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What Commercial Pilots can learn from Sports Psychology
Health, Sports & Psychology

What Commercial Pilots can learn from Sports Psychology

...et al., 2021). A combination of techniques (known collectively as psychological skills training) that are often drawn on by sports psychologists may help commercial pilots maintain - or improve - their performance. Training to excel in any sport and learning to become a pilot both require copious amounts of time, effort, focus, and motivation. International travel is an...
Disseminating across the margins: bridging communities and academia through a Black feminist lens
Education & Development

Disseminating across the margins: bridging communities and academia through a Black feminist lens

...et al., 2020). Effective research dissemination is critical then, particularly when viewed through the lens of Black feminist theory, as it emphasises the role of research participants as both subjects and agents of knowledge creation (Collins, 2000). Bridging the gap between discourse and practice In the Mothering at the Margins study, we aim to use our positions to not...
5 reasons why exercising outdoors is great for people who have dementia
Health, Sports & Psychology

5 reasons why exercising outdoors is great for people who have dementia

...et al, 2009). Such improvements might directly enable the person with dementia to become mobile and carry out day-to-day activities including self-care independently or with little assistance. 2. Exercise is stimulation – outdoor & company is the best [senior man walking on the beach] When living with dementia, we need as much stimulation as possible. Outdoor exercise...
Basic science: understanding experiments
Science, Maths & Technology

Basic science: understanding experiments

...axes on a graph are your reference lines; they carry the scale of your graph and help you locate where to plot each piece of data. They also tell you what variables your graph is illustrating a relationship between. Line graphs are commonly used to show data that change over a period of time. A simple line graph is drawn with two axes: an x-axis that is drawn left to...
Introducing Climate Psychology: facing the climate crisis
Health, Sports & Psychology

Introducing Climate Psychology: facing the climate crisis

...et al., 2023). Participants in the research were asked to do the following task, which you should also try out. Take five minutes to ‘free-write’ on the subject of your relationship to a familiar place (make it an outdoor place, from the past or present). A free-write means writing spontaneously with minimum hesitation or revision. Now reflect on the following three...
Understanding antibiotic resistance Badge icon
Science, Maths & Technology

Understanding antibiotic resistance

...et al (2015) The State of the Worlds Antibiotics 2015 https://www.cddep.org/publications/state_worlds_antibiotics_2015/ Figure 5 from Gell=band, H, et al (2015) The State of the Worlds Antibiotics 2015 https://www.cddep.org/publications/state_worlds_antibiotics_2015/ Audio-visual Video 2 BBC Learning Zone © BBC Video 4 What is a superbug?, Pain, Pus and Poison, episode 2...
Developing high trust work relationships
Money & Business

Developing high trust work relationships

...et al., 1995) …trust is both the specific expectation that another’s actions will be beneficial rather than detrimental and the generalized ability to take for granted, to take under trust, a vast array of features of the social order. (Douglad Creed and Miles, 1996, p. 17) From these definitions of trust we can see a number of different issues emerge. Each definition...
Exploring depression
Science, Maths & Technology

Exploring depression

...et al., 2015). The 12-month prevalence of depression in Europe is 6.9% (Bschor et al., 2014). Anxiety disorders can precede depression, and symptoms can overlap, with anxiety often co-existing with depression. The course of illness can be episodic with periods of ill health and recovery. More than half of depressed patients recover within six months, but in around 15% of...
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