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- Poe’s Birthday
It’s Edgar Allan Poe’s birthday. Poe is a figure who has fascinated readers for nearly 2 centuries. His death at the age of 40, on a Baltimore street at election time, has led to speculation that he died of alcohol … Continue reading → ... read more - Breastfeeding beyond infancy can be beneficial for children and parents – mothers explain pressure they feel to stop – Dr Amy Burton writes for The Conversation
Dr Amy Burton Dr Amy Burton writes about photo-elicitation breastfeeding research conducted by members of the Staffordshire Centre for Psychological Research, Centre for Health Psychology (Dr Amy Burton, Dr Jennifer Taylor, Dr Alison Owen and Dr Sarah Dean). Dr Amy Burton writes about how participants shared feelings of intense ... read more - Our research calls for structured global telehealth guidelines to improve remote patient care
The COVID-19 pandemic saw an unprecedented expansion of telehealth with a shift to remote patient consultations across the allied health professions. Our study published in BMJ Open has examined current guidelines for the 14 Allied Health Professionals (AHPs) in the UK reveals a clear need to solve the disparities in the ... read more - Meet StaffsPsych PhD researcher Matthew Kimberley
Written by Matthew Kimberley, Psychology PhD Researcher I am currently in the second year of my PhD at Staffordshire University. Every PhD at Staffs is completely different and is tailored to the researcher. You choose your own research area and much of the design and the direction of the ... read more - Firearms Global Perspectives on Consequences, Crime and Control
Dr Helen Poole, Executive Dean of the School of Justice, Security and Sustainability, has co-edited Firearms: Global Perspectives on Consequences, Crime and Control with Dr Simon Sneddon (University of Northampton). The book explores the illicit use of firearms across the globe, including legal, social science, technical and research perspectives on ... read more - Jane Austen: Reimagining the Text.It is a truth universally acknowledged that any blog post about Jane Austen must begin with an awkward homage to her best-known novel, Pride and Prejudice It is also a truth universally acknowledged that, since her death on 18 July 1817, aged only 41, many writers have sought to capture ... read more
- The famous ‘Belmarsh case’ – twenty years since the detention of ‘A and others’, in breach of their human rightsOn Human Rights Day (10th of December), Aidan Flynn, Senior Lecturer in Law, recollects the famous ‘Belmarsh case’ on the twentieth anniversary of the detentions that led to the case. Following the Al-Qaeda terrorist attacks in the USA in September 2001, the UK Parliament swiftly passed the Anti-terrorism, Crime and ... read more
- Protecting The Magic With Linzi TicehurstLucy Moseley, Visitor Attraction and Resort Management Student On Friday the 26th of November 2021, Year 2 of the Visitor Attractions and Resort Management (VARM) students attended an in-person guest lecture with Linzi Ticehurst (Health and Safety Manager at Alton … Continue reading → ... read more
- Top Award for PhD Researcher
PhD researcher Daria Cherkaska has received a prestigious award for her doctoral work. The Moshe Mirilashvili Center for Research on the Holocaust in the Soviet Union at Yad Vashem selected Daria for a Research Scholarship as part of their Doctoral Students and Young Scholar’s grant program. Her research, ... read more - The Lion, the Witch and the WardrobeThis week, it is 123 years since the birth of CS Lewis (B. Nov 29th, 1898). Children’s Literature provides a fascinating lense through which to view social attitudes to childhood and to explore the development of fantasy literature as a … Continue reading → ... read more
- Closing the door on protection? Exploring the impact of lockdown upon children and young people’s services in the UK
Dr Luke Telford has co-writen a journal article called “Closing the door on protection? Exploring the impact of lockdown upon children and young people’s services in the UK”, with D. Briggs, A. Ellis, A. Lloyd, and J. Kotzé. The article was published in the YVJ special issue, Critical youth voices ... read more - Domestic Abuse Victims Facing Homelessness
Aryan Sharma (Student) According to the Guardian, domestic abuse has caused nearly 1 in 6 new homelessness cases, from April to June of 2021. Data from the Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities further suggests that even as the overall amount of homeless people is decreasing, the amount of ... read more - Are Employers Perpetuating the Gender Pay Gap by Asking About Salary History?
Lauren Foster (Student) The Fawcett Society is the UK’s leading membership charity campaigning for gender equality and women’s rights at work, at home and in public life. They are asking employers to stop asking prospective employees about their salary history. The Fawcett Society stated that asking about previous pay in ... read more - Land Registry announces first mandatory digital process
Jack Marshall (Student) The digital age is now upon us. Previously if conveyancers wanted to make changes to an existing title it would have been sufficient for them to provide a scanned copy of the form From November 2022 it is compulsory to use the digital registration process. This is ... read more - Dr Alison Owen is recruiting to a new study exploring factors that might be related to tanning behaviours and sunbed use
Dr Alison Owen HLecturer in Health Psychology at Staffordshire University, Dr Alison Owen, is working in collaboration with Dr Manpal Bhogal at the University of Wolverhampton, looking at some of the factors that might be related to tanning behaviours and sunbed use. In 2013, researchers Dr Alison Owen, Professor David ... read more