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What does the anatomy of World records reveal?
Health, Sports & Psychology

What does the anatomy of World records reveal?

...social-cultural roots especially when it comes to drugs and current debates about more fluid gender definitions. Whatever one's anatomy or physiology it now appears some 1980s World records appear to be unreachable, particularly in shorter women’s athletics track events. Guess how many times, in total across events, the 100m, 200m, 400m and 800m World record has been...
Club, Country, Continent: Juggling fan identities at Euro 2020
Health, Sports & Psychology

Club, Country, Continent: Juggling fan identities at Euro 2020

...social and political fragmentation of the British nation. Recently, more powers have been devolved to Scotland, Northern Ireland and Wales and, following the UK formally leaving the European Union in January 2020, ‘Brexit’ has led to even more fragmentation of the British national project. With both Scotland and Wales having also qualified for Euro 2020 alongside...
Will more money for the NHS deliver for midwife services?
Health, Sports & Psychology

Will more money for the NHS deliver for midwife services?

...social care, the ability to manage demand and to deliver the integration between local government and the NHS that is central to the transformation of healthcare is being further undermined. The TUC-led All Together for the NHS campaign has spent the run up to this week’s Spending Review highlighting the various ways in which the government’s squeeze on NHS funding...
This is not a city: Milton Keynes
Society, Politics & Law

This is not a city: Milton Keynes

...social advancement. Cities market themselves and are recognised as centres of commerce, heritage, creativity and other specialisms. Think of Edinburgh and cultural events such as the Fringe, or think of London and its stock markets. Being a city is to be elevated to a greater level of national significance. Throughout much of history, the city has been considered a space...
A gift of life at the end of life
Health, Sports & Psychology

A gift of life at the end of life

...Social Care courses. There are currently around 7,000 people on the UK transplant waiting lists and over 420 people died waiting for a transplant last year (2021). The Organ donation law in parts of the UK has recently changed to an ‘opt out’ system. This should increase the numbers of potential organs available for transplant and help save the lives of people...
Banking crimes without end
Society, Politics & Law

Banking crimes without end

...affect millions of people in ways that are diffuse. They generate a series of forms of victimisation and social harms. And such crimes and harms look set to continue to proliferate as the state, certainly in the UK, creates its own condition of impotence, further empowering private capital, not least pre-eminent finance capital, to construct its own rules of engagement....
Home education for children with special educational needs
Education & Development

Home education for children with special educational needs

...social services. Parents and schools Tensions in parent-school relationships are nothing new. Nevertheless, perhaps previous generations of parents did not have comparable access to information regarding their children’s educational rights, or to local and national groups of other families. Participants, including those who never enrolled their children at school,...
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?

...social media presence and their transition into mainstream competitive domains. For example, the Winter Olympics now includes several sports that previously only sat within the X Games programme, such as slopestyle and the big air events. We see these athletes as risk takers, even when we imagine people high-lining, snow kiting, or ice-climbing, we conceptualize them as...