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Why is it so difficult for Muslim women to play sport?
Health, Sports & Psychology

Why is it so difficult for Muslim women to play sport?

...children did: swim, bike, roller skate and run. As it happens, we did all of that, sometimes in difficult circumstances, but we pushed through. As Muslims we are told to look after both our spiritual side as well as our physical side, demonstrated by the month of Ramadan, in which Muslims fast for 30 days to increase their nearness to Allah as well as improve overall...
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Inclusive Leadership: Collaborating for professional development
Education & Development

Inclusive Leadership: Collaborating for professional development

...research for inclusive education (2013), the knowledge base is limited and fragmented because of the different ways in which people conceptualise inclusive education and teacher learning. ‘The act of dismantling exclusion occurs in dynamic, politically charged, and historically contingent contexts. The degree of success of inclusive education, and how success is...
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Working at Wimbledon: a day in the life of a sport rehab therapist
Health, Sports & Psychology

Working at Wimbledon: a day in the life of a sport rehab therapist

...Centre Court at Wimbledon.] What does your normal working day look like?You normally find out the day before what players want from you. Depending on who's on court when, the players that are playing the following day get priority for that day in terms of order of play. Typically, you start at 7am with the first player who may want some pre-treatment, such as taping,...
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What pressures are young men feeling?
Education & Development

What pressures are young men feeling?

...research...[Two young men on a balcony] A rigid construct of how “real” men are supposed to behave leaves many feeling trapped, new research we carried out suggests. [The Conversation] While most support gender equality, the young men in the UK, US and Mexico reported feeling pushed to live in the “man box”. They feel pressure to act tough, hide weakness and...
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So you've written your novel, what now?
History & The Arts

So you've written your novel, what now?

...Research agencies and make a targeted approach. Some agents have areas of expertise – they only represent children’s fiction, for example, or non-fiction. Some agents might have a broader remit but exclude certain genres such as, for example, science fiction. It’s obviously no good sending your epic fantasy trilogy to an agent who doesn’t represent science fiction...
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Understanding Alice
History & The Arts

Understanding Alice

...children. In Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland, however, the quality of the word-games and puzzles is of an extremely high order. [The Game of Logic] 'The Game of Logic' book by Lewis Carroll 1887 Charles Dodgson was fascinated by all kinds of puzzles and word-play, and he encouraged his young friends to share this interest through personalised games and puzzles:...
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Why Glasgow’s ‘Bolshevist Uprising’ in 1919 wasn’t quite the red threat to UK many believed
History & The Arts

Why Glasgow’s ‘Bolshevist Uprising’ in 1919 wasn’t quite the red threat to UK many believed

...centres of weapons manufacturing for British forces. Across Clydeside and elsewhere, workers protested poor conditions again and again during the war years, striking in mines, factories and shipyards. They wanted the working week to be cut from a 54-hour average to 40 hours, and fought attempts by employers to drive down wages and roll back hard-won improvements to...
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Article 15 mins
Solving the perplexing mathematicians' problem of the spectre
Science, Maths & Technology

Solving the perplexing mathematicians' problem of the spectre

...centre. Aperiodic tiles are also used in the study of material with naturally aperiodic structure, known as quasicrystals. Quasicrystals have unique material properties and applications are being investigated. But since the discovery of Penrose’s two tile sets, mathematicians have wondered, is it possible to create an aperiodic set of tiles consisting of just one tile...
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Article 5 mins