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How does trauma influence identity and engagement with extremism?
Health, Sports & Psychology

How does trauma influence identity and engagement with extremism?

...social problems such as drug and alcohol abuse, violent crime, involvement in gangs and self-harm, with extremism being one possible outcome. Trauma can affect how a person sees themselves, others and the world. How much it affects a person is dependent on what happened, how often it happened, how it affected them, how they made sense of it, its consequences, their...
Ethnicity as a Learning Tool
Education & Development

Ethnicity as a Learning Tool

...socially constructed element in our life. Racial formation theory (Omi and Winant, 2014) has posited the existence of individual and global differences in presenting race and ethnicity in learning institutions. The concepts race and ethnicity in a higher educational context cannot be fully understood without exploring the institutional structural system used to address...
The emergence of breaking as an Olympic sport
Health, Sports & Psychology

The emergence of breaking as an Olympic sport

...processes in the development of modern boxing’, Sport in society, 9(4), pp. 542–58. Available at: https://doi.org/10.1080/17430430600768785. Van Gestel, J. (2018) Norbert Elias and the analysis of history and sport: systematizing figurational sociology. London; New York: Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group (Routledge studies in social and political thought, 134)....
Beyond the plate: Autism, food and sensory sensitivities
Health, Sports & Psychology

Beyond the plate: Autism, food and sensory sensitivities

...sensory processing differences weight loss nutritional deficiencies significant psycho-social implications – for example, the child might be unable to eat in the same room as the rest of their family or in the dinner hall at school because they find the smell of the food overwhelming a need for nutritional supplements or tube-feeding. Children with ARFID may have a strong aversion to new food and anxiety around even ......
Racial inequities in health: The impact of COVID-19 in Wales and beyond
Health, Sports & Psychology

Racial inequities in health: The impact of COVID-19 in Wales and beyond

...social policy and practice. About the presentations These presentations were given as part of Inequalities and Solidarities: The impact of Covid in Wales, part of the OpenTalks series of events run by The Open University in Wales. The event took place on Wednesday 4 May 2022. See also [Covid Chronicles from the Margins logo] Covid Chronicles from the Margins investigates...
What will Donald Trump do for the environment?
Nature & Environment

What will Donald Trump do for the environment?

...social organisation to become more influential. Alternative models, based on goals that include the environment and wellbeing, may have more space to establish themselves. Examples include the Genuine Progress Indicator and Gross National Happiness. The next four years will be challenging. Environmentalists will need to be vociferous in raising concerns with the US...
Can we be categorised by our DNA?
Science, Maths & Technology

Can we be categorised by our DNA?

...social construct!” You may have heard experts say this, but what does the science say? Can our DNA group us the way many imagine?...But those people look so different than us! How can scientists deny such a conspicuous difference? If this debate sparks your interest, then this video is for you. Of course, you are not alone. For thousands of years, voyagers, explorers,...
‘Resilience isn’t enough’: why the growth of women’s football could lead to player burnout
Health, Sports & Psychology

‘Resilience isn’t enough’: why the growth of women’s football could lead to player burnout

...social media, where they are expected not only to perform, but to lead, inspire and remain endlessly positive – often while facing online abuse. Chelsea and England star Fran Kirby has spoken openly about the criticism she has received about her body, especially after injuries or illness when she wasn’t at peak fitness. ‘I get called fat all the time’, she has...