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Victory through resilience: how England Vitality Roses adapted to setbacks
Health, Sports & Psychology

Victory through resilience: how England Vitality Roses adapted to setbacks

...changed or changing situations; the ability to modify or adjust one’s behaviour in meeting difference circumstances or different people. Furthermore, according to the ‘Tripartite model’, adaptability also refers to an individual’s cognitive, behavioural, and emotional regulation (or adjustment) in situations of change, novelty, and uncertainty (Martin, 2017;...
Im Gespräch mit Jannis Androutsopoulos
Languages

Im Gespräch mit Jannis Androutsopoulos

...and German at Hamburg University talks about his research projects and focus, including multilingual networks in social media, how written communication is changing in the younger generation and the field of digital journalism, in particular how journalists nowadays interact with media users. This recording is in German, suitable for learners at CEFR Level B2 or above....
Introducing healthcare improvement
Health, Sports & Psychology

Introducing healthcare improvement

...changes that will lead to better patient outcomes (health), better system performance (care) and better professional development (learning…) (Batalden & Davidoff, 2007, p.2) Activity 1 This definition of quality improvement identifies three areas that may result in positive change after an improvement intervention: patient outcomes (health) system performance (care)...
Six ways Sajid Javid can make British migration policy more humane
Society, Politics & Law

Six ways Sajid Javid can make British migration policy more humane

...changes to what access they have to services within those communities would not be about migration control. It would be about displacement. 2. Human rights must be for everyone In the UK today, many human rights have become dependent upon documentation and status and this has mostly become socially acceptable. In the latest review of the UK by the UN Human Rights Council,...
Read this before you fall for a personalised book
History & The Arts

Read this before you fall for a personalised book

...changing the story character’s name or gender), other customisations (such as changing the character’s skin, hair and eye colour) are in the pricier range. In a recent study, personalised books, as opposed to their non-personalised equivalents, did not help children understand the moral of a story or apply it to their own lives. Personalised books could serve...
30 years of SME research highlights impact of the ‘digital revolution’
Money & Business

30 years of SME research highlights impact of the ‘digital revolution’

...changes affecting SMEs in the past 30 years...Founded in 1984, the Quarterly Survey of Small Business in Britain is the longest continuing report focused entirely on small- and medium-sized businesses in Britain The 30th Anniversary Special Issue examines the history of the survey and highlights key changes affecting SMEs over the last three decades, including the...
Haymaking is critical to our heritage meadows, but is later really better?
Nature & Environment

Haymaking is critical to our heritage meadows, but is later really better?

...changes in the nutritional content of hay can help conserve the UK's precious species-rich floodplain meadows... [farmers in a field haymaking in the early 1900s] Haymaking in the early 1900s, newspaper cutting from my grandmother's scrapbooks. [farmers on a tractor haymaking during the 1950s post-war agricultural revolution] Haymaking during the 1950s post-war...
The history of surfing
Health, Sports & Psychology

The history of surfing

...changed to turn it into a global phenomenon?...Surfing legend begins with Polynesian and particularly Hawaiian prehistory, when surfing was ‘the sport of kings’ as well as commoners. Early Hawaiian surfing was on longboards carved from island trees and the action of surfing was similar to stand up paddle surfing, recently rediscovered by Britain’s surfing community....