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Ageing Well Collection
Health, Sports & Psychology

Ageing Well Collection

...thinking about functions we may need to regularly ‘exercise’ if we don’t want to lose them. See below for some tips on how to keep our brains active and healthy for longer. Are you wondering how you can boost your brain health? The way we go about our daily lives can impact our memory and ageing brain – find out more in the ‘My Brain Health Diary’ link below....
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Article 5 mins
How Emma Raducanu’s parents strike the right balance: supporting your child athlete
Health, Sports & Psychology

How Emma Raducanu’s parents strike the right balance: supporting your child athlete

...think that I’ve developed that mentality since a young age.” Finally, Raducanu’s parents seem to stay in the background at her events and are not recognisable. Parental behaviour around training and competition can determine whether a young athlete has a positive sporting experience. For example, warm and supportive parents have been associated with higher levels of...
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Article 5 mins
A brief history of the lens
Society, Politics & Law

A brief history of the lens

...thinking about how we capture images from light through a lens, but it has taken hundreds of years to move from seeing through a lens to keeping the results. That is the breakthrough of photography: a permanent, and portable record of a moment in time, ‘writing the light’. This is how we're able to share a view through a lens. Since the first photographs, the...
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Reflections on resilience for LGBTQ+ asylum seekers
Society, Politics & Law

Reflections on resilience for LGBTQ+ asylum seekers

...think - let us see what works for people, helping build their capacity to thrive and challenge oppressive conditions around them. This article looks at my approach to this in community music work supporting adult LGBTQ+ asylum seekers/refugees. A decade ago, the late Ray Harvey Amer, a retired registered mental health nurse, saw a need for LGBTQ+ asylum seekers to have...
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Sub-concussions in women’s football: what can be done to protect the brains of footballers?
Health, Sports & Psychology

Sub-concussions in women’s football: what can be done to protect the brains of footballers?

...thinking and regulating emotions (McMinn, 2023). Sub-concussions in football Show descriptionA photograph of an injured player on a football pitch Sub-concussions will occur when players head the ball, but they may also occur through bumps, jolts or blows. In particular sub-concussions can be caused by: clashes of heads between players contact between the head and an...
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Article 10 hrs
'A Rose By Any Other Name...': The Importance of Words when it comes to Race
Education & Development

'A Rose By Any Other Name...': The Importance of Words when it comes to Race

...think what is important is true respect for all. People using the most politically correct terms can be the more inherent racists. Someone may use a term that is not now politically correct, or maybe is (not everyone agrees with the term ‘BAME’, after all), but if they are sincere in intent, perhaps we should give them the benefit of the doubt and the chance to...
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Article 10 mins
Five tips to make online teaching neuroinclusive
Education & Development

Five tips to make online teaching neuroinclusive

...think they might not be able to take part in whatever you’ve planned – and work with those students to find an acceptable alternative. 3. Understand attention patterns [Female student lying on a sofa and typing on laptop] We all know that most students can’t maintain full concentration for an hour and a half without their attention wandering. That’s just not how...
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Life in the Palaeozoic
Nature & Environment

Life in the Palaeozoic

...system. They have a skeleton of calcium carbonate, silica, or, as in some bath sponges, horny organic material. Water passes in through the sponge's many surface pores, often to the central cavity of a sack-like body, and out through a large hole at the top. Some have a stalk (Figure 1a), others are encrusting and irregular in shape. Sponges feed by filtering off minute...
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Level 1: Introductory 12 hrs