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Supporting new mothers’ mental health during the perinatal period
Health, Sports & Psychology

Supporting new mothers’ mental health during the perinatal period

...Research consistently shows that many parents hide or minimise how unwell they feel, often because of shame or fear of judgement (Biggs et al., 2023). One parent explains that:'Often mothers put their own needs below everyone else, despite the seriousness of their difficulties. These struggles should not be ignored as this can have a serious detriment to a mother’s...
Making a difference: Youth participation
Education & Development

Making a difference: Youth participation

...research and policy driven projects...Children and young people can choose to participate in a variety of community, research and policy driven projects. Ellie Jones was awarded the Diana Anti-bullying Champion Award in 2010 for her work with Changing Faces - a charity that supports young people living with a facial disfigurement and works to tackle appearance-based...
Artificial intelligence: implications for social work writing
Health, Sports & Psychology

Artificial intelligence: implications for social work writing

...research into social work writing (Lillis et al., 2017) can help us consider the current opportunities and challenges that AI brings. Understanding the core elements of social work writing and how social workers learn to write effectively is crucial. Social workers need to consider how to use AI effectively in their writing without compromising their professional ethics...
Developing Stamina for Decolonising Higher Education
Education & Development

Developing Stamina for Decolonising Higher Education

...researchers, artists, educators, students, activists and ancestral/Indigenous knowledge keepers who work together to develop educational and artistic experiments. There are many different ways of conceptualising decolonisation, but in the GTDF Collective we approach it as a difficult, ongoing process and long-term horizon, rather than a single event. This is because, in...
Differences and Similarities: Policing in the US and the UK
Education & Development

Differences and Similarities: Policing in the US and the UK

...Research Service, 2017) US England & Wales More guns than people: It is estimated that there are 120.5 civilian firearms (legal and illegal) per 100 people in the US in 2017 This means that with a population of 326 million (2017), there were 393 million guns Far fewer civilian firearms: It is estimated that there are 4.6 civilian firearms (legal and illegal) per 100...
Decolonising computing?
Digital & Computing

Decolonising computing?

...researchers adopting a decolonial computing perspective are required, at a minimum, to do the following: Firstly, consider their geopolitical and body-political orientation when designing, building, researching, or theorising about computing phenomena. Secondly, embrace the “decolonial option” as an ethic, attempting to think through what it might mean to design and...
Supporting young trans people’s rights to health and happiness
Education & Development

Supporting young trans people’s rights to health and happiness

...research with young children shows that from a young age, children who don’t conform to what’s expected from their gender are often socially excluded in obvious or subtle ways. Children learn early to alter aspects of their behaviour to fit into their expected gender roles (Callahan and Nicholas, 2019; Renold, 2005). Even under these pressures, a small percentage of...
Hip Hop, Transculturation and Ethnography in Delhi
Education & Development

Hip Hop, Transculturation and Ethnography in Delhi

...research participants, mostly male breakers, b-boys, in their late teens and early twenties. I conducted participant observation and recorded ethnographic interviews and informal interactions, but several other types of data have been collected as well, such as recordings of public performances at jams, photographs and audio-visual materials circulating online. I also...