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Wheelchair basketball player Yasmin on coaching, classification and the cost of disability sport
Health, Sports & Psychology

Wheelchair basketball player Yasmin on coaching, classification and the cost of disability sport

...public, but has it made taking up their chosen sport easier for competitors such as Yasmin? “With each Paralympic Games, we see an increase in people wanting to join in with disability sport”, she says. “The sports I play certainly see more people at least giving it a try, but an unfortunate aspect of disability sport is that it costs way too much. If someone...
Learning from the past with historic buildings
History & The Arts

Learning from the past with historic buildings

...public housing, with terrible results for families and a lack of political support, in favour of private, market provision. So we have continued to favour what are now established traditions, like the English terrace house. [A typical English terrace house ] How much change can we make without damaging the buildings we are trying to pass on to future generations? How can...
D-Day, the Battle of Normandy, and the British Military Nursing Services
Health, Sports & Psychology

D-Day, the Battle of Normandy, and the British Military Nursing Services

...Publications. Nicholson, V. (2011) Millions like us. Women’s lives in war and peace 1939-1949, London, Penguin. Taylor, E. (1997) Front-line Nurse. British Nurses in World War II, Bury St Edmunds, St Edmundsbury Press. Taylor, E. (1999) Combat Nurse, London, Robert Hale. Tyrer, N. (2008) Sisters in Arms. British Army nurses tell their story, London, Weidenfeld &...
Drugs and the law: Legal highs
Society, Politics & Law

Drugs and the law: Legal highs

...public attitudes to the use of drugs. The survey found that about three quarters of respondents aged 16–59 thought that it was acceptable for people of their own age to get drunk occasionally but only 5 per cent of adults believed that it was acceptable to get drunk frequently. However only a minority thought that it was acceptable to take illicit drugs either...
Is Anthropology of Religion Racist?
History & The Arts

Is Anthropology of Religion Racist?

...public discourse about religions and to reduce religious forms of intolerance. It is important to recognise the extent to which this early scholarship was structured by white supremacy but also to acknowledge that other resources also inhabit these texts which can be put to work towards a reflexive, decolonial anthropology and sociology of religion. Suggested Reading List...
Job Change and the Grief Cycle: The effects of losing our job or changing work role
Health, Sports & Psychology

Job Change and the Grief Cycle: The effects of losing our job or changing work role

...impact. This too has its own cycle of grief for the loss of colleagues, the loss of the unknown and fear for some, that they may be next. Further Reading Kübler-Ross, E. (1970) On death and dying. London: Tavistock Publications. Rousseau, D. M. and Tijoriwala, S. A. (1998) ‘Assessing psychological contracts: Issues, alternatives and measures’, 695, pp. 679–695....
A visit to Ada Lovelace's memorial
History & The Arts

A visit to Ada Lovelace's memorial

...public house of considerable size standing near the crossing of four roads; a substantial parsonage-house, hidden in trees; and a hall neither attractive to the antiquary nor pleasing to the artist, in its exterior, but pleasantly placed and agreeably relieved by foliage. Quite apart from the village - border on its western side by the park, on its eastern and northern by...
Culture and Connections: The Scots-Irish experience in America
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Culture and Connections: The Scots-Irish experience in America

...Public domain, New York Public Library.] McGuffey’s Second Eclectic Reader (1920 edition). The Scots-Irish also contributed to American musical traditions. According to Mick Moloney, a professor of music at New York University, the songs and instrumental music brought by the Scots-Irish to America ‘blended with English, Scottish, African-American, and possibly...