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Blood, bruises and belief: how England’s women’s rugby team embody physical and mental endurance
Health, Sports & Psychology

Blood, bruises and belief: how England’s women’s rugby team embody physical and mental endurance

...sustained investment in the women’s game: not just in players, but in the infrastructure around them. Since 2009, nearly £50 million in National Lottery funding has gone into girls’ and women’s rugby. The Impact 25 legacy programme – World Rugby’s initiative to grow the women’s game before, during and long after the 2025 tournament – is injecting a further...
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Ageing, health inequalities and an integrated approach
Health, Sports & Psychology

Ageing, health inequalities and an integrated approach

...sustainable transport solutions are just two examples. Employers also have a role to play in ensuring the workplace is accessible and inclusive so that older people with physical or health problems, including terminal illness, are able to stay in work if they choose to. [A homeless elderly man] At a more local level, we can consider what role we have to play within our...
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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

...Sustainability Saltus, R (2020) Holding on to the gains: Understanding the impact of the COVID-19 crisis on BAME groups in Wales Saltus, R (2020) On yearning for the ‘old ways’ in the time of COVID – Sitting in the Twilight: Wellbeing, Aloneness and Leisure: Capturing the stories of Caribbean Migrants, 80 years + Bevan Foundation (2022) State of Wales Briefing: How...
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The first 25 years: OU Renewable Energy Education
Nature & Environment

The first 25 years: OU Renewable Energy Education

...Sustainable Future co-published by Oxford University Press - now in its fourth edition, for which I contributed the Wind Energy chapter in each edition. Since 2015, it has been consistently positioned at No.1 in the Top 10 Best Books on Renewable Energy chart compiled by EARTHAVA 10 Best Renewable Energy Books Of 2020 - Earthava. Over the last quarter of a century, we...
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What is Critical Race Theory?
Education & Development

What is Critical Race Theory?

...sustain institutional and individual racism?...A theoretical framework or paradigm that seeks to uncover the ways that institutional, structural, and systemic racism operate and manifest in people’s lives and in society is Critical Race Theory (CRT) (Bonilla-Silva, 1997; Ladson-Billings, 1998; Solorzano and Yosso, 2000; Delgado and Stefancic, 2001; Gillborn, 2008)....
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Charles Dickens, Race and Colonialism
History & The Arts

Charles Dickens, Race and Colonialism

...sustain different interpretation is what makes them so fascinating. Literary works are also inescapably of their time, and solidarity with contemporary movements for social justice and reparation for historical racism means that alongside a renewed attention to excluded or forgotten authors of colour we must pay even greater attention to ‘national’ authors such as...
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...sustainable business models. We improve learner esteem and confidence by helping them gain badges and statements of participation. The Open University has a radical and pioneering approach to access. Matching a refusal to place qualifications barriers in front of our own students, we also have a commitment to release and promote free learning content for others, for the...
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The US Presedential Election 2016: The first GOP debate
Society, Politics & Law

The US Presedential Election 2016: The first GOP debate

...Sustainable Enterprise at University of Michigan. Hoffman has written extensively about corporate responses to climate change. He has published twelve books, most recently: How Culture Shapes the Climate Change Debate. Fiorina the early winner Andra Gillespie, Emory University The first Republican debate lived up to the hype, though probably not in the way that most...
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