Organisation: Department of Social Sciences
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DSOC Seminar – Book launch: “Motherhood, Childhood and Parenting in an Age of Education”
Learn moreMotherhood, as a celebrated yet underappreciated role, is often thought of as a natural process, something instinctive that we refine by watching our own mothers and others in our community. We rarely think of motherhood as something that is time and culturally specific, yet, like culture itself, it is socially constructed, and both motherhood and…
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Insights from the “Health in All Policies” agenda, The politics of health promotion in the European Union
Learn moreMuch has been written about policy efforts to achieve “Health in All Policies”: an ambitious attempt to improve population health and reduce health inequalities by ensuring multiple policy areas are more attuned to their health impacts. However, most accounts focus on technical challenges, such as implementing impact assessments. In contrast, and focusing on the European Union, this book argues that…
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DSOC Seminar: Transformative governance for regenerating the earth’s life support system: What role can science play?
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