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People with dementia and meaning in music
Health, Sports & Psychology

People with dementia and meaning in music

...account of the ‘memory bump’ is important - that is, people with dementia retain their clearest musical memories for music heard between the ages of 10 and 30 (Rubin et al, 1998). Music can be used to link the person’s musical preferences with their personal identity, life experiences and significant events and their overall life history (McDermott et al, 2014)....
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Managing Relationships and Work
Health, Sports & Psychology

Managing Relationships and Work

...accountable by recognising the part they play, and fulfilling their responsibilities, aspects which require a certain amount of self-knowledge and self-management. Interpersonal skills – how we interact with other people and manage our relationships – and an appreciation of psychological traits such as the following have a huge bearing on how we deal with work tasks,...
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The case of Simone Biles and perceptions of athlete mental health
Health, Sports & Psychology

The case of Simone Biles and perceptions of athlete mental health

...accounts – Simone Biles’ own profile, Fox News and CNN (American news outlets), and Bleacher Report (international news outlet specialising in sports and sports culture). A total of 87,714 user comments were collected from 29 posts covering the news and were analysed using the qualitative software, Leximancer. The findings illustrate how social media allows users to...
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How did music influence Virgina Woolf?
History & The Arts

How did music influence Virgina Woolf?

...account of a performance of Wagner’s Siegfried resists the composer’s notorious anti-Semitism, using the opera to embed more sympathetic attitudes towards Jews in the novel. In a famous letter of 1940, Woolf wrote that ‘I always think of my books as music before I write them’; recent criticism has started to explore the implications of the relationship between...
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Windrush generation latest to be stripped of their rights in the name of 'migration control'
Society, Politics & Law

Windrush generation latest to be stripped of their rights in the name of 'migration control'

...accounts after being unable to demonstrate their legal status. They have been denied NHS services. They have been detained. And it’s likely that some have been deported. After The Guardian broke the story in late 2017 of grandmother Paulette Wilson who, 50 years after she entered the UK as a child, found herself in immigration detention and facing removal to Jamaica,...
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The ageing brain: 'use it or lose it'
Health, Sports & Psychology

The ageing brain: 'use it or lose it'

...For a more comprehensive account on ‘the Ageing Brain’, the biomedical reasons to ageing and reversible causes to memory loss, please do come to our ‘Ageing Well Public Talk Series’ – see plan for academic year 2020/2021 and/or see Talk 2. Ageing Brain within the Ageing Well Public Talk Series available via ORDO Collections or OpenLearn Create free course....
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Reflections on the Northern Ireland Economy 25 years after the Good Friday Agreement
Society, Politics & Law

Reflections on the Northern Ireland Economy 25 years after the Good Friday Agreement

...accountability and participation benefits of devolution for decision-making and co-ordinating collective policy action. The important point is that the devolving of powers tends to be create a more coherent framework for regionalised economic policy making by incorporating key local agencies and stakeholders into decision-making structures and processes. Consequently,...
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Who was Mary Magdalene?
History & The Arts

Who was Mary Magdalene?

...accounts that describe the life, death and resurrection of Jesus – and often leads the list of Jesus' female followers, who defied the idea that philosophical disciples were typically male. She is also mentioned five times in the Passion story, which includes some of her finest moments marked by sorrow. She supports Jesus when he is crucified by the Romans and mourns...
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