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Vitality Netball Nations Cup 2025: can the England Roses go all the way?
Health, Sports & Psychology

Vitality Netball Nations Cup 2025: can the England Roses go all the way?

...leadership under Head Coach – Jess Thirlby. In 2023, the Roses secured an impressive bronze medal at the Fast5 Netball World Series and silver in the Netball World Cup, showing their ability to compete against the best in the world. In 2024, England won the Taini Jamison Trophy Series for a second time. For 2025, the 10-strong squad is quite a new team and has the...
The psychological benefits of multilingualism
Languages

The psychological benefits of multilingualism

...leadership (Herman et al. 2010; Tang, Yin, and Nelson 2010; Lee, Gettman, and Swanson 2013). Due to their multilingual skills and language-learning experiences, polyglots are thus more likely to be in control and at ease when faced with the wide range of issues that life will throw at them. They are also likely to perform well in cross-cultural settings as they value...
Critical social work practice
Health, Sports & Psychology

Critical social work practice

...leadership A look at managing change and what is required of the leader and their staff. The impact of change on young people's residential units Jean Clark talks about her reaction when encountering change within the workplace. The impact of change on mental health provision A look at a social worker, who works with adults with severe mental health problems, and her...
Reacting to Hillary Clinton's nomination
Society, Politics & Law

Reacting to Hillary Clinton's nomination

...leadership in this country and around the world. Clinton enters the general election season with a unique set of advantages and disadvantages. She became a household name as First Lady. This notoriety helped her in the primaries against the lesser known Bernie Sanders, but it also repels some voters, who, fairly or unfairly, did not appreciate her role in her husband’s...
US Election 2016: A last week reading list
Society, Politics & Law

US Election 2016: A last week reading list

...leadership style, public opinion is too biased, the political system is too complicated, power is too decentralized, and interests are too diverse for one person, no matter how extraordinary, to dominate. Neither the public nor Congress is likely to respond to the White House’s efforts at persuasion. Presidents cannot create opportunities for change. There is...
Review: Chavs - The Demonization of the Working Class
Society, Politics & Law

Review: Chavs - The Demonization of the Working Class

...leadership of an order few nations in decline seem able to muster. Margaret Thatcher was the main beneficiary of the unearned bonus of North Sea energy, but there seems to have been little effort to use that potential for any purposeful national renewal. Trade unionists in engineering led imaginative campaigns for a future not based on arms sales, but they received little...
Signposts for Work
Health, Sports & Psychology

Signposts for Work

...leadership skills (e.g., ability to motivate others, have a positive mindset, take the initiative, make decisions, and accept responsibility). Furthermore, the CBI (Confederation of British Industry) (2019) CBI/Pearson Education and Skills Survey Report, which includes 190,000 employers, places strong emphasis on how essential and interconnected character, knowledge and...
Settling Uncertainty? Reflections on the Scottish Independence Referendum
Society, Politics & Law

Settling Uncertainty? Reflections on the Scottish Independence Referendum

...leadership position in many ways echoes what has happened in Scotland: that there is a significant element of the population who are both sickened by the policies of the Tories that are ravaging disadvantaged working class communities across the UK and are determined to oppose austerity politics and policies. This emerging movement strongly echoes the pro-independence...