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The importance of education for students in secure environments
Education & Development

The importance of education for students in secure environments

...care to explore which programmes are most effective, offer a broader curriculum and invest in research about the longer-term outcomes and destination data. References Criminal Justice Joint Inspection (2021) ‘Neurodiversity in the criminal justice system’, London: HM Inspectorate of Prisons. House of Commons Education Committee (2022) ‘Not just another brick in the...
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Stress and Burnout in Aviation
Health, Sports & Psychology

Stress and Burnout in Aviation

...care altogether. This aversion to being interviewed by mental health professionals, as suggested by Bor et al. (2002), further complicates the investigation of the relationship between life stress, performance, and mental wellbeing among pilots. Like athletes, pilots can be on a high-performance pathway where life is often unbalanced and “the rigour of training and...
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It’s all in a name: why I refuse to use a ‘white’ name
Society, Politics & Law

It’s all in a name: why I refuse to use a ‘white’ name

...care about it. I started to think that I will never understand his thought process, and this conversation will get very difficult, but I persevered with my views and questions, even knowing our friendship could be very much over. For the third time I brought up Jas’s family. I mentioned his sister (who is also a friend of mine), explaining that she would never have lied...
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Disseminating across the margins: bridging communities and academia through a Black feminist lens
Education & Development

Disseminating across the margins: bridging communities and academia through a Black feminist lens

...care services provides me with a unique perspective that is deeply personal and rich with insight. Yet, as a member of the academic community, I am also part of a system that has historically marginalised voices like mine. My current research project, titled ‘Mothering at the Margins’, has been designed with another researcher who is also a Black female academic and...
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How to read a rock
Science, Maths & Technology

How to read a rock

...careful and straightforward observations, which is what makes it such a powerful tool. There are lots of different genres to read too. By reading a sedimentary rock, you might learn about vast oceans that have since dried up. Metamorphic rocks can tell you the biography of entire mountain ranges. Reading an igneous rock may reveal the secrets of the bowels of a volcano....
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Global English
History & The Arts

Global English

...adults are learning English in the workplace or in their free time. A 'wave of English' is now building up. Within a decade nearly a third of the world population will all be trying to learn English at the same time. But looking further ahead, the wave of learners may subside almost as quickly as it came. If the project to make English a second language for the world's...
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Working mothers in Scotland's railways
Society, Politics & Law

Working mothers in Scotland's railways

...adult children [Marion Parker with Nicola as and a child and her brother]Marion Parker with Nicola (author) and her brother In 1989 when my mother joined the railway, I was only 1 year old and my brothers were 2 and 13. My father was studying for a full-time degree, and later became a full-time Health and Safety Executive. Reflecting over the years my Mum can’t believe...
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Stress and anxiety in the digital age: the dark side of technology
Health, Sports & Psychology

Stress and anxiety in the digital age: the dark side of technology

...adults in the UK own a mobile phone; and over three-quarters of those are smartphones. And while mobile phones were originally designed to facilitate phone calls on the go, Deloitte’s mobile consumer survey (2016) suggests a third of smartphone users don’t actually make traditional voice calls at all. Instead, our phones are used as mobile computers, for checking...
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