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Lesbian, gay and bisexual teenagers at much greater risk of depression
Health, Sports & Psychology

Lesbian, gay and bisexual teenagers at much greater risk of depression

...social progress in terms of the legal rights of sexual minority people, especially in wealthy countries. It might be easy to assume that life should have got considerably better for LGB young people. But the social and legal progress that has been driven largely by adults does not necessarily result in the improved psychological well-being of sexual minority young people....
Harry Potter and Parenting
Education & Development

Harry Potter and Parenting

...social care practitioners. The Weasleys’ home at The Burrow presents us with an image of an impoverished, chaotic but loving and inclusive family, a contrast to the perfectly tidy but completely loveless world of Privet Drive, home of the Dursleys.In the opening scene of the first book we see the orphaned Harry being delivered, as a baby, to the home of his adoptive...
How are Snapchat filters allowing survivors of sexual assault tell their stories?
Digital & Computing

How are Snapchat filters allowing survivors of sexual assault tell their stories?

...social media app Snapchat in an innovative way to enable victims of sexual violence to tell their stories without revealing their identities. [Snapchat logo on a phone on a bed] Like in many other countries, violence against women is a serious problem in India. It has led authorities to enact numerous stringent laws against perpetrators. Despite this, not many victims...
Trust in the Workplace
Health, Sports & Psychology

Trust in the Workplace

...social and political attitudes and behaviours. A lack of trust predictably can lead to tribalism, conflict, and lack of cooperation with the social good. The COVID-19 pandemic of 2020/2021 has in this sense provided a glimpse of a future in which relationships are rapidly changing, in which taken for granted notions of working practices are overturned and relationships...
Active Citizenship in Wales
Society, Politics & Law

Active Citizenship in Wales

...social change in WalesDr Donna Smith and Dr Jenny Hewitt, The Open University ‘Changemakers’ is an ambitious Open Societal Challenges project at The Open University, aimed at improving the political understanding of young people aged 16-24 in the UK, through the development of resource(s) that help them to better understand how to be active citizens. More Initially...
The impact of COVID-19 on Black children and young people living in London
Education & Development

The impact of COVID-19 on Black children and young people living in London

...Social spaces Relationships Lessons learned during lockdown Hopes for the future The researchers are currently halfway through data collection of twenty-five participants and this project is a pilot to explore issues which are important to children and young people in a view to turn this into a larger project. The lives of Black children and young people are often...
What does it mean to be a South Asian young adult carer?
Health, Sports & Psychology

What does it mean to be a South Asian young adult carer?

...social care and education professionals. Are you a young adult carer? Alternatively, if you are a South Asian parent of a young person, perhaps your daughter or son is a carer? What do South Asian young adult carers do? We are carrying out research with South Asian young adult carers living in England (see below). We interviewed them about what their caring roles involve....
The physical impacts of ADHD
Health, Sports & Psychology

The physical impacts of ADHD

...socially with lots of people, can be triggers. The headaches can be intense enough to be distracting and stop me from working effectively. As someone who might otherwise struggle to focus and get things done, this added layer is not only painful but also incredibly frustrating. Fatigue – there are times when the cumulative toll of trying to ‘manage my ADHD’ (or...