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Highs and lows and highs again: How football has changed in the past 50 years
Health, Sports & Psychology

Highs and lows and highs again: How football has changed in the past 50 years

...de Bruyne alone earning £280,000 a week. Manchester City have also benefitted from the sale of clubs to wealthy, overseas investors, in this case the Abu Dhabi United Group owned by Sheikh Mansoor. This is in part due to the attractiveness of the Premier League and the benefits it can bring owners. In 2019 it does seem that football is now a super-rich sport, played by...
The Olympic torch: the truth
History & The Arts

The Olympic torch: the truth

...de Coubertin, mastermind of the modern international Olympic movement, had his sights set on convincing the world of the great artistic and educational potential embodied by the newly revived Olympic Games. In his view, the best way to get his point across was to incorporate a flurry of spectacles including art, music, poetry and architecture alongside the athletic...
The case of Simone Biles and perceptions of athlete mental health
Health, Sports & Psychology

The case of Simone Biles and perceptions of athlete mental health

...de Janeiro five years prior. Despite a few mishaps during qualification, Biles advanced to several finals. During the team final on 27 July 2021, Biles hesitated on her vault mid-air and subsequently left the competition floor before returning shortly after. She later withdrew from the remainder of the team final due to mental health issues, saying she didn’t want to...
How to compare income across countries
Science, Maths & Technology

How to compare income across countries

...based on purchasing power parity (PPP). PPP GDP is gross domestic product converted to international dollars using purchasing power parity rates. An international dollar has the same purchasing power over GDP as the U.S. dollar has in the United States. GDP at purchaser's prices is the sum of gross value added by all resident producers in the economy plus any product...
Introducing International Relations
Society, Politics & Law

Introducing International Relations

...based. While many NGOs might be thought of as individual entities, many are connected to each other via relations of collaboration, reciprocity or shared goals in a network. They are referred to as ‘networked actors’. As such there’s an overlap between NGOs and networks. Corporations and businesses: Large multinational corporations impact global economies, labour...
Accessibility and inclusion in digital health
Health, Sports & Psychology

Accessibility and inclusion in digital health

...based management application allows teams of school nurses to reply; this is conducted anonymously and confidentially. Other initiatives have also been developed for use by children such as web-based initiatives to improve health and wellbeing. These initiatives and Chat Health’s digital interventions are the focus of the next activity. Activity 4 Chat Health, the web...
Making sense of ourselves
Health, Sports & Psychology

Making sense of ourselves

...based on a classic study originally conducted by Russell Fazio and his colleagues in 1995 (though it has been simplified and his methodology adapted). The study uses reaction time measures to access deep-seated association between race and implicit attitudes. Activity 2 The automatic activation of racial attitudes This task requires you to complete what social...
Level 2: Intermediate 4 hrs
Can renewable energy sources power the world? Badge icon
Science, Maths & Technology

Can renewable energy sources power the world?

...based renewals. We then look at current European and UK targets for increasing the share of renewables in the energy mix by 2020 to 2030. We discuss the UK government’s Electricity Market Reform measures and we look at the UK Climate Change Committee’s estimates of the contributions renewables could make to UK energy needs by 2030. We conclude this week with a case...