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Sustainability at Christmas: Considering single use items, traditional plastics and bioplastics
Science, Maths & Technology

Sustainability at Christmas: Considering single use items, traditional plastics and bioplastics

...research into the conservation of bioplastics is crucial not only to improve their durability for use but also to ensure that bioplastic objects in museum collections are protected from degradation (Pye, 2016). This highlights an important aspect of sustainability for some items, namely balancing the eco-friendliness of materials with their preservation needs. As you...
Should we read John Locke today?
Society, Politics & Law

Should we read John Locke today?

...Second Treatise of Government," in Two Treatises of Government, ed. Peter Laslett (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2003 [1689]). US Declaration of Independence, 1776. Article 3 of the United Nations Declaration of Human Rights of 1948. Find out more Slavery Law and Power, is a research database set up by Holly Brewer with informative chapters on this broad area....
Deconstructing the Moors: black presence in the United Kingdom before and during the Tudor period
History & The Arts

Deconstructing the Moors: black presence in the United Kingdom before and during the Tudor period

...research on the contributions of Black people before and during the Tudor period. Transcript Encounters with historical events in genres that function as discursive actions within particular social, political and cultural frameworks influence how people engage with the past in which identities are created and sustained. Historical knowledge has the power to influence how...
The Scottish Women’s Herring Strike in Great Yarmouth in the 1930s and 1940s
Society, Politics & Law

The Scottish Women’s Herring Strike in Great Yarmouth in the 1930s and 1940s

...research/online-exhibitions/the-women-of-scotland/women-s-work/ (Accessed 4/1/23). Norwich and District Trades Council (2021) The Herring lassies’ Strike Norwich and District Trades Council Facebook (Accessed 4/1/23) Scottish Fish Museum (2022) The Herring Boom https://www.scotfishmuseum.org/the-herring-boom.php (Accessed 17/9/22). Unsworth, C. (2013). The British...
A question of ethics: right or wrong?
Health, Sports & Psychology

A question of ethics: right or wrong?

...children (and older athletes), alongside the presence of the coach, develop and test the moral dimensions of their evolving characters’. To help practitioners to work within these ethical and moral standards, organisations articulate codes of conduct to ensure that everyone knows what is expected...A question of ethics: right or wrong?: 2 Adhering to the code - Sport...
Talking about the menopause: symptoms, support and the role of exercise
Health, Sports & Psychology

Talking about the menopause: symptoms, support and the role of exercise

...children to being no longer capable of becoming pregnant (Northrup, 2012). This occurs as the levels of hormones gradually change, with a substantial fall over time in the production of oestrogen. For some people, this process might last for perhaps 4–5 years, while for others, it can take up to 12–13 years (Newson, 2019; Northrup, 2012). The following figure shows...
Cyflwyniad i efelychu digidol ym maes gofal iechyd
Health, Sports & Psychology

Cyflwyniad i efelychu digidol ym maes gofal iechyd

...research study’, JMIR Medical Education, [ar-lein]. Ar gael yn: https://www.jmir.org/2013/2/e18/ (Cyrchwyd: 3 Mehefin 2025). Association for Simulated Practice in Healthcare (ASPiH) (2023) The ASPiH Standards – 2023: guiding simulation-based practice in health and care, [ar-lein]. Ar gael yn :
Understanding economic inequality
Society, Politics & Law

Understanding economic inequality

...centred on measures of the spread of incomes across people. One approach often used by economists to consider the spread of incomes is the use of percentiles, deciles or quintiles to divide the population into groups of hundreds, tenths, fifths, respectively in order of income. The income share of each group can then be compared. Box 1 Percentiles, deciles and quintiles...
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