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Health, Sports & Psychology
Victory through resilience: how England Vitality Roses adapted to setbacks
Failure is rarely something people seek out because it’s uncomfortable and reminds us of our shortcomings, whether of personal goals or external expectations. However, avoiding failure would mean avoiding sports.
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Health, Sports & Psychology
Netball Super League 2025: the Nottingham Forest rise to success!
Learn about Nottingham Forest Netball and their rise to success in this article.
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Health, Sports & Psychology
Vitality Netball Nations Cup 2025: can the England Roses go all the way?
The Vitality Netball Nations Cup kicked off on 1 February 2025. Find out more in this article.
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Health, Sports & Psychology
Pushing through the speed barrier: trailblazing women in motorsport
Explore how women are increasingly breaking into the traditionally male-dominated field of motorsport in this article.
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Health, Sports & Psychology
The trailblazers of 2024 launch women’s sport into an exciting 2025
Women’s sport continued to rise in popularity in 2024. Review the key players for 2024 and explore the potential up-and-comers for 2025 in this article.
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Health, Sports & Psychology
Sporting women in the media
The mass media (e.g. radio, TV, internet) has become one of the most powerful institutional influences in society. This free course, Sporting women in the media, explores whether gendered inequalities exist in sport by evaluating the media coverage. The media can be highly influential in shaping perceptions about gender in sport and headlines ...
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Euro 24: Innovation and Trends in Modern Football
As Germany gears up to host the men’s Euros this summer, Steph Doehler explores developments in modern football and their impact on Euro 2024.
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Health, Sports & Psychology
Talking about the menopause: symptoms, support and the role of exercise
This free OpenLearn course is designed to help anyone whose life is affected by the menopause. No matter what gender you identify with, this transitional phase can affect people in all sorts of ways, so this course is open to all. The objectives are to empower everyone, by increasing knowledge of what the menopause is and the effects it can ...
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Health, Sports & Psychology
Why is it so difficult for Muslim women to play sport?
How are Muslim women represented by the media and what implications does this have on their participation in sport? Rukhsana Malik draws on her own experiences in this article.
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Health, Sports & Psychology
The rise of the Roses
With the Netball World Cup being played this summer, attention returns once again to the potential of the England Roses to achieve success and inspire a nation.
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Health, Sports & Psychology
Why is Netball and other team sports so important for female sports participation?
With a summer of women’s world cups soon to be upon us, this article looks at why participation in team sports such as netball is a vital factor in the quest to close the gender gap and encourage more women to be active.
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Vitality Netball World Cup 2023 – what’s it all about and who is going to win?
The summer of 2023 is turning into another significant one for women’s sport. Alongside the women’s football world cup and the women’s Ashes cricket series we also have the Vitality Netball World Cup.