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Derry Air: the new local history
Society, Politics & Law

Derry Air: the new local history

...base during the battle of the Atlantic in the Second World War, plagued by the ‘troubles’ of internecine religions for the long post-war years, now relatively at peace. All that, and much more, is true, and necessary to know. But I need to add more. Reading a novel about the siege – Derry, famous as ‘the maiden city’ was never in the end taken – added more to...
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By extending the remit of PCCs, the government is playing with fire
Society, Politics & Law

By extending the remit of PCCs, the government is playing with fire

...based on the government’s wish to get rid of “awkward”, locally-elected councillors who block its attempts to cut services. Others feel that this is part of a plan to undermine the power of both police and fire professionals, in a similar vein to the project which replaced 15,000 police staff jobs with a “home guard of 9,000 unpaid police support volunteers”....
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Think you’re better at driving than most? How psychological biases are keeping our roads unsafe
Health, Sports & Psychology

Think you’re better at driving than most? How psychological biases are keeping our roads unsafe

...the number of passengers young drivers can carry during a probationary period after passing their test. Evidence-based changes to laws and policies such as this that reject the notion that road harms are inevitable could meaningfully reduce road deaths and injuries. This article was originally published on The Conversation by Dr Gemma Briggs. Read the original article....
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Investigating Links Between Pesticides and Mental Health
Science, Maths & Technology

Investigating Links Between Pesticides and Mental Health

...based assessments, to investigate how mood disorders present in people that have been exposed to organophosphates. This information will be compared to people with little or no historic exposure, producing a picture of what the effects of exposure might be. Self-reporting is an extremely useful tool, which is only available when working with human participants. However,...
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Haymaking is critical to our heritage meadows, but is later really better?
Nature & Environment

Haymaking is critical to our heritage meadows, but is later really better?

...based on limited data for species-rich floodplain meadows. Missed hay cuts mean rising soil nutrients and falling botanical diversity. [hay in a field.] But is later-cut hay really of lower nutritional value? And is the delay really critical for long term conservation goals? There is a need for more data about how the nutritional content of hay changes during the growing...
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Rocky relations: Why an isolated rock in the Atlantic is a sought after and contested place
Nature & Environment

Rocky relations: Why an isolated rock in the Atlantic is a sought after and contested place

...based trawler, the Northern Celt, that was allegedly fishing within the disputed 12 miles limit around the rock. Dismissing claims by the Scottish Government that this boarding was simply a ‘routine inspection’, Irish authorities made contact with its Scottish and UK counterparts to voice concerns about the incident which saw the Irish vessel given a temporary licence...
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Enabling parents to improve children’s services: Walking the Walk in Evelina London Children’s Hospital
Health, Sports & Psychology

Enabling parents to improve children’s services: Walking the Walk in Evelina London Children’s Hospital

...based approach to quality improvement. It has previously been successfully utilised in acute hospitals, care homes, and GP surgeries. It draws on people’s lived experiences to provide settings with feedback and recommendations about the care environment. It involves three stages: scene setting, the walk-through, and feedback provision (see Figure 1 below). [A diagram...
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Resilience: The magic ingredient for Olympians?
Health, Sports & Psychology

Resilience: The magic ingredient for Olympians?

...based approach to developing psychological resilience for sustained success. Journal of Sport Psychology in Action, 7, 135-157. Nicholl, L. (2017) Better culture creates a stronger system [online]. UK Coaching. Available at: https://www.uksport.gov.uk/news/2017/10/24/uk-sport-statement-on-culture [Accessed 25th November 2020]. Sarkar, M. (2019) How to create psychological...
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