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No Longer a Sign of Weakness? Media Reporting on Mental Ill Health in Sport
No full textThis study analyzed media framing of athletes who have suffered mental ill health. The mass media play a crucial role in shaping public attitudes and perceptions surrounding mental health, and the present study aimed to examine the media reporting of athletes’ mental ill health and to further explore how this reporting has changed over time. We examined the reporting of elite athletes in three U.K. media outlets between January 2000 and December 2019, identifying 75 athletes from 26 different sports. From analysis, four themes were developed to consider the content of media reporting and how it has changed over three time phases. The analysis revealed that media reporting of mental ill health has increased over time, and changes were observed in terms of the specific terminology used, with greater depth in the articles, such as journalists speaking to other professionals to construct the articles. This study contributes toward our growing understanding of the reporting of mental ill health by providing empirical evidence of the increased attention to the topic and increasingly responsible reporting in the media
Please Dont Bomb the Ghost of My Brother
No full textA volume of poetry which considers personal loss and geopolitical issues
Literacy, Learning and the Language of Silence:Identifying the Processes of Focused Silence as a Pedagogic Tool in Education
No full textLiteracy, learning and the language of silence: identifying the processes of focused silence as a pedagogic tool in education. Csikszentmihalyi’s notion of ‘the zone’, a stage of creative practice often interpreted as an immersion in some form of silence, has been fundamental to my evolution as a writer of fiction, and as a teacher of both literacy and creative writing. This contribution will explore techniques for embedding intentional silence methodologies intoteaching literacy-based subjects, nurturing arts-based approaches to learning. Through such teaching the process of silence can make quantifiable differences at all levels of education. Focused silence offers an aid to imagination, to creative thinking, and to problem solving. Through silence learners engage with more than the tangible task; deepening the silence experience engages emotion and whole-body awareness, opening potential for widening benefits related to ownership of ideas, confidence, and motivation – all current issues within teaching and learning. When learners engage with silence, it gives voice to their inner introvert. Learners hear themselves think, and know, through connection with that quieter voice, they have something valuable to say
McCulloch, A. and McCulloch, A. (2021) Why Can't You Hear Me? London: Jessica Kingsley, Paperback £14.99
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What (if anything) should Christian theology learn from the cognitive science of religion?
Get PDFThis article asks what, if anything, Christian theology should learn from the cognitive science of religion (CSR). Two possible answers are explored. The first is that Christian theology has nothing to learn from CSR. This is rejected in favour of the second: theology can learn from CSR by appropriating CSR insights carefully and critically to a theological understanding formed first and foremost by Scripture. Karl Barth’s theological critique of religion and his engagement with Ludwig Feuerbach are used as a model for this approach. The article concludes with specific proposals about how, and how not, to engage theologically with CSR
Guerre et genèse des frontières ouest-saxonnes du VIe siècle d’après la Chronique anglo-saxonne (IXe siècle)
Get PDFThis article addresses the construction of the different frontiers of the West Saxon kingdom (southern England), represented in the ninth-century Anglo-Saxon Chronicle. It considers how the battles and other military encounters recorded in the Chronicle for the pre-Viking past of the kingdom, principally the years of the seventh century, relate to the framing of the territorial interests of the kingdom as it stood during the late ninth century. The article discusses the geographical significance of four phases of West Saxon conquest represented by the Chronicle, addressing how these contribute to a sense of the integrity of the frontier of the West Saxon kingdom and the legitimation of the West Saxon dynasty under Alfred
Localized activity attenuates the combined impact of a high fat meal and prolonged sitting on arterial stiffness: A randomized, controlled cross-over trial
Get PDFExposure to acute prolonged sitting and consumption of a high fat (HF) meal have been shown to independently and additively impair central and peripheral cardiovascular function. This study sought to determine whether localized activity, namely leg fidgeting, offers a protective effect to these deleterious effects. Using a randomized crossover design with three trials, 18 healthy males sat uninterrupted for 180 min following the consumption of a low fat (LF, trial 1) or HF meal (trial 2). The third trial consisted of a HF meal but sitting was interrupted with 1 min of leg fidgeting (isolated bilateral plantar flexion) consisting of −250 taps per min every 5 min for the 180 min duration. Carotid-femoral pulse wave velocity (cfPWV), aortic-femoral stiffness gradient (af-SG), superficial femoral blood flow, shear-rate and PWV β, triglyceride concentrations and lower-limb venous pooling (HHb) were assessed pre and post sitting in all trials. General linear mixed model found that following the uninterrupted HF trial, there was a significant worsening of cfPWV (mean difference (MD) = 0.57 mˑs −1; d = 1.04) and the af-SG (MD = 0.14, d = 0.50), and femoral artery blood flow (MD = 18 mlˑmin −1; d = 0.48) and shear rate (MD = 15 S 1; d = 0.67) decreased. However, leg fidgeting was enough to prevent the combined deleterious effects of prolonged sitting following a HF meal. As there were no significant changes in the LF trial, the HF meal maybe the predominant driver when uninterrupted sitting is combined with a HF meal. </p