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Ageing, health inequalities and an integrated approach
Health, Sports & Psychology

Ageing, health inequalities and an integrated approach

...religion, and we must also be mindful of how these different factors combine and affect an individual’s health status, and their access to and experience of health services – often described as intersectionality. Older people’s health inequalities have a broader impact on families and society at large. Someone who spends more of their life in poor health may end up...
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‘Nobody can say to me that I can’t do it’: Exploring the study journey of female students from South Asian backgrounds
Education & Development

‘Nobody can say to me that I can’t do it’: Exploring the study journey of female students from South Asian backgrounds

...religion in defining the experience of female students from South Asian backgrounds. While none of the participants reported experiences of racism or micro-aggressions, their narratives spoke of a lack of visibility of themselves and their lives in their overall university experience. Several factors were identified that supported students’ learning including the online...
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How does online intergroup contact compare with face-to-face?
Health, Sports & Psychology

How does online intergroup contact compare with face-to-face?

...religion, sexuality, disability, gender, etc. While Allport’s focus was exclusively on interpersonal contact, further study extended this idea of contact to include extended contact, particularly vicarious contact, where individuals observe contact between members of different groups, rather than directly experiencing contact themselves. [Two children playing together.]...
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What is Critical Race Theory?
Education & Development

What is Critical Race Theory?

...religion, ability/disability, among others, combine to create different modes of privilege/discrimination and advantage/disadvantage. Recently, CRT has become a controversial theory and approach in the UK. The Department for Education has opposed the teaching of CRT in schools (September 2020) and the current UK government debated the teaching of CRT in schools in the...
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Including diversity in race, ethnicity and culture in your teaching
Education & Development

Including diversity in race, ethnicity and culture in your teaching

...Religion in secularist France is a private matter, and should not be celebrated in public places like schools. Religion in multicultural Britain is a community matter and should be respected by public institutions like schools. The education policy in each of the four UK nations is different, since education is a devolved political matter. There are many interesting...
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Why is it so difficult for Muslim women to play sport?
Health, Sports & Psychology

Why is it so difficult for Muslim women to play sport?

...religion. These are known as Sunnah from the Arabic word meaning ‘tradition’ but for Muslims it means ‘the way of the prophet’, therefore Sunnah sports. [A young child stands at the beginning of a track with hands on her hips looking ahead determinedly. She has a yellow track bib on and 'BP13' is marked in black on a background of red. ] Nowadays I see a lot of...
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Early modern Europe: an introduction
History & The Arts

Early modern Europe: an introduction

...religion, ideas and everyday life, but also one of strong continuities with earlier times. This free course, Early modern Europe: an introduction, provides an introduction to the early modern period in Europe, exploring how historians have defined and approached the period, and analysing the key aspects of the time. Please note that terms in bold are defined in the...
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Were most women overlooked from the Ascent of Woman?
Society, Politics & Law

Were most women overlooked from the Ascent of Woman?

...religion and enterprise, the foundation pillars of the British middle classes in the late 17th and early 18th centuries. While the BBC programme explores cultural and material histories, usually in relation to costumes of display, the stories they have to tell of ordinary women’s daily lives remain hidden. So in arguing her thesis, Foreman actually flattens the history...
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