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Sibling rivalry: An important ingredient in sporting success?
Health, Sports & Psychology

Sibling rivalry: An important ingredient in sporting success?

...family play? Family influences give rise to a range of interesting discussions with family related topics such as genetics, environmental influences and social issues all identified as being important contributors to athletic development. Research shows that families play an important role in introducing and supporting athletes throughout the various stages of their...
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Article 10 mins
An invisible group: Young people’s experiences of living with a loved one who is seriously ill
Health, Sports & Psychology

An invisible group: Young people’s experiences of living with a loved one who is seriously ill

...family circumstances has been described as ‘living with an elephant’ in the room where everyone pretends it isn’t there and no-one wants to talk about it. Despite the wealth of research available in the field of bereavement, palliative care and mental health very little is actually known about the lived experiences of children and young people living with a loved...
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Understanding children: babies being heard
Education & Development

Understanding children: babies being heard

...family life and relationships from birth. You will look at what they need from other adults and children, and what they can learn...In this free course, Understanding children: babies being heard, you will find out some of the things that very young babies can do. You will also discover how babies can contribute to family life and relationships from birth. You will look...
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Level 1: Introductory 5 hrs
Direct-to-consumer (DTC) genetic testing
Science, Maths & Technology

Direct-to-consumer (DTC) genetic testing

...family history by comparing their DNA to others from around the world. This information isn’t always accurate, and the tests can struggle to give precise details about exactly where someone’s ancestors came from. Ancestry tests may also reveal family secrets that are upsetting to the person taking the test and their family, like a child finding out their father...
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Methods in Motion: Clashing loyalties
History & The Arts

Methods in Motion: Clashing loyalties

...family memoir. However, the seminar stirred two methodological questions. Firstly, what can we draw from different academic disciplines? Debates about the divided loyalties of communists involved in espionage have been largely confined to intelligence studies, with little interest among labour historians, political scientists or sociologists. While attention has been...
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Article 5 mins
Harry Potter and Parenting
Education & Development

Harry Potter and Parenting

...family, tell us about parent-child relationships?...The orphaned child is a familiar figure in children’s literature. Getting parents out of the way is often a necessary precursor that enables child protagonists to embark on adventures without adult interference. But in J.K.Rowling’s Harry Potter series, the young hero’s parentless state is more than a mere plot...
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Methods in Motion: The middle children
Languages

Methods in Motion: The middle children

...family and friends who don’t speak the local language. Termed ‘child language brokers,’ their rapid language learning at school means they often linguistically mediate on behalf of family very soon after arrival — they also find themselves acting as cultural mediators as they navigate different institutional practices, norms and values. The brokering, which takes...
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How time and place matter for migrants’ social mobility
Society, Politics & Law

How time and place matter for migrants’ social mobility

...family and citizenship. When people's lifecourse is in tune with opportunities to migrate, access employment opportunities and combine this with raising families, they can build their cultural, social and economic resources for social mobility matter. Firstly, our analytical framework highlights interconnections across these micro, meso and macro levels. For example,...
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