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...health...Ricky Hatton’s death has reignited an all-too-familiar conversation about mental health in sport. Hatton had spoken openly about his long battle with depression, as well as the drug and alcohol addiction that began after his 2007 defeat to Floyd Mayweather. Research shows that how a boxer thinks – their beliefs about success, identity and failure – can...

...public parks are an amazing resource for health and wellbeing and that they need to be enjoyed by all, free of direct charge. In doing so, they facilitate equitable socio-economic access to greenspace. Residents of Milton Keynes and the UK are lucky to have many, many greenspaces on their doorsteps. Lots of towns have local nature reserves, community gardens or even...

...health issues with your peers? Dr Jonathan Leach and Dr Mathijs Lucassen set out six ways of getting the support you need...‘Sharing experiences helped me to understand what I was going through and how to make sense of it’ (Service user quoted in Leach, 2015) Whilst good relationships with other people can both support good mental health and be a source of help at...

...Health and Social Care courses and qualifications. The lives of young people matter; their experiences matter; their futures matter and their significant others matter. Below are two short podcasts. The first one explores challenges in ethical approval for the Teenage and Young Adult (TYA) with cancer project delivered to you by Professor Susanne Cruickshank, who is the...