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Intuitive eating: a new relationship with food, or another fad diet?
OpenLearn Ireland

Intuitive eating: a new relationship with food, or another fad diet?

...Project Board. Available at: https://publichealth.ie/sites/default/files/2023-02/wp-content/uploads/2023/01/WSA-approach-to-obesity-prevention-final.pdf (Accessed: 08 Jan 2024) Castellanos, E.H. et al. (2009) ‘Obese adults have visual attention bias for food cue images: evidence for altered reward system function’, International Journal of Obesity, 33(9), pp....
Killed by Agatha Christie: Strychnine and the detective novel
History & The Arts

Killed by Agatha Christie: Strychnine and the detective novel

...Project Gutenberg and elsewhere for free. And that Miss Agatha Christie would probably have considered a crime as well. Note: I linked to my Sayers and arsenic piece, from the first round of Science of Mysteries, in the post. If you are curious about the rest of that package, Jennifer’s posts can be found here and here. Ann’s is here. They are brilliant, of course....
Researching at the Margins: How Collective Autoethnography centred Black mothers’ knowledge
Society, Politics & Law

Researching at the Margins: How Collective Autoethnography centred Black mothers’ knowledge

...project received ethics approval, we formalised what we were already doing. We transcribed relevant voice notes and developed intentional reflections, guided by the same prompts we used with our participants. We also conducted what we called a bilateral focus group, interviewing each other using the same questions posed to the mothers in our study. These reflections...
A Black feminist approach to explore the policing of Black youth
Society, Politics & Law

A Black feminist approach to explore the policing of Black youth

...project to their children both a conscious and unconscious value-coded repertoire of white sanctioned behaviours that psychosocially regulates and controls her Black child. Criminalisation and policing – do Black Lives Matter? Contemporary UK statistics evidence the use of restraint found to be more prevalent in cases of Black and Minority Ethnic (BME) people who have...
Can we live harmoniously with wildlife?
Nature & Environment

Can we live harmoniously with wildlife?

...project tiger in 1973. But it comes with its own set of problems. India’s 380+ people per square km (compared to 34 in the U.S., 145 in China, 24 in Brazil) live alongside almost two-thirds of the world’s tigers and Asian elephants. So a western conservation model may not be the solution. Only five per cent of the landmass is ‘protected’ for wildlife, but wild...
FGM prevalence and healthcare planning
Health, Sports & Psychology

FGM prevalence and healthcare planning

...projected to have it by 2030 4.4 million girls are at risk of being impacted by FGM annually. FGM is practised in at least 92 countries. It is largely prevalent in over 30 African countries (over 144 million cases), parts of the Middle East (6 million cases), Asia (over 80million cases) and practised in smaller numbers in certain indigenous communities in Latin American...
Religion and Violence
History & The Arts

Religion and Violence

...project Religious Toleration and Peace. You can learn more about this is another Open Learn short course ‘Young People and Religion: Creative Learning with History’. Further reading Karen Armstrong, Fields of Blood: Religion and the History of Violence (London: The Bodley Head, 2014). Clinton Bennett, In Search of Solutions: The Problem of Religion and Conflict...
Children and young people’s participation
Education & Development

Children and young people’s participation

...projects or activities in a positive way Empowerment for children as individuals and as members of society Spaces for children to have influence on actions and decisions that affect their lives Space and time for children to identify and analyse problems, and even suggest solutions to those problems...Children and young people’s participation: 1.2 Independent studies -...