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Learning from sport burnout and overtraining Badge icon
Health, Sports & Psychology

Learning from sport burnout and overtraining

...determination theory a social problem all-consuming from a young age feel trapped in their sport the way sports are organised unidimensional athletic identity identity relies upon sporting success (adapted from DeFreese et al. (2015), Goodger et al. (2012)) Now you know the four main perspectives that researchers use to frame their work on burnout, the next question is,...
EU Referendum - Sovereignty
Society, Politics & Law

EU Referendum - Sovereignty

...determination “to lay the foundations of an ever closer union among the peoples of Europe”. For the government, it was essential to ensure a protection of UK sovereignty in some form and to be guaranteed an exemption from the very political goal of an ever closer union seemed a valuable and simple option. This amendment to the Treaty does, however, need to be agreed...
What does a Trump victory mean for Britain?
Society, Politics & Law

What does a Trump victory mean for Britain?

...determined to turn inwards. Instead of finding common purpose, the two sides of the Atlantic may find they drive themselves further apart. That would pose a quandary for a post-Brexit Britain and its leaders who campaigned for Britain to leave the EU so it could instead forge new global trading links. Trump has hinted at being open to a trade deal with a UK outside the...
Learning to swim in murky seas: Exploitation of the Electorate via Social Media
Health, Sports & Psychology

Learning to swim in murky seas: Exploitation of the Electorate via Social Media

...determined in other ways. Imagine that you go on Facebook and regularly visit football-linked pages, join football interest groups, and message your friends or update your status with footballing comments. Facebook will record this interest in football and start presenting you with more adverts that have a football theme. Similarly if you spend a lot of time on football...
The birth of (synthetic) dyeing
History & The Arts

The birth of (synthetic) dyeing

...determining the structures of natural dyes that could then be synthesised in the laboratory, and subsequently manufactured on an industrial scale. Alizarin and Indigo Like many ‘natural’ dyes, alizarin and indigo are simple molecules, but until 1868 their chemical structures were completely unknown. In that year, alizarin was shown chemically to be derived from the...
Reading: re-asserting the potency of the personal
Education & Development

Reading: re-asserting the potency of the personal

...determine the opportunities currently on offer for children to read for pleasure and the space made available to talk about their choices with one another and with teachers. Most found that adults were the ones controlling the reading on offer to children. In particular, talk about texts was confined to the official literacy curriculum, to guided and shared reading where...
Herbal medicine
Health, Sports & Psychology

Herbal medicine

...determine which, of the dozens of complex organic compounds of which they are composed, were the "active constituents". The thinking was along the lines of "why give a patient a herb tea with an indeterminate amount of active ingredients, when it is possible to administer a small white pill with precisely measured amounts?" And so drugs such as digoxin, derived originally...
How to make the most out of our visit to the Great Outdoors: walking with The Parks Trust and staying mindful
Health, Sports & Psychology

How to make the most out of our visit to the Great Outdoors: walking with The Parks Trust and staying mindful

...determine how we might make accessing the outdoors easier. The Parks Trust have been awarded £3.1m from the National Lottery Heritage Fund and the National Lottery Community Fund to increase awareness of and access to the heritage of Great Linford Manor Park in Milton Keynes. We want to bring the park to the local community so that they feel engaged, inspired and proud...