Exeter City Council are providing drop off sites for Exeter residents to take their real Christmas trees for recycling this weekend (Saturday 10 January and Sunday 11 January 2015).
The trees will be shredded and used in the city's parks or sent for composting just outside Exeter.
Trees put out for normal rubbish or recycling collections will not be collected.
Bullying at Work – the invisible toxic issue Jacqui Marshall FCIPD
What is it? How does it manifest itself? And what can we proactively do to stop bullying happening in the workplace. This talk will look at the various types of bullying in the workplace. What data can be collected and used to try and see what is happening and where and what are the sorts of solutions that can be used to mitigate bullying happening and to resolve it when it does happen. This talk will use lots of real life scenarios to explore some of the difficult invisible issues around this topic.
Over 40 per cent of parents in the South West worry about their children’s mental health, more than any other health issue, Action for Children reveals today.
Action for Children runs more than 200 children’s centres across the UK working with parents and young children to provide a range of support including early action to try and nip problems in the bud and stop them from reaching crisis point.
The charity has been concerned by the rise in support needed by children because of mental health and emotional wellbeing problems. Recent research by the charity found over half...
Weird Science: An Introduction to Anomalistic Psychology Speaker: Professor Chris French
Ever since records began, in every known society, a substantial proportion of the population has reported unusual experiences labelled as “paranormal”. Opinion polls show that the majority of the general public accepts that paranormal phenomena occur. Such widespread experience of and belief in the paranormal can only mean one of two things. Either the paranormal is real, in which case this should be accepted by the wider scientific community which currently rejects such claims; or else belief...
A Little Bit of Stress does you Good? Rethinking the Meaning of Stress for Health and Well-Being in Children and Adults Dr. Julie Turner-Cobb
This talk will examine the notion of the popular concept of stress. As well as looking at the science behind how stress can contribute to physical illness, I will also challenge the view that stress is always bad for you. The talk draws from studies of adults across a range of different physical health conditions and takes a life course perspective drawing from research on stress and health in children. I will present a number of different...
How to help the brain see cancer Dr William Simpson, University of Plymouth
Breast cancer is detected by radiologists who view mammograms (X-ray images of the breasts). No matter how sophisticated the imaging equipment used to create the mammograms, a limiting factor in cancer detection is the visual system of the radiologist. Therefore, if we can present mammogram images to the radiologist in a way tailored to the capabilities of the visual system, we can improve cancer detection. Visual perception is at the very core of psychology, and a great deal is known about it. I will...
How sexual desire works. The range of sexual desires and behaviour is vast (e.g. fetishes, voyeurism, exhibitionism, pornography, addictive and violent desire). Trying to understand this can be daunting. This talk will argue that considerable insight can be gained by seeing how a few underlying component processes that are features of ‘normal desire’ can get out of normal alignment and contribute to such deviations from normal. The role of dopamine, learning and arousal will be discussed.
Prejudice: can we cure it? Dr. Sylvia Terbeck, University of Plymouth
The social psychology of intergroup relations plays a significant role in theory as well as in application. For this presentation Dr. Terbeck will focus on prejudice; racial prejudice, religious prejudice, and specifically on – Stigma against people with mental and physical disabilities. One common theme within prejudice is out-group anxiety; the uneasy feeling of not knowing the person and therefore being “careful”, or even aggressive? Previously Dr Terbeck has demonstrated how fight-or flight responses might be...
Plans to change the funding arrangements for school crossing patrols will be considered by Devon County Council’s Cabinet next week (Wednesday 14 January).
The authority is facing a £50 million reduction in its funding in the next financial year and, as part of that, it is looking to reduce its school crossing patrol budget by around £100,000 per year in the next two financial years.
Councillors are being asked to approve the criteria that determines whether an existing school crossing patrol qualifies for funding from the County Council. They are also being asked to...
