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Who counts as a refugee?
Society, Politics & Law

Who counts as a refugee?

...history people have migrated from their place of birth for different reasons – for example, to seek new ways of surviving, to colonise new lands, to establish new markets for trade, or because they feared for their lives in their country of origin. Large movements of refugees around the world, as in the late twentieth century, are often linked to wider regional or...
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Holi: The festival of colours, the festival of diversity
History & The Arts

Holi: The festival of colours, the festival of diversity

...family and friends; Mother Nature also puts on a magnificent show of colours. [The Pride of India tree (Lagerstroemia speciosa) in blossom]The Pride of India tree (Lagerstroemia speciosa) in blossom. Spring is also the time of the year when the winter crops are ready for the harvest on the Indian Subcontinent: cereals such as wheat, oilseeds such as rapeseed, or legumes...
What foster carers want you to know
Health, Sports & Psychology

What foster carers want you to know

...families, whether that be for a few days, weeks, months or even years. There can be many reasons why such situations arise, for example family illness, crisis, or situations where home isn’t safe. Fostering is unique in that it combines the responsibilities of parenting with professional duties, all within the foster carer’s own home. It is a regulated role that...
Key historic LGBTQI+ figures
Education & Development

Key historic LGBTQI+ figures

...families’. In 2019, New York City announced that Marsha along with Rivera would both be 2 out of 7 new monuments being built for NYC to include more historical women. Bayard Rustin17 March 1912 – 24 August 1987 Let us be enraged about injustice, but let us not be destroyed by it. [A photograph of Bayard Rustin] Bayard Rustin was a gay African American civil rights...
Keep me walking: People living with dementia and outdoor environments
Health, Sports & Psychology

Keep me walking: People living with dementia and outdoor environments

...families and carers. This project is trying to understand what works to keep people living with dementia and their carers engaging with the walks and outdoor environments. For more information about the research study please visit www.keepmewalking.info​​ website. We know that sustained benefits come from regular engagement with activities (see more in Five Pillars of...
Social construction and social constructionism
Society, Politics & Law

Social construction and social constructionism

...family is seen as the best, and therefore if that's the case there must be particular kinds of gender relationships that gets laid on the top of that family because that family presupposes husband and wife and children living together etc. So in social constructionism then we're wanting to move through those six elements, but key as well and this is perhaps the seventh...
Freeing people caught between life and death
Health, Sports & Psychology

Freeing people caught between life and death

...family lamenting your fate. Over the years, the carers forget to turn on the TV. You’re too cold. Then you’re too hot. You’re always thirsty. The visits of your friends and family dwindle. Your partner moves on. And there’s nothing you can do about it.” Owen and I are talking on Skype. I’m sitting in London, UK, and he’s in another London three-and-a-half...
Eco-anxiety and how to cope with the Climate and Ecological Crisis
Health, Sports & Psychology

Eco-anxiety and how to cope with the Climate and Ecological Crisis

...history with approximately half of all plant and animal species at risk (WWF, 2018). UN Secretary-General António Guterres called the latest report from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) ‘a code red for humanity’ (United Nations, 2021). Hearing and reading about these facts can be deeply disturbing. Depth psychology tells us that when a thought or...