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Journeying through wellbeing: Exploring mental health and wellbeing
Health, Sports & Psychology

Journeying through wellbeing: Exploring mental health and wellbeing

...family members who recognise that something is wrong. They might see that their relative is not functioning or coping with the ordinary demands of everyday life. This can present itself in a variety of ways, for example poor appetite, trouble sleeping, or loss of interest in usual hobbies. However, the diagnosis of a mental health problem is dependent on the...
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Article 10 mins
EPQs: designing your research question
Education & Development

EPQs: designing your research question

...family. Perhaps there’s something that you’re already very interested in and you want to take a bit further. It might be that you want to develop skills that will be useful to you at university, such as studying independently, understanding how research works and communicating well. Perhaps it’s as simple as you’d like something to put on your UCAS statement, to...
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Population ageing: a global health crisis?
Health, Sports & Psychology

Population ageing: a global health crisis?

...history the young have always outnumbered the elderly. Over the next 40 years this will change. The population over 60 will grow by 1 billion to a total of 2 billion. For the first time in human history, there will be more people over 60 than under 15. 1 in every 5 people will be elderly. In 1950 there were 12 working people for every elderly person. Today: 9. 2050: 4....
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Level 2: Intermediate 6 hrs
Additional efforts: Why we need to be better at maths
Education & Development

Additional efforts: Why we need to be better at maths

...family think about mathematics: “My mum doesn’t really like me asking her because she thinks she doesn’t have a maths brain. She thinks that she’s got more of an English brain than anything else.” Not surprisingly, Molly was not the only child who made that kind of comment. Parents’ negative attitudes or beliefs do have the potential to negatively influence...
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Methods in Motion: Politics is awash with large emotions... isn't it?
Society, Politics & Law

Methods in Motion: Politics is awash with large emotions... isn't it?

...family suggest that feelings often ran high and that many relatives were sometimes neither rational nor reasonable. It may be that the language in which politics was analysed and reported was much cooler, and the question of emotion was not seen as relevant. But that is not the same as the absence of emotion, more a change in forms of public culture and discourse (which...
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Even the homeless can have a 'home'
Society, Politics & Law

Even the homeless can have a 'home'

...family or a friendship group. Some even understand their home in connection to the land, or as a content state of mind. By making these comments, Justice Lloyd affords Stanley the dignity of having a recognisable defensible space, marked out by his possessions, which to all intents and purposes is his home – and should be respected as such. A changing city Since the...
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Coronavirus: How can athletes get through this period of isolation?
Health, Sports & Psychology

Coronavirus: How can athletes get through this period of isolation?

...through this difficult period stronger and better prepared for the challenges to come. There is also the problem of boredom and lack of stimulation. However, as many families forced to stay at home are finding out, boredom can be a powerful stimulus for creativity and innovation. Ultimately the most important is keeping safe and healthy and maintaining a positive mindset....
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What’s the big deal about virginity?
History & The Arts

What’s the big deal about virginity?

...families. Another example of the spiritual importance assigned to female virginity is the veneration of Jesus’ mother as the Blessed Virgin Mary within many forms of Christianity. There have been fierce controversies within and between different Christian traditions around the importance assigned to different stages of Mary’s virginity before, at and after Jesus’...
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