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Dr Christine Huebner gives evidence on lowering the voting age to 16

Evidence was heard at a House of Commons Select Committee on Modernising Elections.
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Children enjoying a school dinner

120 years of school dinners: How canteen stigma shapes lives for decades

As pupils across the UK head back to school, new research reveals canteen choices can shape children’s lives for decades, and argues universal school meals are the key to ending the long-standing stigma around free school dinners.

Photograph still from the One Song exhibition featuring different people on a number of screens

One Song: Kadir Karababa’s exhibition uses music to reimagine home

Dr Jessica Bradley and Dr Louise Atkinson discuss Kadir Karababa's One Song exhibition at The Art House in Wakefield and reflect on experiences of creativity in everyday contexts for The Conversation.

The Conversation
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ADHD and the road to adulthood: what young people tell us about identity, support and transition

Lauren Powell explores what young people’s accounts tell us about ADHD, identity, support and the transition to adulthood in this blog for The Mental Elf.

The Mental Elf
Atrium of the Wave

Announcing SoE Voices, our new research seminar series

The School of Education is excited to launch our new seminar series. SoE Voices will draw on the rich and diverse research both within the School of Education and across the Faculty of Social Sciences.
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Changes set for Modern Foreign Languages in the UK School System

Dr Abigail Parrish asks how change can be meaningful and sustainable in an article for This is School.

| This is School
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Announcing the launch of the RITEC Design Toolbox

Dr Fiona Scott has worked with partners around the world to create the RITEC Design Toolbox (RDT) providing designers with practical tools for incorporating support for children’s well-being into their design process.
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BAFTA-nominated actors five times more likely to have attended private school than UK population.

Younger adults from working-class backgrounds are four times less likely to work in the creative industries compared to their middle-class peers.
A detail of a colourful picture from someone's maternal journal

International survey of Maternal Journal practitioners launches

As part of Dr Jessica Bradley's ongoing collaboration with Maternal Journal, the team are launching a survey to help scope the breadth and depth of similar creative projects that support mothers and birthing parents around the world.