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We Are the Storytellers: Co-Creating Counternarratives with Black Caribbean Boys
No full textThis blog titled We Are the Storytellers: Co-Creating Counternarratives with Black Caribbean Boys presents a preview of a research project exploring the experiences of Black Caribbean male students within the UK GCSE English literature curriculum. Drawing on Critical Race Theory and narrative inquiry, the study frames literature as both a site of cultural exclusion and identity-work. Through analysis of one-to-one participatory interviews and multimodal techniques (text rating, visual mapping, emoji reflection), the research offers insight into the facilitation of heterotopic spaces: safe relational settings where students reflect on race, masculinity, belonging and justice. The most consequential innovation lies in the dissemination method: co-created composite sonic counter-narratives that preserve students’ own words, tone and rhythm, and invite listeners to hear rather than just read their voices. In the composite narrative “Unmasking Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde”, the boys draw on canonical texts to interrogate dualities of identity, stereotype, resistance and belonging. Ultimately, the blog calls educators, researchers and policy-makers to pause and truly listen to marginalised young people — not merely as subjects, but as storytellers rewriting their own narratives of hope, agency and transformation.<br/
Federated Learning in Public Health: A Systematic Review of Decentralized, Equitable, and Secure Disease Prevention Approaches
Get PDFBackground and Objectives: Public health needs collaborative, privacy-preserving analytics, but centralized AI is constrained by data sharing and governance. Federated learning (FL) enables training without moving sensitive data. This review assessed how FL is used for disease prevention in population and public health, and mapped benefits, challenges, and policy implications. Methods: Following PRISMA 2020, we searched PubMed, Scopus, Web of Science, IEEE Xplore, and Google Scholar for peer reviewed English-language studies from January 2020-30 June 2025, applying FL to surveillance, outbreak detection, risk prediction, or policy support. Two reviewers screened and extracted data with third-reviewer arbitration. Quality was appraised with a tool adapted from MMAT and AI reporting frameworks. No meta-analysis was performed. Results: Of 5230 records identified (4720 after deduplication), 200 full texts were assessed and 19 were included. Most used horizontal FL across multiple institutions for communicable diseases, COVID-19, tuberculosis and some chronic conditions. Reported gains included privacy preservation across sites, better generalizability from diverse data, near real-time intelligence, localized risk stratification, and support for resource planning. Common barriers were non-IID data, interoperability gaps, compute and network limits in low-resource settings, unclear legal pathways, and concerns about fairness and transparency. Few studies linked directly to formal public-health policy or low-resource deployments. Conclusions: FL is promising for equitable, secure, and scalable disease-prevention analytics that respect data sovereignty. Priorities include robust methods for heterogeneity, interoperable standards, secure aggregation, routine fairness auditing, clearer legal and regulatory guidance, and capacity building in underrepresented regions
Men’s health, physical activity, and ageing in a professional football club community organization programme
Get PDFProfessional sport club community organizations (CCOs) are regarded as important neighbourhood settings for men’s health promotion. However, little is known about how age, and perceptions of ageing and masculinity, shape physically inactive men’s engagement in CCO-led health programmes. This study addresses this international knowledge gap by presenting novel insights on the lived experiences of 17 physically inactive men (aged 30–71) involved in the Active Blues programme based in north-west England. Men who engaged in the programme initially regarded it as an important opportunity to return to competitive sport. However, it was the facilitation of traditional masculine values of banter and camaraderie with new like-minded peers which was essential for men’s continued engagement, and which helped them manage age-related health conditions. Those who did not engage in Active Blues were more likely to have accepted socially constructed deficit-focused narratives of ageing which, for some, meant ‘slowing down’. Fulfilling family commitments and caring responsibilities also prevented some men’s engagement. The findings emphasize the need to develop more diverse and culturally nuanced understandings of engaging men in gender-responsive CCO-led health promotion programmes which are underpinned by conceptions of positive, strengths-based, healthy masculinities and which reinforce notions of peer support, camaraderie and openness
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No full textThis ground-breaking Encyclopedia presents a new take on the field of queer studies with its wide and inclusive range of entries, examining pathways for research into gender, sexuality and relationships. It covers significant developments in digital culture, globalization, identity, health and politics.Contributing authors analyze the interdisciplinary nature of the field, recognizing how queer studies has evolved for over three decades and remains in constant flux. They engage with a broad range of topics and frameworks, including historical and contemporary theorizing, as well as emerging concepts that respond to the fast-changing practices of identity and belonging in current contexts. They also dissect important and often overlooked dimensions of queer studies, including key social movements, minorities and intersectionality.Key Features:● Over 100 historically-grounded entries describing recent developments and forward-looking insights● Outlines significant updates in the field, focusing on cutting-edge terms and concepts in queer scholarship, culture and society● Features perspectives from diverse disciplines including health, education, media and digital communication, culture, fashion and geographyThe Elgar Encyclopedia of Queer Studies is invaluable to students and academics in cultural studies, human rights, family and gender politics, political science, social psychology, sociology and queer studies. Policymakers and professionals in the field will also find it to be a crucial resource
