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Frequently asked questions about COVID-19 relating to cancer
Science, Maths & Technology

Frequently asked questions about COVID-19 relating to cancer

...research teams will be refocused to working on COVID-19 prevention and treatment. However, if someone is in a clinical trial, their healthcare team will continue to support and monitor them. If cancer patients have any concerns or questions about the clinical trial they are enrolled in, they are advised to speak to their healthcare team for further clarification. Will...
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Being an Olympic Parent: the family behind the athlete
Health, Sports & Psychology

Being an Olympic Parent: the family behind the athlete

...children to the sport. For example, GB Downhill skier Chemmy Alcott began skiing at only 18months old with her first race aged 3 years! Likewise the summer athletics camp Jessica Ennis-Hill’s parents’ saw as ‘cheap childcare’ proved instrumental in her athletic development, as did Andy Murray’s frequent visits to the Tennis club where mum, Judy, coached. As well...
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Reading: re-asserting the potency of the personal
Education & Development

Reading: re-asserting the potency of the personal

...children’s intrinsic motivation as readers can build reciprocal communities of readers...In countries where the language of schooling predominantly focuses on measurable and often oversimplified notions of attainment, children can come to be viewed and discussed in relation to their current standards of performance, rather than as unique individuals. In such...
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Methods in Motion: Remaking self-help
Society, Politics & Law

Methods in Motion: Remaking self-help

...centre of the diagram, there’s a kind of research method involved in the creation of the self-help materials themselves: perhaps more akin to the research conducted by people in the humanities, particularly in creative writing. I’m constantly engaged in a dialogue with people about what they’d find most useful, and what formats would be most accessible to diverse...
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What are premature babies telling us about antibiotic resistance?
Health, Sports & Psychology

What are premature babies telling us about antibiotic resistance?

...children born before full-term shows the superbug problem is a growing threat...A new study of gut bacteria in premature infants reveals the vast scope of the problem of antibiotic resistance and gives new insight into the extreme vulnerability of these young patients, according to researchers. The gut microbiome has emerged in recent years as a vital player in human...
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Black History Month 2022 talks
Education & Development

Black History Month 2022 talks

...children about race and why it’s important that we do Mel Green’s presentation explores how children and young people learn about constructions of race and racism from early socialisation. She discusses ways that adults can approach racial dialogues with young people and how this will benefit children and their families in the long term. Transcript Do Black lives...
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SEND crisis: overdiagnosis - fact or fiction?
Education & Development

SEND crisis: overdiagnosis - fact or fiction?

...children outstripping the resources available. There have been recent suggestions by high profile figures that an overdiagnosis of specific learning difficulties and neurodiversity is to blame. However, the data tells us a different story; in fact, there is a problem with underdiagnosis instead. Is a diagnosis necessary? While a child in the UK doesn’t need a formal...
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Managing motherhood and sports participation
Health, Sports & Psychology

Managing motherhood and sports participation

...research interests but also by our personal situations as sportspeople and full-time working mothers...[woman with child doing yoga pose] With 42% of women not active enough for good health, the topic of female sports participation is of growing social, political and cultural importance. This concern is reflected in the funding and interventions run by public health...
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