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Riding the carousel or partners for life: what makes an effective coach–athlete relationship in tennis?
Health, Sports & Psychology

Riding the carousel or partners for life: what makes an effective coach–athlete relationship in tennis?

...worked with four coaches since Wimbledon last year. There has been speculation on this high turnover of support particularly when we see that the coach who supported her to victory in the US Open, Andrew Richardson, did not have his contract renewed following the tournament. Indeed, more recently following the parting of ways from her last coach in April of this year,...
Telling Tales: what is happening on police Facebook sites?
Society, Politics & Law

Telling Tales: what is happening on police Facebook sites?

...work. With the right investment, it is an exciting opportunity to allow communities and police to work effectively together...There are some obvious positives for the police arising from communicating with communities via social media, including that it allows them to directly post a story which bypasses the ‘frame’ it might be given by traditional news media....
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

...work if people think the messaging is relevant to them and choose to change their behaviour. But psychological research shows that many people are overconfident in their driving abilities and think it’s ‘normal’ to drive recklessly and break road laws. The number of people who are killed or seriously injured on UK roads has stayed reasonably static since 2012. Five...
Climate change and the built environment
Science, Maths & Technology

Climate change and the built environment

...worked in the construction sector as a structural engineer. I enjoyed my work, but there was something that increasingly bugged me. While the industry’s focus was on the capital cost of a building to the exclusion of operational costs, for carbon emissions it was the other way round - operational carbon was starting to be seen as important, but no-one was talking about...
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

...Working with Evelina London Children’s Hospital The walk-through involved two bereaved parents (recruited by the hospital) and two experienced Walking the Walk leaders. When in clinical areas, they were joined by two senior clinicians (Nurse specialist from the Child Death Review Team and Paediatric Palliative Care Consultant). As they walked from the ‘front door’...
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

...work and dedication of a diverse group of unusual individuals. There were competing ideas of yoga, different forms of practice, and many different points at which yoga entered British culture, as my book Yoga in Britain explores. But there are two women whose dedication and enthusiasm played a huge part in popularising yoga in Britain and whose legacies have sadly been...
The man behind Matilda – what Roald Dahl was really like
History & The Arts

The man behind Matilda – what Roald Dahl was really like

...Working for Love, which was released in 1989. Tessa’s “semi-autobiographical” book describes her childhood bitterness after all the family tragedies and her desperate longing for love. In a 2012 interview she declared that “daddy gave joy to millions of children. But I was dying inside” – accusing him of selfishness and egocentric behaviour. Dahl is also...
History offers Britain an important lesson on shutting down immigration
Society, Politics & Law

History offers Britain an important lesson on shutting down immigration

...work. This left space for the growth of radical parties such as the British National Party and the more recently formed UK Independence Party (UKIP). UKIP was founded in 1991 to oppose the Maastricht Treaty but became more visible in 2004, when it began speaking out more loudly about migration from Europe. That year, it won 12 seats in the European parliamentary...