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Social mobility isn’t just about 18-year-olds: adults need life chances too
Society, Politics & Law

Social mobility isn’t just about 18-year-olds: adults need life chances too

...adults who missed out at 18 and aspire for a second chance while working and learners with low or alternative entry qualifications, to poorer learners in low-status jobs – often women who are seeking a transformative life chance to benefit their families. Their needs cannot be met by the inflexibilities inherent in mainstream full-time higher education. If universities...
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Let’s not talk about dying: Five reasons why people avoid planning for their end-of-life care
Health, Sports & Psychology

Let’s not talk about dying: Five reasons why people avoid planning for their end-of-life care

...care plans or may avoid planning for end-of-life care. Dr Erica Borgstrom tells us why...“Advance care plans….what is that?” Do you know what that is? Don’t worry if not – a lot of the people I’ve spoken to during my research about their health and future care didn’t know what they were either. Advance care planning (or anticipatory care planning as......
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Carers, COVID-19 and Physical Activity: The Research
Health, Sports & Psychology

Carers, COVID-19 and Physical Activity: The Research

...caring duties. The COVID-19 outbreak and the following period of self-isolation made it much harder for carers to get any respite. This is particularly true in relation to carers who are struggling to manage increasingly challenging behaviours of those for whom they care (often including complex mental health needs) and who have less access to normal coping mechanisms...
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Older carers, COVID-19 and physical activity
Health, Sports & Psychology

Older carers, COVID-19 and physical activity

...adults aged 65 years and over provide unpaid care - how much has this increased since the corona virus outbreak? This article explores...“Each day elderly care givers are faced with numerous challenges; it is likely that the period of coronavirus lockdown will have impacted upon these further.” This article focusses on older carers within a wider research study...
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For older people, the storms might abate but the harm persists
Health, Sports & Psychology

For older people, the storms might abate but the harm persists

...care – feeding people, giving medications, turning them every two hours and cleaning them up. One older man had severe cerebral palsy but was fully alert. He had been lying in a dirty diaper for hours, on a pallet on the floor in a crowded, loud, bright room. I knelt down to tell him I’d be right back to clean him up, but he told me that others needed help more than...
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Young children and the climate crisis
Education & Development

Young children and the climate crisis

...care more about local wildlife than the current one. I’m an early years practitioner and woodland enthusiast and I confess that there have been times when putting a plastic bottle into an overflowing recycling bin has felt insignificant in the face of the climate emergency. Even being in the woods can be troubling. Critics highlight the way that forest school can become...
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The gift of being a foster carer
Health, Sports & Psychology

The gift of being a foster carer

...care for children and adults for a variety of reasons and for varying periods of time. The contribution foster carers make and impact they have is transformational and the biggest impact of all is making a difference in a child or adult’s life. We know times are changing with many challenges for individuals, families, communities, and society in general. Every one of us...
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Research on young people with melanoma
Health, Sports & Psychology

Research on young people with melanoma

...Care courses and qualifications. The lives of young people matter; their experiences matter; their futures matter and their significant others matter. Below are two short podcasts. The first one explores challenges in ethical approval for the Teenage and Young Adult (TYA) with cancer project delivered to you by Professor Susanne Cruickshank, who is the Strategic Lead for...
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