Health, Sports & Psychology
Mind, Body, Media
A collection of resources to help ensure the wellbeing of your family.
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Society, Politics & Law
Exodus: The videos
...family have made the journey from Syria and arrived in Turkey. Should they take the risk and cross the Greece? The crossing What is it really like, bobbing across the Mediterranean in the hope of a better life? Hassan and his fellow refugees put their lives in peril on the sea. Looking for the smugglers Ahmed is in Calais - but having crossed mainland Europe, he needs...
Languages
Andante: beginners' Italian
...food and drinks. Buying food at a market Listen to short exchanges at a fruit market and a deli. Booking into a hotel Practise the sound of the letter ‘r’ booking into a hotel. Talking about recent holidays Learn how to use the present perfect tense for describing the past. Talking about families Learn how to use the possessive adjectives for talking about families....
Society, Politics & Law
Newry: Frontier town or border city?
...tree at the head of the strand), situated in the Gap of the North, has long been part of the most direct route between Leinster and Ulster. Its close proximity to Carlingford Lough, to which it is connected by the Clanrye/Newry River, has ensured that Newry has for many centuries acted as a conduit for both people and goods entering and departing Ireland. [Newry town]...
Health, Sports & Psychology
Grief and COVID-19: Mourning what we know, who we miss and the way we say goodbye
...family and friends. Many within society have also been affected by loss of their loved ones and it is important to recognize that may individuals are currently grieving following bereavement this year. To understand the psychological impact of COVID-19, academics and researchers, such as Dr Kerry Jones, Lecturer in End of Life Care, Dr Sharon Mallon, Senior Lecturer in...
Society, Politics & Law
Radical alternatives to prison
...familial violence; can barely read or write and have been expelled or truanted from school; were unemployed or on benefits before imprisonment, and have multiple and often serious mental health problems. [On Sept. 8, 2015, Coyote Ridge Corrections Center, USA] The first and most significant radical alternative to prison is to introduce social policies that are directed at...
Health, Sports & Psychology
Methods in Motion: Emotionally sensing knowledge
...Family in Urban Senegal on the methodological complexities of producing ‘emotionally sensed knowledge’, while the post on 3 March by our co-investigator Jane McCarthy explored What We Don’t Know in Cross-Cultural Research. Given our focus on understanding the material and emotional significance of the death of a relative, we sought to engage in an approach of...
Health, Sports & Psychology
Why getting active with children is good for parents too
...families off onto a lifelong ‘physical literacy’ journey. Physical literacy is all about supporting everyone to develop a lifelong love of movement, helping them to be active wherever and however they want to. An important aspect of this is recognising that physical activity is not the same as sport. Feedback from parents involved in the project showed that they had...