Month: September 2020

Parents in lockdown

There has been a great deal of speculation in the media about how relationships have fared during lockdown. Commitment theory sheds some interesting light on the matter in terms of predicting potential winners and losers (Stanley et al 2006). Commitment has two different facets: Dedication is the internal bond between two people that reflects their…Continue Reading Parents in lockdown

The predictors, barriers and facilitators to effective management of acute pain in children by emergency medical services: A systematic mixed studies review

We aimed to identify predictors, barriers and facilitators to effective pre-hospital pain management in children. A segregated systematic mixed studies review was performed. We searched from inception to 30-June-2020: MEDLINE, CINAHL Complete, PsycINFO, EMBASE, Web of Science Core Collection and Scopus. Empirical quantitative, qualitative and multi-method studies of children under 18 years, their relatives or…Continue Reading The predictors, barriers and facilitators to effective management of acute pain in children by emergency medical services: A systematic mixed studies review

Extinction the Facts by Sir David Attenborough

Extinction the Facts by Sir David Attenborough showed the crisis we all face in preserving our planets biodiversity.  Many of these problems are global or transnational:  global warning, Illegal wildlife trafficking, overfishing our oceans…  This means our responses must be international.  As the programme showed, when there is political will to act,  we can take…Continue Reading Extinction the Facts by Sir David Attenborough

COVID-19: has the pandemic affected relationships between children and their non-resident parents?

The well-being and outcomes of children living in separated families are associated with the quality of their relationship with their non-resident parent, and child maintenance provided by that parent. It is therefore important to understand how COVID-19 has affected these. While the Understanding Society COVID-19 survey suggests a strong degree of stability in many children’s…Continue Reading COVID-19: has the pandemic affected relationships between children and their non-resident parents?

PGR Connect Series

The PGR Connect Series drew to a close last week after nine excellent seminars over the course of July, August, and September. With the cancellation of many conferences in recent months and doctoral researchers now finding themselves working from home rather than alongside their peers in postgraduate offices, the sport and exercise psychology team in…Continue Reading PGR Connect Series

Punk is just a state of mind: Exploring what punk means to older punk women

What does punk mean to older punk women? And how are such understandings interwoven with experiences of ageing and gender? The complexity in defining punk has been noted and it has been suggested that this complexity in part results from punk’s dislike of being labelled/categorised. Drawing upon interviews with 22 self-identifying older punk women, this…Continue Reading Punk is just a state of mind: Exploring what punk means to older punk women

The Effectiveness of a Must-Have Practical Work in Tertiary Life Science Education

The teaching of sciences has long been associated with practical work; an instructional tool that is believed to be effective in terms of both promoting learning as well as making the teaching of sciences enjoyable. However, empirical evidence on its effectiveness as a teaching method and whether it has any affective value for undergraduates is…Continue Reading The Effectiveness of a Must-Have Practical Work in Tertiary Life Science Education

The Law of Responsibility and the World Health Organisation: A Case Study on the West African Ebola Outbreak

The delay between the WHO being made aware of the 2014 Ebola epidemic in West Africa and declaring it a Public Health Emergency of International Concern (PHEIC) has been the subject of some considerable criticism in the literature, as well as in the Report of the Ebola Interim Assessment Panel commissioned by the WHO, which…Continue Reading The Law of Responsibility and the World Health Organisation: A Case Study on the West African Ebola Outbreak

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