to play in it.

The study, made up of in-depth interviews with thirty-one 18-21 year olds in inner London, investiga

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