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Talking about weight in therapy – Top tips for size affirmative practice
Health, Sports & Psychology

Talking about weight in therapy – Top tips for size affirmative practice

...OU PhD student, Michelle Oldale, tells us what the research shows...As a psychotherapist who is also a fat woman it did not previously occur to me how my size and that of my clients impacted on the work we did together. Size is hardly ever considered as an aspect of diversity, except in the size acceptance and fat activist communities. My perspective changed when I read...
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Article 10 mins
Grief and COVID-19: Mourning what we know, who we miss and the way we say goodbye
Health, Sports & Psychology

Grief and COVID-19: Mourning what we know, who we miss and the way we say goodbye

...become worried about becoming infected or spreading the virus themselves (Ghosh et al, 2020). The possibility that family members and friends could die are significant stressors affecting young people during COVID-19, especially if they belong to a ‘high risk’ group. Death anxiety occurs where children fear that a parent may contract the virus and ultimately die...
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Article 20 mins
Hybrid working: wellbeing and inclusion
Money & Business

Hybrid working: wellbeing and inclusion

...students while physical attendance at lectures, seminars, etc. were not permitted. Many higher education institutions (HEIs) took the opportunity to reflect on how these emergency practices and policies could or should evolve into a planned and proactive approach to working in a hybrid environment. This process of reflection included a greater focus on the wellbeing and...
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Level 1: Introductory 12 hrs
Researching Antarctic ice sheets
Nature & Environment

Researching Antarctic ice sheets

...become “unstable” goes back four decades. In the 1970s two US material scientists who had become interested in glacial ice, Terry Hughes and Hans Weertman, and US-based British glaciologist John Mercer were among those to propose that the parts of the ice sheet resting on bedrock below sea level might be vulnerable to a mechanism of self-sustaining ice loss they...
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Why is there a tax on tampons - and why is it so hard to make sanitary protection tax free?
Society, Politics & Law

Why is there a tax on tampons - and why is it so hard to make sanitary protection tax free?

...becomes a tax on gender. It is a form of discrimination based on a natural biological process authorised by a primarily male government from 40 years ago. Men just voted to keep a tax on women. Yet another reason why we need a more gender-balanced parliament. #tampontax — Rainbow Murray (@RainbowMurray) October 26, 2015 Campaigners highlight that exotic meats (such as...
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Methods in Motion: Research Modes, Moves, Methods
Society, Politics & Law

Methods in Motion: Research Modes, Moves, Methods

...becoming a mother; I also wrote about mothering, lone mothering, ‘new’ families, and the cultures of everyday life in Britain, exploring changes in my own life and the environment I was living in, curious to learn from others about their lives and choices. The social divisions of class, gender, ethnicity, and nationality, and the challenges of changing them when...
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Article 5 mins
How to find invisible black holes
Science, Maths & Technology

How to find invisible black holes

...student at The Open University, explains how you can become a citizen scientist and start your search...Somewhere in space a black hole silently orbits a star. The star is bright enough that telescopes on Earth can view it easily, yet the black hole is invisible. Unlike many other black holes this one isn’t drawing in matter from its companion star; it’s what we call...
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Article 10 mins
What’s corruption got to do with climate change, and why should we care?
Nature & Environment

What’s corruption got to do with climate change, and why should we care?

...becomes uninhabitable for future generations?...Code Red for Humanity The extent of the challenge has been set out in the starkest of terms by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change1 (IPCC) in their August 2021 report. They state that there is no room for doubt that climate change is the result of human activity and that the ‘scale of recent changes across the...
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