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The impact of COVID-19 on Black children and young people living in London
Education & Development

The impact of COVID-19 on Black children and young people living in London

...Social spaces Relationships Lessons learned during lockdown Hopes for the future The researchers are currently halfway through data collection of twenty-five participants and this project is a pilot to explore issues which are important to children and young people in a view to turn this into a larger project. The lives of Black children and young people are often...
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?

...social care and education professionals. Are you a young adult carer? Alternatively, if you are a South Asian parent of a young person, perhaps your daughter or son is a carer? What do South Asian young adult carers do? We are carrying out research with South Asian young adult carers living in England (see below). We interviewed them about what their caring roles involve....
The physical impacts of ADHD
Health, Sports & Psychology

The physical impacts of ADHD

...socially with lots of people, can be triggers. The headaches can be intense enough to be distracting and stop me from working effectively. As someone who might otherwise struggle to focus and get things done, this added layer is not only painful but also incredibly frustrating. Fatigue – there are times when the cumulative toll of trying to ‘manage my ADHD’ (or...
Climate change: transitions to sustainability
Nature & Environment

Climate change: transitions to sustainability

...social or cultural (new kinds of networks of debate and action) meanings. Discussion Comment This is how one of the authors responded to this question. When I see the word ‘globalisation’, I'm reminded of my first fairly long-distance trip from the UK. Trabzon in Eastern Turkey was a highly exotic place to me; a cultural and economic crossroads between East and West...
The 2015 Autumn Statement: First responses
Society, Politics & Law

The 2015 Autumn Statement: First responses

...social policy and housing, University of Stirling The spending review promises to unveil “the biggest affordable housebuilding programme since the 1970s with a particular focus on the creation of 400,000 "affordable homes” by 2020. As a useful comparison, research in Scotland indicates the need for a minimum of 12,000 of these over the next five years. But there is a...
The impact of online media reporting of family crimes on children
Health, Sports & Psychology

The impact of online media reporting of family crimes on children

...social behaviour and poor educational attainment (Kincaid et al., 2019). These risk factors reflect a variety of complex processes including children being separated from their parent and the disturbance this causes; financial struggles; stigma and difficulties in trying to keep in contact with the imprisoned parent (Murray & Farrington, 2008). It can be extremely...
The psychology of cybercrime
Health, Sports & Psychology

The psychology of cybercrime

...social network user. Unless I have to get in contact with someone, I don't think I'll jump on it. It's a really good means of getting in contact with everyone and keeping up with everyone and what not. But usage terms, I don't think I use it too much. JASON With a mobile phone in your hand now it's pretty much the way of communicating with everybody. I mean, I use social...
Managing virtual project teams
Money & Business

Managing virtual project teams

...social and task behaviours that can support an effective team understand a responsibility assignment matrix identify the difference in awareness between team members in a collocated team and between team members in a virtual team be aware of the approaches and techniques needed for a virtual team to be successful...Managing virtual project teams: 1 Building the team - The...