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What does it mean to be a South Asian young adult carer?
Health, Sports & Psychology

What does it mean to be a South Asian young adult carer?

...families? This article shares the experiences of 16–24 year olds in England who provide unpaid care to relatives, balancing cultural expectations, education and their own wellbeing...اس مضمون کو اردو آڈیو ورژن میں سننے کے لیے یہاں کلک کریں (Click here for the Urdu audio version of this article). Young adult carers in England...
Inside the International Criminal Court
Society, Politics & Law

Inside the International Criminal Court

...history and structure of the International Criminal Court and asks what the future holds for international justice and cooperation between states to bring criminals to account. This material forms part of the Open University course W821 Exploring the boundaries of international law... Inside the International Criminal Court:The Court The history of the ICC and how it came...
Managing motherhood and sports participation
Health, Sports & Psychology

Managing motherhood and sports participation

...family and friends. Barriers to sports participation appear more negotiable for those women who can seek social support from partners, family, and friends. It has also been reported that women with higher socio-economic status typically receive the most support from family and friends due to having a greater social network. However, even for those women that do remain...
Britain's Fat Fight
Health, Sports & Psychology

Britain's Fat Fight

...family...With Britain now the most obese country in western Europe, Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall in his TV series Britain’s Fat Fight is on a mission: asking food producers, restaurants and the government to confront the crisis. Two-thirds of us are already overweight and there's no doubt that our poor diet and lack of exercise is slowly killing us, as well as crippling...
Joe Smith - Earth In Vision Introduction
Nature & Environment

Joe Smith - Earth In Vision Introduction

...history and environmental programme making. You could call it a natural history of natural history, and one of the things I really love about the collection is that we go all the way from Desmond Morris and David Attenborough to digital natives who are working in entirely new ways with their media. I think that we hope that a whole range of people will find this material...
The 1912 Ryedale Glove Factory Strike, Dumfries
Society, Politics & Law

The 1912 Ryedale Glove Factory Strike, Dumfries

...History Online: The National Federation of Women Workers Working Class Movement Library 2014: The Woman Worker, September 1907, Volume 1 Number 1 The Ryedale Strike, 1912 On Friday March 22nd, 1912, 150 women employed as ‘fingerers’ at Ryedale came out on strike. Though they were not union members, on Tuesday 26th, a Scottish NFWW organiser, George Dallas, arrived in...
Julie Asumu: mother, grandmother, stalwart of Manchester’s Black community, activist and care giver
Education & Development

Julie Asumu: mother, grandmother, stalwart of Manchester’s Black community, activist and care giver

...family, but I knew my step-grandfather who was a palace chief (at that time, many towns and villages were ruled by monarchs). My Father, who was only seven at the time of his mother’s re-marriage, grew up under his step-dad and he lived with him until he was over twenty years of age. Despite having the freedom to play, sing and dance, I wouldn’t describe my childhood...
St David’s Day and the role of the crowd in perceptions of Welsh musical identity
History & The Arts

St David’s Day and the role of the crowd in perceptions of Welsh musical identity

...History of Welsh Music, which will be the first major academic study of Welsh music history. Drawing together the work of twelve leading scholars, it will examine Welsh music and musical life from the earliest medieval sources through to the ‘Cool Cymru’ phenomenon and twenty-first-century Wales’ reputation as a centre for creative media production. Helen Barlow and...