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Two Nigerian lecturers win UNICEF global research grant The sponsored projects are expected to run from April to September, 2021.  ADVERTISEMENT The university’s publicist, Wale Adekoya, said the announcementwas contained in a letter from Elske Van de Fliert, the Director, Centre for Communication and Social Change, School of Communication and Arts, University of Queensland, Australia, on behalf of the International Association for Media and Communication Research (IAMCR). “Their winning ...

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Respect Victoria encourages family support for LGBTIQ+ people April 14, 2021 9:38 Respect Victoria is showcasing the significance the support of a family member can have on an LGBTIQ+ person in realising and celebrating their identity. The Shannon Company managing partner, Michael Daddo, said: “Throughout our extensive consultation with stakeholders the need came through incredibly strongly to demonstrate what support for LGBTIQ+ family members looks like, and the impact that even subtle neg...

Share New Delhi: NITI Aayog, in partnership with Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation and Centre for Social and Behaviour Change, Ashoka University, today launched Poshan Gyan, a national digital repository on health and nutrition. The launch event was addressed by NITI Aayog Vice Chairman Dr Rajiv Kumar, CEO MrAmitabh Kant, Secretary (WCD) MrRam Mohan Mishra and Additional Secretary Dr Rakesh Sarwal. While launching the website, Dr Rajiv Kumar, Vice Chairman, NITIAayog, said the creation of Posha...

Covid-19 ‘variants of concern’ have changed the game – and vaccines alone may not be enough Members of the Lancet Covid-19 Commission Taskforce on Public Health have called for urgent action in response to the new variants. Many countries lack the capacity to track emerging variants via genomic surveillance. | Christophe Archambault / AFP At the end of 2020, there was a strong hope that high levels of vaccination would see humanity finally gain the upper hand over SARS-...

Susan Michie, FMedSci, FAcSS is Professor of Health Psychology and Director of the Centre for Behaviour Change at University College London (www.ucl.ac.uk/behaviour-change). Professor Michie’s research focuses on behaviour change in relation to health and sustainability: how to understand it theoretically and apply theory and new methods to intervention development, evaluation and implementation. She has developed innovative methods for characterising and reporting interventions and for synt...

New COVID-19 "variants of concern" have emerged and spread worldwide, putting pandemic control efforts, including vaccination, at risk of being derailed.

John Thwaites, Liam Smith, Salim Abdool Karim, Yanis Ben Amor New COVID variants have changed the game, vaccines will not be enough At the end of 2020, there was a strong hope that high levels of vaccination would see humanity finally gain the upper hand over SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes coronavirus disease 2019 COVID-19. In an ideal scenario, the virus would then be contained at very low levels without further societal disruption or significant numbers of deaths. But since then, new �...

Sun, 04 Apr 2021 10:02 UTC Boris Johnson, along with scientific advisers Chris Whitty and Sir Patrick Vallance, have been accused of weaponising fear Governments psychological strategies to manipulate unwitting publics behaviour may backfire and lead to long-term damage, experts claim. Failures in the UKs pandemic response are not hard to identify, but on one front the Governments success is undeniable: persuading a fearful nation to stay locked indoors for much of the past year. The daily d...

The recent debacles in Canberra have seen promises of personal reformation. Liberal National Party backbencher Andrew Laming is off to empathy lessons after he apologised for his treatment of women online, then scoffed at his own apology, before being accused of taking a picture of a bent-over woman. Nationals leader Michael McCormack reckons his mob should improve after sitting around listening to an expert for “an hour or so”. The idea of such easy penance has provoked some scepticism. A ...