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Sub-concussions in women’s football: what can be done to protect the brains of footballers?
Health, Sports & Psychology

Sub-concussions in women’s football: what can be done to protect the brains of footballers?

...Technology. Available at: Rotection® Technology To Protect Your Brain - Rezon (rezonwear.com) (Accessed: 20 June 2023). McMinn, J. (2023) ‘Subconcussions’. Available at: Sub-concussions: What are they and what’s the impact? - Rezon (rezonwear.com) (Accessed: 20 June 2023). McSweeney, E. (2022) ‘CTE: The silent killer in contact sports’, TEDx Athens. Available...
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Katherine Johnson: NASA mathematician and much-needed role model
Science, Maths & Technology

Katherine Johnson: NASA mathematician and much-needed role model

...technology but also the status of black people in society and the role of women in the workplace and in science. Katherine Coleman was born in 1918 in West Virginia and showed very early on that she was no ordinary child. Her ability in mathematics was such that she continued her schooling beyond high school (very unusual for African-American children at that time) and...
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Poverty in Scotland 2016: Tools for Transformation
Society, Politics & Law

Poverty in Scotland 2016: Tools for Transformation

...education and local government, can be used over the next Scottish Parliament to transform Scotland toward a poverty free, much fairer and socially just society. Poverty in Scotland 2016 is published by the Child Poverty Action Group (CPAG) in Scotland; The Open University in Scotland, Glasgow Caledonian University and the Poverty Alliance, and draws together the...
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Extending your learning with postgraduate skills
Education & Development

Extending your learning with postgraduate skills

...educational provision, or to related policy contexts. The benefits might be changes in thinking which can then drive changes in practice. This could be your practice if you work in one of these settings. It could be the practice of others, if you share what you are learning with professionals and volunteers in these settings, either in conversation or through more formal...
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Is being a student good for your mental health?
Health, Sports & Psychology

Is being a student good for your mental health?

...educational benefits that go with it. This vulnerability does not seem to be linked to the type of person who chooses to go to university as, in general, graduates enjoy better mental health than non-graduates (HEFCE, 2017). So it seems likely that there is something about the student experience that is destabilising for a significant number of individuals. Two recent...
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Boys will be boys?
Society, Politics & Law

Boys will be boys?

...educational under-achievement relative to girls, to an increasing growing awareness of the suicide rate and mental health problems among boys. Young men have tended to be characterised in media debate and public policy as ‘at risk’, in terms of their own physical and mental wellbeing, and as ‘risky’ in relation to others, in terms of youth crime and anti-social...
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Fracking: Is it possible to persuade the public that the benefits outweigh the risks
Nature & Environment

Fracking: Is it possible to persuade the public that the benefits outweigh the risks

...educate” the public it has actually generated further concern and public debate. A recent government survey suggested that this was particularly relevant to fracking. The study found that there was more opposition than support among those who know a lot about fracking (54% vs 32%), know a little about it (35% vs 27%), and those who are aware of it but don’t really...
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Young children and the climate crisis
Education & Development

Young children and the climate crisis

...education, it’s likely that at some point in your career you’ve grappled with recycling systems and had conversations about ‘saving the environment’. You may be making connections with nature by cultivating responsibility for a patch of woodland to ensure the next generation will care more about local wildlife than the current one. I’m an early years...
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