3,209 search results
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?

...University's Sport and Fitness courses and qualifications. As we look forward to enjoying the action of the 2023 World Cup there is a growing awareness that there are significant differences in how women’s and men’s bodies respond in sport. In particular, after ACL injuries to England players Beth Mead and Leah Williamson, we are aware that footballers in the...
View article Sub-concussions in women’s football: what can be done to protect the brains of footballers?
Article 10 hrs
How radical was Martin Luther King?
History & The Arts

How radical was Martin Luther King?

...University in 1957, he professed his belief that “there is in the white South more open-minded moderates than appears on the surface.” He urged them to lead the region through its necessary transition to equal treatment for black citizens. He reassured all that the aim of the movement was not to “defeat or humiliate the white man, but to win his friendship and...
View article How radical was Martin Luther King?
Article 5 mins
Thrill seeking and risk taking - what has made extreme sports into a worldwide phenomenon?
Health, Sports & Psychology

Thrill seeking and risk taking - what has made extreme sports into a worldwide phenomenon?

...University's Sport and Fitness courses and qualifications. Over the last 50 years the interest in extreme sports has increased significantly, with risk-taking behaviour in sport being used to describe engagement in high-risk leisure activities such as skiing and skydiving which tend to be characterised as activities that involve hazards (Jones et al, 2015). These are no...
View article Thrill seeking and risk taking - what has made extreme sports into a worldwide phenomenon?
Article 5 mins
Traditional Ecological Knowledges: Learning from the past to inform the future
Nature & Environment

Traditional Ecological Knowledges: Learning from the past to inform the future

...knowledge can learn from each other’ EMBO Reports, 7(5): pp. 463–466. Available at: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1479546/ (Accessed: 21 October 202). Stiegler, C. D. (2018) Traditional Ecological Knowledge: Learning from Indigenous Practices for Environmental Sustainability. Edited by M. K. Nelson and D. Shilling. New York: Cambridge University Press.....
View article Traditional Ecological Knowledges: Learning from the past to inform the future
Article 10 mins
Is America better than this?
Society, Politics & Law

Is America better than this?

...universe bends towards justice. But let’s not forget that in Mississippi and Alabama, the holiday commemorates Martin Luther King and Robert E. Lee, the Confederate general who fought to retain slavery. Because commemorating sedition is as American as apple pie. Trump’s attempt to overturn the election is just the sharp end of generations of voter suppression that...
View article Is America better than this?
Article 10 mins
'Bad Apples' or Organisational Cultures?
Education & Development

'Bad Apples' or Organisational Cultures?

...University Press. Davis, R. (2016) ‘Police Reform vs. Policing Reform’, Community Policing Dispatch (8). Available at: https://cops.usdoj.gov/html/dispatch/08-2016/police_reform.asp (Accessed 11 February 2021). Ladson-Billings, G. (2006) ‘From achievement gap to education debt: Understanding achievement in U.S. schools’, Educational Researcher, 35(7), pp. 3–12....
View article 'Bad Apples' or Organisational Cultures?
Article 10 mins
'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

...University's Social Sciences courses and qualifications. 1969 was the year that a human first landed on the moon. It was also the year that I first saw a Black person on the telly. Both events were equally stellar for me. I was allowed to stay up late, even though it was a school night (I was only seven), to watch the grainy but miraculous pictures on our small black and...
View article 'A Rose By Any Other Name...': The Importance of Words when it comes to Race
Article 10 mins
Witches in popular culture
History & The Arts

Witches in popular culture

...University's History courses and qualifications [A memorial plaque to the Devon Witches, the last women to be executed for "witchcraft" in England] A memorial to the last women to be killed for 'witchcraft' in the UK - but 300 years later, 'witch' is still a term of abuse thrown at women You would have thought that Western society might have grown out of the habit of...
View video Witches in popular culture
Video 5 mins