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Blood, bruises and belief: how England’s women’s rugby team embody physical and mental endurance
Health, Sports & Psychology

Blood, bruises and belief: how England’s women’s rugby team embody physical and mental endurance

...becomes a crucible – a place of intense pressure and transformation – where focus sharpens, rituals are repeated and the ‘game face’ goes on. That game face is more than a stare. It’s the product of years of physical and psychological battles. It’s the mindset that lets an athlete walk into the arena with purpose and conviction, no matter what pain or setbacks...
The legal profession has a mental health problem – which is an issue for everyone
Society, Politics & Law

The legal profession has a mental health problem – which is an issue for everyone

...become a barrier to promotion. Participants have also discussed a traditional lack of investment into supporting the mental health of lawyers. Legal trauma [Pensive, sad or depressed?] Other lawyers have told us about the negative impacts of working with traumatised individuals, hearing traumatic narratives, or working with distressing evidence – for example, material...
Ambitions for Palliative and End of Life Care: making sense of a national framework for local action
Health, Sports & Psychology

Ambitions for Palliative and End of Life Care: making sense of a national framework for local action

...become familiar with the guidance and begin their journey of understanding, interpreting, and implementing the framework. This research was funded by Marie Curie. References, sources and links Borgstrom, E. and Lemos Dekker, N. (2022) 'Standardising care of the dying: An ethnographic analysis of the Liverpool Care Pathway in England and the Netherlands', Sociology of...
Forgotten families
Health, Sports & Psychology

Forgotten families

...become homeless and may be placed in dangerous or abusive situations. The loss felt by children can go beyond separation from a parent and includes loss of friends and a sense of belonging. The need for secrecy can make it difficult for children to process their loss. This can be further compounded by the nature of the parental crime with sexual offences identified as...
Why is aggressive female sexuality pathologised on-screen?
Health, Sports & Psychology

Why is aggressive female sexuality pathologised on-screen?

...becomes less of an agent and more of an agency. The shift from the noun “agent” to the verb “agency” is important: it signifies a transition in Carrie’s identity and place. She is not a solid person or subject but a fluent action that propels the plot and enables others. Women have often been positioned as agents of change, fluid bodies who have suffered from...
King Charles I, 1600 - 1649
History & The Arts

King Charles I, 1600 - 1649

...becoming increasingly tense, and when religious antagonisms (at home and abroad) were growing in volatility. Only an extremely flexible and imaginative monarch could hope to steer the ship of state through these dangers, but Charles' behaviour and strategy indicated a singular lack of such qualities. Charles was born on 19th November 1600, the second son of James VI/I and...
What is Critical Race Theory?
Education & Development

What is Critical Race Theory?

...become a controversial theory and approach in the UK. The Department for Education has opposed the teaching of CRT in schools (September 2020) and the current UK government debated the teaching of CRT in schools in the House of Commons declaring itself ‘unequivocally against’ it. Proponents of CRT have critiqued the backlash from the government as a misinterpretation...
The impact of COVID-19 on Black children and young people living in London
Education & Development

The impact of COVID-19 on Black children and young people living in London

...become a professional sports person, and this will help support him in keeping healthy. Food was something which was discussed regularly in the interviews. Some participants spent more time cooking during lockdown and trying new recipes. For example, a twenty-one-year-old said that cooking took her mind off things as she had been experiencing high anxiety. She lost a...