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What LGBTQ+ Relationships Can Teach Us About Love
Health, Sports & Psychology

What LGBTQ+ Relationships Can Teach Us About Love

...profile, different genders.] Lesson 2: Celebrate your sexuality LGBTQ+ people have faced centuries of prejudice – and still face it today, even from friends, family and work colleagues. Yet, the fight for equality has pushed LGBTQ+ communities to truly celebrate their sexuality and gender, take pride in it and explore what it really means – something heterosexual or...
Supporting and developing resilience in social work
Health, Sports & Psychology

Supporting and developing resilience in social work

...et al., 2007; Collins, 2008). If social work is such a stressful occupation, what helps social workers to survive, and even thrive? This is a question which researchers have been keen to explore. According to Beddoe et al. (2013, p. 102), research indicates that resiliency is supported by: factors that reside within individuals factors that reside in the organisational...
Developing reading for pleasure in the classroom with student and early career teachers
Education & Development

Developing reading for pleasure in the classroom with student and early career teachers

...et al., 2024). Barriers from individual teacher reader identities and varied school experiences may also need to be addressed (Hendry, 2022). Supporting new teachers begins by investigating their starting points in the knowledge of texts as well as their expectations of RfP pedagogy. Participants considered how they currently get to know new teachers as readers and...
What does it mean to be trauma informed in practice?
Society, Politics & Law

What does it mean to be trauma informed in practice?

...et al., 2017, p. 27). An effective TI organisation must have embedded values of physical and emotional safety, trust, choice, collaboration and empowerment (Fallot and Harris, 2009). Workforce trauma must be ‘recognised and supported, whether that stems from childhood adversity, adult trauma, or directly or indirectly through work’ (Gillespie-Smith et al., 2018, p....
Planning a better future
Education & Development

Planning a better future

...profiles – for example, LinkedIn and Facebook. Planning a better future is made up of three sections. In Section 1, you will consider how you got here, reflecting on your roles in life, your confidence in those roles, and positive and negative experiences you've had; and realising your strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, and threats. Section 2 will look at where you...
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The meaning of home in later life
Health, Sports & Psychology

The meaning of home in later life

...et al (2014) shows how people aged 60 to 90 yrs experience problems with bending, reaching, reading dials and having a place to sit. This makes this hub of the home problematic. Some continually adapt their housing to make it more ‘homely’ but this depends on resources, skills and recognition of ageing needs by the retail market. Second, where an older person’s...
How can education contribute to sustainability?
Education & Development

How can education contribute to sustainability?

...et al., 2019). They showed how they could apply frameworks for thinking about Education for Sustainable Development (ESD), originally written for Higher Education settings paper (Warwick, 2016; Winter et al., 2015), to a wide range of their own school-age settings. The consensus was: EfS needs to become part of an intended ‘hidden’ curriculum, not a bolt-on EfS should...
Victory through resilience: how England Vitality Roses adapted to setbacks
Health, Sports & Psychology

Victory through resilience: how England Vitality Roses adapted to setbacks

...et al., 2013). Essentially, this involves the management, adjustment, and modification of one’s thoughts, actions, and affect, respectively (Holliman et al., 2021). Adaptability and resilience are closely connected in sports because both help athletes and teams overcome challenges and perform under pressure. In such a fast-paced game every match presents a choice –...