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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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How yoga conquered Britain: the feminist legacy of Yogini Sunita and Kailash Puri
Health, Sports & Psychology

How yoga conquered Britain: the feminist legacy of Yogini Sunita and Kailash Puri

...based on Ayurvedic principles. Kailash Puri also gave lessons in healthy eating and cooking with vegetables and her influence in this area extended to her acting as an Indian cookery consultant to Marks & Spencer during the 1970s. Like Sunita, the Puris also emphasised yoga as relaxation, an antidote to the problems of modern life – stress, materialism and emotional...
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A focus on misogynoir – the anti-Black forms of misogyny that Black women experience
Education & Development

A focus on misogynoir – the anti-Black forms of misogyny that Black women experience

...based on the concept of intersectionality by Black feminist scholar Moya Bailey, and refers to the specific forms of misogyny that Black women encounter at the intersection of racism and sexism. Misogynoir has a significant influence on the lives and online experiences of Black women but is still relatively understudied. Tone policing, racial gaslighting, white centring...
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Teaching equality: unconscious bias in education
Education & Development

Teaching equality: unconscious bias in education

...based rap artist Akala. I couldn’t get along with the music, but I read his book Natives. I haven’t been totally ignorant of Britain’s colonial past. I’m a literature student; Rushdie taught me about partition, I know about China’s Opium Wars, even Jane Austen hints at the slave trade. But apart from Akala’s painfully detailed exposition of the real extent of...
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Ancient ideas: where does the soul go?
History & The Arts

Ancient ideas: where does the soul go?

...based on Epicurus’ atomism. For him, everything in the cosmos was composed of microscopic indivisible particles called atoms (atomos is the Ancient Greek word for ‘uncuttable’) and void. These atoms come together in different combinations – like tiny building blocks – to form everything we perceive in the world around us. When the physical body dies, our soul...
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Terrorism in Europe and beyond: A reading list
Society, Politics & Law

Terrorism in Europe and beyond: A reading list

...base their recruitment strategy on the notion that a war is currently being waged against Islam. If the West defeats IS, depending on how any such ‘victory’ takes place and the actions surrounding it, another manifestation of the terrorist group or a new network altogether will likely take its place. As such, the traditional methods of warfare being used in the Middle...
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Digital humanities: humanities research in the digital age
History & The Arts

Digital humanities: humanities research in the digital age

...based on what they looked for in the past). It may be ranked according to other criteria as well, including the file type or the publisher (perhaps privileging content published by an affiliate of the search engine’s parent company). It could also directly block access to particular documents, perhaps based on laws banning pornography or material deemed supportive of a...
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Level 3: Advanced 10 hrs
Challenging ideas in mental health
Health, Sports & Psychology

Challenging ideas in mental health

...based on, for example, notions of brain dysfunction or genetic predisposition. Mental distress, in those terms, is a disorder of the mind, akin to a physical illness. Social explanations, on the other hand, are based on an understanding of difference and discrimination: on structural factors in society that separate people and may come to oppress them. Another way of...
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Level 2: Intermediate 8 hrs