Children have a right to leisure.

Are summer holidays good for children? It’s time researchers asked them

Children have a right to leisure.

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Calling all UK Qualitative researchers working with Health-related Trials! We’d love your insights in a survey exploring your experience of the pace and timing of the qualitative research, as well as your experience of working with the trial team. 🔗 uofg.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_...

Upcoming seminar on researcher wellbeing - of interest to folk working in sensitive or emotionally demanding/challenging research (or those managing the environments in which this work is done!) www.eventbrite.com.au/e/researcher...

Just out! Our peer-reviewed critique of the Cass Review has been published by BMC Medical Research Methodology. Please read and share. We show that the Cass Review is fatally flawed and should not be the basis for policy or practice in transgender healthcare. link.springer.com/article/10.1...

Free music tuition is at risk across Scotland right now. Removing barriers to arts for young people is vital, arguably now more than ever. I’m forever grateful for the free music lessons I got in south lan growing up and where it took (still takes) me www.change.org/p/save-our-c...

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Save our Children’s Music Tuition

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📢Launched today: The Gender Pain Gap consultation on Pain in Sexual & Reproductive Health Procedures (UK). Aim: To understand experiences, priorities & views of people with experience of painful procedures. openeducation.eu.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_... Open to 31 Jan. Please share widely!

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Stop the redundancies in Social and Public Health Sciences Unit at University of Glasgow

The University of Glasgow has placed more than 80 staff from its Social and Public Health Sciences Unit (SPHSU) in the School of Health and Wellbeing at risk of redundancy. We, the undersigned, conde...

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Arts and creative industries should not be treated as a luxury or dispensable dead weight www.campaignforthearts.org/petitions/sc...

Ken Robinson’s 2020 wisdom on the TWO climate crises he hoped we’d start to face sooner rather than later…

A Future For Us All - Sir Ken Robinson | Enhanced Version

Shortly before he passed away, Sir Ken Robinson contacted Andrew Park – Founder of We Are Cognitive to arrange a gift for his beloved community. A new animat...

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New blog post from Kathia Arreola-Rodriguez for the Emotionally Demanding Research Network (Scotland). Kathia speaks about ‘building her own path’ as a researcher, and using a visual and emotional diary. 📔 "The diary is sometimes a mirror, other times a canvas, a window, or a map" 🪞🖼️🗺️

Being yourself as a researcher, there’s no research handbook to guide you with that

Kathia Rebeca Arreola – Rodríguez, PhD Student, Education Program, San Andrés University https://www.instagram.com/objetosconmente/ Kathia is a doctoral student in Buenos Aires, Argentina, with a ...

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Rethinking children's right to leisure during school holidays - "a more sociological understanding, rooted within child-centred approaches to leisure, provides the opportunity for children’s agency, participation and citizenship to be investigated more fully" www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Rethinking children’s right to leisure during school holidays

Leisure and health are human rights that apply to both children and adults. Leisure can enhance health and enable people to participate fully in leisure activities. One of children’s main opportuni....

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For those working in (or supervising) emotionally demanding research / aka sensitive or challenging research - we wrote this hoping someone might find it useful...even just to know there are others in the same boat and we're trying to get the oars going! www.taylorfrancis.com/chapters/oa-...

Supporting Emotionally Demanding Research | 6 | Developing Guidance fo

Conducting research that is emotionally demanding can negatively impact the health and wellbeing of researchers if adequate planning and support are not in

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