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Legacy of the Romantics
History & The Arts

Legacy of the Romantics

...think for a moment about the 1960s, this was a decade in which there was a renewed emphasis on Romanticism. The early Romantic innovative vision had clashed with classicism; in the 1960s there was again a striking opposition between tradition and counter-cultures, a desire to ‘get back to nature’, and many people were lured by Eastern mysticism. Rebelliousness and...
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Advance Care Planning (ACP ) - Discuss, Decide, Document and Share
Health, Sports & Psychology

Advance Care Planning (ACP ) - Discuss, Decide, Document and Share

...thinking about, documenting and sharing one’s wishes, beliefs, values and preferences for one’s future care. This process is often captured in a document called an advance care plan. The plan and the conversations around it can be used to help align and coordinate care around these preferences. This means that the care people receive towards the end of their life is...
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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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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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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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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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