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Addressing health inequalities in greenspaces to age well: Part II diversity and safety
Health, Sports & Psychology

Addressing health inequalities in greenspaces to age well: Part II diversity and safety

...becomes self-perpetuating. [Safer parks illustration showing a park with a welcome sign]Credit: NCYA Harper Perry Some of the reasons for lack of engagement may also be due to feeling unsafe or unwelcome. If natural spaces are more likely to be accessed by people of a white background, then people from an ethnic minority background who have experienced racism may feel...
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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...
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Lesbianism and the criminal law of England and Wales
Society, Politics & Law

Lesbianism and the criminal law of England and Wales

...become a crime. The MPs who introduced the proposal – as a tactic to waste parliamentary time – claimed that lesbianism was a growing problem. Other MPs and peers were unconvinced: a former Director of Public Prosecutions said criminalisation ‘would [make] public to thousands of people that there was this offence; that there was such a horror.’3 One MP argued that...
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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...
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Young children and the climate crisis
Education & Development

Young children and the climate crisis

...become like a production line of nature experiences - cut a wood cookie, experience a fire - commodified for their learning potential. Anxiety, injustice and rights Climate anxiety is growing in young people, according to a global survey, and young children are not immune from older children’s worries. They are feelings shared by adults too. These are not abstract fears...
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Sherry is not just for Christmas
Science, Maths & Technology

Sherry is not just for Christmas

...become more familiar with the varieties of sherry and realised that dry Sherries are really quite good. As a chemist I wanted to understand what makes a good sherry wine? Is it artistry or science? Well actually it’s a bit of both. Sherry is unique to Spain and can only be made from vines growing in a small area in the southern region around the city of Jerez . Here the...
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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...
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Earth Day on OpenLearn
Nature & Environment

Earth Day on OpenLearn

...become clutter to hoard or will it end up in a landfill? It’s desirable to purchase new material goods, but before purchasing something brand new, is there something you already have that could be reused? Could you borrow it from a friend instead, or see if there is anything available second-hand? Everything you buy second-hand is saving it from landfill. Some items do...
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