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Carers, COVID-19 and Physical Activity: The Research
Health, Sports & Psychology

Carers, COVID-19 and Physical Activity: The Research

...University study around carers and their relationship with physical activity during the COVID-19 pandemic...Even before the COVID-19 pandemic, over 80% of 8,000 unpaid carers lacked the time to take part in their chosen type of physical activity due to their caring duties. The COVID-19 outbreak and the following period of self-isolation made it much harder for carers to...
Selling Empire: Film
History & The Arts

Selling Empire: Film

...universal suffrage in 1931, and a first State Council from the same year. By the time the film appeared there were seven elected Ceylonese to three European ministers, though the latter still controlled the key functions of finance and law. By the same token, the EMB produced a poster extolling Lancashire’s cloth exports to India, at the same time as nationalists urged...
Northern Ireland’s dance to the music of time of Brexit
Society, Politics & Law

Northern Ireland’s dance to the music of time of Brexit

...University, Belfast provides expert evidence on the border question and the various solutions proposed for exiting the SEM and the customs union, whilst maintaining a frictionless border in Ireland. They include, inter alia, trusted traded scheme, maximum facilitation and electronic tracking of cross-border transactions and movements. Hayward and her colleague David...
What is Double Jeopardy?
Society, Politics & Law

What is Double Jeopardy?

...University’s Law qualifications. [lady justice bronze statue] The rule against double jeopardy is an important part of the criminal law of England and Wales, although exceptions to the rule were created in 2003. It means that a person cannot be tried twice for the same crime. Once they have been acquitted (found not guilty), they cannot be prosecuted again even if new...
What is polonium - and why is it so dangerous?
Science, Maths & Technology

What is polonium - and why is it so dangerous?

...University's BSc (Honours) Chemistry qualification. A Swiss forensic report of the exhumed remains of ex-Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat today suggests polonium poisoning may have been the cause of death – but what is polonium, and why is it so deadly? First, we need to understand the basics of radioactivity. Radioactivity is the (term given to the) emission of certain...
Breaking bad: The science of flatulence
Health, Sports & Psychology

Breaking bad: The science of flatulence

...University's Health and Wellbeing courses [LePetoman] Joseph Pujol, "Le Petomane", a late 19th Century French music hall artist whose act consisted of musically breaking wind. Is it time for a post about drugs and farting? Of course it's time for a post about drugs and farting. Drugs do many, many things. Some of these we want, others not so much. The latter get called...
Workshops on gender diversity – helping us move from insults to inclusion.
Health, Sports & Psychology

Workshops on gender diversity – helping us move from insults to inclusion.

...universal human rights principals, all people have the right to an education. But bullying school cultures, where transgender students feel unsafe and unable to learn, pose a major threat to this fundamental right. In 2011, the United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki Moon identified that sexual orientation and gender identity and expression–based bullying is “not...
Honour thy vulnerable witnesses
Health, Sports & Psychology

Honour thy vulnerable witnesses

...University's Psychology courses and qualifications. You see your partner, your friend, your colleague, your neighbour every day, but the moment you try to describe their face, you find yourself awkwardly falling into generic descriptions like “dark hair (dark brownish?), two eyes (brown I think), a mouth a bit full and under the nose which is slightly bigger than...