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Candles and campfires: creativity and the menopause transition
Health, Sports & Psychology

Candles and campfires: creativity and the menopause transition

...de-escalation and accessible activities that could help them find self-expression, comfort, and that did not feel too overwhelming or demanding. Arts, talking, nature, sound, and low light – candles and campfires – seemed soothing and releasing of our creative and symbolic efforts. So, my key reflections for International Menopause awareness day are: Take time for...
What is the Sport and Fitness Hub?
Health, Sports & Psychology

What is the Sport and Fitness Hub?

...de France during the 2024 Olympics in ParisShow descriptionA photograph of a stadium with a crowd of people outside it. What are the different resources and how long do they take to study? The resources vary, from articles that might take as little as five minutes to read, up to badged courses that take up to 24 hours to study. When you select a resource it will tell you...
Impossible Peace 2: Where have all the leaders gone?
OpenLearn Ireland

Impossible Peace 2: Where have all the leaders gone?

...de Chastelain who ignored the writing on the wall of ‘not a bullet - not an ounce’, and who with colleagues made significant progress in taking many guns out of Irish politics. George Mitchell, Nancy Soderberg, Martha Pope and the arms inspectors Martti Ahtisaari and Cyril Ramaphosa are others who come to mind. We learned from South Africa and the Basque Country and...
Rastafari in Israel
History & The Arts

Rastafari in Israel

...de-essentialising Rastafari, and over the next year or so I will be conducting fieldwork in Rome and London with different Rasta communities and groups. I see my approach as one that focuses on religion in motion, and it is an approach I began to develop when I decided to investigate Rastafari in Israel for my Master’s Thesis. In March 2014, I conducted two weeks of...
Turning rebellion into money: The upstarts who sell out
Money & Business

Turning rebellion into money: The upstarts who sell out

...class products but stay small and local because you’ve only got one pair of hands. Or you can buy your company back from the multinational so that it’s employee-owned, as the folks at howies did. And if you really have to, you can burn the money you make (or could make) from punk. Sometimes rebellion can’t be sold. This article was originally published on The...
Christmas at war: 1916 - Festivities at the front
History & The Arts

Christmas at war: 1916 - Festivities at the front

...class London "hall". Fresh scenery and elaborate costumes have been made prepared specially for this Christmas entertainment, written and produced by professionals. Some of the songs should be known beyond the armies, and one, at least, is to receive the popularity it deserves at a London theatre in the near future. This Christmas production will be given nightly in a...
Stuck in the middle of a pandemic: are international students migrants?
Society, Politics & Law

Stuck in the middle of a pandemic: are international students migrants?

...classes who have long borne the brunt of the cost of international study may well be diminished; moreover, where and when each country emerges from this pandemic is also unclear. We will be left with very uneven geographies of international student flows. The imaginations of post-COVID-19 futures must not only hold open the doors for students, but should also shine the...
Is the 2020 New Deal a Green New Deal?
Nature & Environment

Is the 2020 New Deal a Green New Deal?

...classed as ‘green’ using current economic thinking. For example, the inclusion of tree planting (although this was merely a repeat of a pre-COVID promise), funding for cleaner technology and home insulation to reduce emissions. These elements, of both nature conservation and low-carbon energy technologies, can be argued to have the potential to achieve green growth by...