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Dealing with Change
Health, Sports & Psychology

Dealing with Change

...world has been impacted by change to some extent. For many people the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic brought with it a different way of doing things, whether that was simply by washing your hands for longer, not shaking hands with others, working from home, or not being able to work. This theme is about change, dealing with change and the aftermath of changing situations....
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Wangari Maathai: standing up for women and the environment
Nature & Environment

Wangari Maathai: standing up for women and the environment

...world. Coincidentally, March 3rd is designated by the African Union since 2002, and is celebrated as Africa Environment Day. The latter celebration happens to have another name as well: “Wangari Maathai Day” as a tribute to the late environmentalist and first female African Nobel Peace Prize winner, Wangari Maathai of Kenya (1940–2011). These two interrelated events...
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Parenting as a South Asian parent in the UK
Education & Development

Parenting as a South Asian parent in the UK

...world football and basketball (the US NBA) than I would ever know in five lifetimes (like many Indians it is not surprising to travel through multiple lives in our imagination!). Over their respective life spans both have decided on many matters including their educational journeys. In this short piece I reflect on parenting in a personal way and this narrower range of...
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Is your social media use impacting your future?
Health, Sports & Psychology

Is your social media use impacting your future?

...world of social media is constantly changing with new sites and apps being added to the offering. In 2019, the most popular social networks worldwide were Facebook, YouTube, WhatsApp, Facebook Messenger and WeChat (Statista, 2019). You might have heard of the following types of platform: Wikis such as Wikipedia. Blogs such as WordPress and Tumblr. Microblogs such as...
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The environmental costs of Trump’s wall
Nature & Environment

The environmental costs of Trump’s wall

...world consistently call for more permeable border fences in order to allow animals to move through them. One 2011 study even looked specifically at the US-Mexico border. The authors warned species were being forced into risky unfenced “bottlenecks” and called for better planning tailored towards wildlife movement. Our knowledge of how to conserve animals across...
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The ‘boundarylessness’ of African-Caribbean religions
History & The Arts

The ‘boundarylessness’ of African-Caribbean religions

...world as a space where processes of creolisation, assimilation and syncretisation were and are still negotiated. He emphasised that Atlantic religions and identities are in a constant process of mixing and re-making. This was exemplified in the twentieth century by the advent of the Rastafari movement. Today, Santeria, Vodou and Rastafari are not embraced only in the...
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The Unsung Women Who Shaped the Blues
Languages

The Unsung Women Who Shaped the Blues

...world and laying the groundwork for future music genres, such as R&B, rock ‘n’ roll and blues rock. Furthermore, their lyrics offered ‘an unprecedented new arena of self-expression’ as they often sang about ‘overt sexuality, abusive men and even queer perspectives’. Together, they articulated a ‘collective experience of freedom’, thereby defying social...
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The drive to improve patient safety in the NHS in England
Health, Sports & Psychology

The drive to improve patient safety in the NHS in England

...world” (p4). The report is equally emphatic that the solution does not on the whole lie with blaming individuals, or rooting out incompetent or negligent staff. Sometimes, of course, individuals do need to be held transparently to account, when they have been willfully or recklessly negligent or involved in mistreatment. However, the report takes a strong stance that...
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