Shared learning and reflections from the MuM study: An online antenatal music programme for maternal wellbeing co-designed by midwives, music therapists and women with lived experience
Get PDFINVESTIGATING THE WEIGHT CHANGE, DIETARY INTAKE AND PHYSICAL ACTIVITY OF BLACK PREGNANT WOMEN IN THE UK: A MIXED METHODS APPROACH
Get PDFConstraining the timing and processes of pediment formation and dissection:implications for long-term evolution in the Western Cape, South Africa
Get PDFPediment surfaces are a widespread feature of the southern African landscape and have long been regarded as ancient landforms. Cosmogenic nuclide data from four pediment surfaces in the Gouritz catchment, Western Cape, South Africa, are reported, including boulder surface samples and a depth profile through a colluvial pediment deposit. Pediment surfaces are remarkably stable with long-term denudation rates between 0.3 and 1.0 m Myr−1, and their 10Be concentrations approach or are at secular equilibrium. Duricrusts have developed in the pediments and are preserved in some locations, which represent an internal geomorphic threshold limiting denudation and indicate at least 2 Myr of geomorphic stability following pediment formation. The pediments and the neighbouring Cape Fold Belt are deeply dissected by small-order streams that form up to 280 m deep river valleys in the resistant fold belt bedrock geology, indicating a secondary incision phase of the pediments by these smaller-order streams. Using the broader stratigraphic and geomorphic framework, the minimum age of pediment formation is considered to be Miocene. Several pediment surfaces grade above the present trunk valleys of the Gouritz River, which suggests that the trunk rivers are long-lived features that acted as local base levels during pediment formation and later incised pediments to present levels. The geomorphic processes controlling the formation and evolution of the pediments varied over time, with pediments formed by hillslope diffusive processes as shown by the lack of fluvial indicators in the colluvial deposits and later development by fluvial processes with small tributaries dissecting the pediments. Integrating various strands of evidence indicates that the pediments are long-lived features
‘Give us more time’ young disabled students experiences of career provision in English mainstream secondary schools
Get PDFSince 2011, increased responsibility has been placed on English mainstream schools to provide appropriate careers guidance and support to their students to prepare them for a successful transition from school. Disabled students are likely to encounter many barriers in their transitions from formal education settings, and they are less likely to be in employment, training, or education when compared to their non‐disabled peers. With growing numbers of disabled students attending mainstream provisions, a key challenge encountered by such schools is ensuring that they are providing inclusive and accessible career support to all young people. This project hoped to provide young people with an opportunity to reflect on their experiences of career support and to highlight what they think professionals need to consider in order to meet the needs of disabled students. Providing space for young people to be able to articulate their needs is particularly important, as once they begin to transition from mainstream school, there is increased emphasis on them being able to self‐advocate. Over the period of one academic year, nine young people, aged between 14 and 15 years old, took part in a series of research workshops to identify key principles for supporting young people to access careers in the classroom. We hope to provide opportunities for professionals who work with young people to be able to reflect on how they can best prepare young people for their transitions from mainstream school
A logic model to guide ‘My Grief My Way’: An intervention development study for a digital psychological support package for unmet bereavement support needs
Get PDFLogic models are simplified graphics that guide the development and evaluation of complex interventions. This paper describes a logic model for an online intervention to improve coping and quality of life after bereavement. A combination approach to intervention development was used. Evidence was synthesized in iterative cycles from: (i) research literature; (ii) interviews with therapists; (iii) workshops with bereaved people; (iv) workshops with bereavement support professionals; and (v)expertise of the research team. The logic model illustrated the links between: risk factors for and indicators of grief support needs, contextual considerations for online interventions, intervention components, change mechanisms, short and long term intended outcomes at the individual and organizational level, as well as broader impacts. The logic model guided the intervention development process, fostering collaboration and synthesis of multiple sources. The description of the process will be useful to other intervention developers
