Dr Phil Hurst discusses why placebo-controlled trials are needed to determine whether Nike Vaporfly trainers improve performance.
‘When schizophrenia isn’t schizophrenia’
This Saturday marks ‘World Encephalitis Day’ raising awareness of syndromes caused by brain inflammation, but as Joel Petch, Senior Lecturer in Mental Health and Bioscience at Christ Church and Dan W Joyce, Research fellow from the University of Oxford discuss, some cases may be misdiagnosed as a form of schizophrenia, not encephalitis and this has the potential to delay the correct treatment.
Supervision in education
Today, Barnardo’s Scotland released a report calling for more support to be made available for the mental health and wellbeing of teaching staff within schools. Dr Alan Bainbridge, argues that the provision of supervision in education should be a moral obligation.
Celebrating 150 years of Charles Dickens
To mark the 150th anniversary of Charles Dickens’s death this year, Professor Carolyn Oulton discusses the writer’s connections with Kent.
How to succeed with a policing degree apprenticeship
Christ Church is one of four universities working together as part of the Police Education Consortium, which is delivering the Police Constable Degree Apprenticeship programme with three forces: Surrey and […]
Teacher – Find your brave!
Wendy Cobb explains how the Faculty of Education is supporting teachers to support emotional health and wellbeing in the classroom.
Helping children find their inner brave!
Dr Kristy Howells looks at how daily physical activity in schools can help support children both physical and mentally to maintain good health.
The value of Higher and Degree Apprenticeships
For National Apprenticeship Week, 3 – 9 February, Dr Ken Powell looks at the value of Higher and Degree Apprenticeships (HDAs).
Meghan, Laurence and Question Time: the unbearable discomfort of disavowal or ‘Privileged? Racist? Moi?’
Dr Harshad Keval explores the issue of race, power and deniability following a recent episode of Question Time.