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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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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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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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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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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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Saint Patrick and modern narratives of Irish identity
OpenLearn Ireland

Saint Patrick and modern narratives of Irish identity

...thinking but here’s to you Mrs. Robinson, our first female president. U2 were conquering the airwaves and our tiny nation of just 4.5ish million people was smashing it in soccer. When a country does well in sports, birth rates often reflect it. In 1990, Italia 90 for you soccer/football folks the BEBO (a pre-Facebook social media site)Generation emerged. There are lots...
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'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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Bob Dylan as Nobel Laureate: Two reactions
History & The Arts

Bob Dylan as Nobel Laureate: Two reactions

...think he should get the prize at some point). For some, the pathos of what seems to be an annual exercise in disappointment has become darkly comical: 「今年こそ村上春樹がノーベル文学賞か!?」と一応煽ってからの落選という一連の様式美は、もはや伝統芸の域に達していると言ってもは過言ではあるまい。家に帰る...
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