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
Year: 2020
Myths in Austrian History
Austria’s post-WWII ‘victim-myth’ both shaped the country post-war history and, since its deconstruction in the aftermath of the Waldheim affair, is now a central trope in the scholarly literature. This volume aims at extending the discussion of different myths throughout Austria’s 20th century-history and some of their continuing impact on the present. We consider ‘myths’…Continue Reading Myths in Austrian History
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
‘Ploughing on’: a sociological investigation of ‘endurance work’ in competitive swimming and distance-running
Despite a burgeoning corpus of qualitative studies of sport and physical cultures, in-depth and embodied investigations of those requiring sustained engagement with ‘endurance work’ remain relatively under-developed. These physical cultures are sociologically interesting as they often demand of practitioners intense commitment in terms of time, energy, and (for many) finances devoted to endurance-training regimes. They…Continue Reading ‘Ploughing on’: a sociological investigation of ‘endurance work’ in competitive swimming and distance-running
What is known about the role of rural-urban residency in relation to self-management in people affected by cancer who have completed primary treatment? A scoping review
Purpose Despite wide acknowledgement of differences in levels of support and health outcomes between urban and rural areas, there is a lack of research that explicitly examines these differences in relation to self-management in people affected by cancer following treatment. This scoping review aimed to map the existing literature that examines self-management in people affected…Continue Reading What is known about the role of rural-urban residency in relation to self-management in people affected by cancer who have completed primary treatment? A scoping review