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Physical activity: a family affair
Health, Sports & Psychology

Physical activity: a family affair

...et al., 1983) to parental involvement in children’s sporting experience understand how gender and parental gender stereotypes may affect parents’ support of children’s participation in sport...Physical activity: a family affair: 1 What is the modern-day family unit? - There have been many changes in the way that families function in recent years, in particular to...
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Level 3: Advanced 15 hrs
Engaging with children and young people
Money & Business

Engaging with children and young people

...et al., 2017) found that while engaging with children and young people might be difficult those difficulties should not be overstated. A crucial step for anyone working with children and young people is to go beyond standardised frameworks and recognise that each child has individual needs and comes from their own specific context with particular challenges. By taking...
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Level 1: Introductory 4 hrs
Golden Globe Ocean Race: Antarctic ice cliff instability and sea-level predictions
Nature & Environment

Golden Globe Ocean Race: Antarctic ice cliff instability and sea-level predictions

...et al., 2013) compiled from different observations with labels of important locations. The proposed new mechanism is called Marine Ice Cliff Instability (MICI), not to be confused with the established Marine Ice Sheet Instability (MISI) which are both positive feedback loops (science slang for a self-sustained process: if the result is undesired, as in this case, you can...
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Article 10 mins
What's in your toolbox?
Health, Sports & Psychology

What's in your toolbox?

...et al., 2010). Definitions by therapists working on increasing psychological flexibility define it as, ‘the ability to fully contact the present moment and the thoughts and feelings it contains without needless defence ... persisting or changing behaviour in the pursuit of goals and values (Hayes et al., 2006, p. 9). We can think of psychological flexibility using the...
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Article 10 mins
Addressing health inequalities in greenspaces to age well: Part I socio-economic and transport access inequalities
Health, Sports & Psychology

Addressing health inequalities in greenspaces to age well: Part I socio-economic and transport access inequalities

...et al. 2023), and the UK Government has now embedded awareness and care for nature into our school curriculum. Due to modern lifestyles, we have a lack of exercise in our daily routine and are therefore becoming increasingly sedentary. This leads to various health issues that are becoming more frequent, including obesity, Type 2 Diabetes, some types of cancer and social...
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Article 5 mins
Life after sport: giving back
Health, Sports & Psychology

Life after sport: giving back

...et al., 2018). For an athlete who has a strong athletic identity (i.e., someone who views themself predominantly as an athlete) the prospect of developing a new identity outside of the familiar ‘competitive athlete’ role after retirement can be daunting, but as we will discuss in this article, athletes hold a range of transferable skills that can make negotiating a...
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Article 5 mins
Fit for office - the dark triad and selection of MPs
Society, Politics & Law

Fit for office - the dark triad and selection of MPs

...et there...[Westminster freezing over] Brexit so far casts doubt on the functioning of the democratic parliamentary process and its ability to provide fair representation and protection of the interests of the British public. A central part in addressing this is the question whether the choice of parliamentary candidates and MPs is fit for purpose. Considering a trust...
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Article 10 mins
A brief history of communication: hieroglyphics to emojis
Languages

A brief history of communication: hieroglyphics to emojis

...style of writing than used to be the case. In this way emojis are an example of the way that human communication adapts to the contexts and technologies with which it’s used – a process which has been happening from the very beginnings of human culture...A brief history of communication: hieroglyphics to emojis: 4 The birth of writing - Language first evolved in...
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Level 1: Introductory 5 hrs