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Club, Country, Continent: Juggling fan identities at Euro 2020
Health, Sports & Psychology

Club, Country, Continent: Juggling fan identities at Euro 2020

...family ties. Club players and managers at the top end of the professional game are of many different nationalities across the world – and most of them will not be playing for the England team. The 2020/21 English Premier League champions Manchester City FC, for example, won the Premier League with a Spanish coach and a squad containing 12 different nationalities....
Euro 2020: Will England's ruthless academy system show its value?
Health, Sports & Psychology

Euro 2020: Will England's ruthless academy system show its value?

...families and the staff at their clubs. For those who are released the emotions of rejection, failure, and a fear that their hopes of becoming a professional footballer have just encountered an insurmountable barrier will be common. For those who are retained their dreams and aspirations of a future career in football live on for another year. Yet less than 1% of those who...
Creating a different world: Celebrating Ursula K LeGuin
History & The Arts

Creating a different world: Celebrating Ursula K LeGuin

...familial, partly tribal groups called “hearths” – and expulsion means sure death from cold. In Always Coming Home, alongside the main narrative, we get ethnographic notes about the customs, myths and rituals of the Kesh tribe. Principles and beliefs associated with Taoism were also central to Le Guin’s imaginative fiction: non-action, living harmoniously with the...
Why do transgender students need safe bathrooms?
Education & Development

Why do transgender students need safe bathrooms?

...family bathrooms” and students who have survived sexual abuse and are more comfortable with single-stall facilities. And now, Privacy for All, a group dedicated to opposing transgender bathroom advocacy, is hoping to launch a similar campaign in California. It is currently collecting signatures to bar any public institution from permitting individuals to use bathrooms...
Sometimes a bunny is just a bunny: The Playboy brand and sexualisation of children
Health, Sports & Psychology

Sometimes a bunny is just a bunny: The Playboy brand and sexualisation of children

...more 'democratic' family structures; differentiated employment opportunities for women in the service and leisure industries, shaped by longer histories of class privilege and disadvantage; new ways for people to refuse to do what they are told. All these and more are there, even 'just' for a pre-teen girl with money to spend and a school pencil case to buy. Find out more...
Enduring Love
Health, Sports & Psychology

Enduring Love

...families. We also got a lot out of, we were at Christian schools basically. So it becomes a way of life obviously, but you do have to look into it to appreciate the sort of finer points. Ann It brings in the business of forgiveness. So if in a marriage you can bring that into it, because we’ve all done wrong things, and forgive one another, that is a bedrock for that...
Mo Mowlam and The Good Friday Agreement
Society, Politics & Law

Mo Mowlam and The Good Friday Agreement

...families. This is what Mo tapped into when she took on the role of Northern Ireland Secretary. She met people on a human level and she spoke to them on a human level. She listened and she heard and she wasn’t afraid to talk about the pain and the suffering whilst also focusing always on the need to compromise and to listen to one another, in order to stop the violence...
Home education: levelling the playing field or increasing inequalities?
Education & Development

Home education: levelling the playing field or increasing inequalities?

...family or friends to support their learning. Teaching myself When we think of young people taking exams we usually think of them working with a teacher, structured lessons and being guided through the curriculum material in a weekly or regular manner. The significant majority of EHE students were self-taught when studying for their exams (Graph 1). A total of 379...