scholarly journals The psychosocial impact of NHS Digital Badges on a school-aged cohort

2018 ◽  
Vol 22 (4) ◽  
pp. 619-630 ◽  
Author(s):  
Joanne H Alexander ◽  
Sarah Neill
Keyword(s):  
Well Being ◽  
Emotional Awareness ◽  
Psychosocial Impact ◽  
Small Scale ◽  
Digital Badges ◽  
School Aged Children ◽  
The North ◽  
Digital Engagement ◽  
Health And Well Being ◽  
Future Practice

Goal-oriented modalities of learning have long been used in educational settings to promote engagement and encourage a step-by-step approach to the acquisition of skills and knowledge. Historically, badges have been material, but in keeping with technological advancements there is a move towards encouraging greater digital engagement. Digital badges are today’s version of the Scouts and Guides badge, a virtual non-material version, increasingly being utilized as a pedagogical resource in education and business settings. In 2015, National Health Service (NHS) England developed and launched its own digital badges aimed at supporting children and young people’s education of health and well-being. This article presents findings from the first study to explore the psychosocial impact of NHS Digital Badges as perceived by primary school-aged children and their teachers. We conducted a small-scale evaluation involving children aged 8–10 ( n = 57) and their teachers ( n = 2), from a primary academy (school) in the north of England using NHS Digital Badges in their curriculum. Overwhelmingly, children and teachers reflected on the badges positively, as tools that have the capacity to build perseverance, develop emotional awareness, build relationships and enhance skill and knowledge acquisition. Some participants, though, raised vulnerability and safeguarding issues, and we explore the implications of these for future practice.

scholarly journals Enhancing Understanding of Adolescent Health and Well-Being: The Health Behaviour in School-aged Children Study

2020 ◽  
Vol 66 (6) ◽  
pp. S3-S5 ◽  
Author(s):  
Joanna C. Inchley ◽  
Gonneke W.J. M. Stevens ◽  
Oddrun Samdal ◽  
Dorothy B. Currie
Keyword(s):  
Adolescent Health ◽  
Health Behaviour ◽  
Well Being ◽  
School Aged Children ◽  
Health And Well Being

scholarly journals Improving dialogue among researchers, local and indigenous peoples and decision-makers to address issues of climate change in the North

AMBIO ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 49 (6) ◽  
pp. 1161-1178 ◽  
Author(s):  
Terry V. Callaghan ◽  
Olga Kulikova ◽  
Lidia Rakhmanova ◽  
Elmer Topp-Jørgensen ◽  
Niklas Labba ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Indigenous Peoples ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Decision Makers ◽  
The Arctic ◽  
The North ◽  
Working Together ◽  
Circumpolar North ◽  
Induced Changes ◽  
Permafrost Thawing ◽  
Health And Well Being

Abstract The Circumpolar North has been changing rapidly within the last decades, and the socioeconomic systems of the Eurasian Arctic and Siberia in particular have displayed the most dramatic changes. Here, anthropogenic drivers of environmental change such as migration and industrialization are added to climate-induced changes in the natural environment such as permafrost thawing and increased frequency of extreme events. Understanding and adapting to both types of changes are important to local and indigenous peoples in the Arctic and for the wider global community due to transboundary connectivity. As local and indigenous peoples, decision-makers and scientists perceive changes and impacts differently and often fail to communicate efficiently to respond to changes adequately, we convened a meeting of the three groups in Salekhard in 2017. The outcomes of the meeting include perceptions of how the three groups each perceive the main issues affecting health and well-being and recommendations for working together better.

scholarly journals Being a Former Carer: Impacts on Health and Well-Being

2016 ◽  
Vol 26 (4) ◽  
pp. 330-345 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jacqueline H. Watts ◽  
Joyce Cavaye
Keyword(s):  
United Kingdom ◽  
Qualitative Study ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Small Scale ◽  
Significant Issue ◽  
The United Kingdom ◽  
Need For Support ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Health And Well Being

In the United Kingdom, policy has formalized the role of carers through the introduction of new rights and entitlements to support. However, this support is directed only at current carers with the needs of former carers being unacknowledged. Yet, when caregiving comes to an end, the transition to a life as a “former” carer can be challenging. This article reports findings from a small-scale qualitative study about the experiences of former carers conducted in the United Kingdom. Findings highlight the impact of caregiving on the health and well-being of former carers with feelings of loss and distress associated with the end of caregiving. The need for support in the post-caregiving phase emerges as a significant issue with former carers feeling abandoned, lacking purpose and motivation to move forward in their lives. Findings suggest that the needs of former carers are not being met.

scholarly journals “I see my section scar like a battle scar”: The ongoing embodied subjectivity of maternity

2018 ◽  
Vol 28 (4) ◽  
pp. 470-487 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sally Johnson
Keyword(s):  
Continuous Process ◽  
Well Being ◽  
The Body ◽  
The North ◽  
Early Postpartum ◽  
Embodied Subjectivity ◽  
Beauty Ideals ◽  
The Aesthetic ◽  
The Life Course ◽  
Health And Well Being

Though many women may be dissatisfied with their bodies, maternity represents a period when the body deviates significantly from Western beauty ideals. However, the developing corpus of literature is contradictory and there is limited knowledge about the longer-term implications of maternity. Further, much of the early postpartum literature focuses on body image, precluding consideration of broader embodiment and other potential issues. Taking account of recent feminist critiques about acknowledging women’s reproductive capacities, the study reported here explores the embodied subjectivity of longer-term bodily changes resulting from pregnancy, childbirth and early mothering. The data explored are from three focus groups. Mothers were recruited from two universities in the North of England, UK. Data were transcribed and analysed thematically and discursively using a feminist and poststructuralist approach, while also taking account of where language was elusive. A number of contradictory, yet interrelated embodied constructions were identified including the aesthetic, the maternal, the suffering/sentient, the strong and the embarrassing body. New insights are offered, in that, not only are the postpartum body and the “work of mothering” inextricably linked, but also that maternal embodied identities are in continuous process across the life course and may have implications for health and well-being.

The Common Fisheries Policy

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Troels Jacob Hegland ◽  
Jesper Raakjaer
Keyword(s):  
Well Being ◽  
Fishing Communities ◽  
Small Scale ◽  
Management Approach ◽  
Fishing Rights ◽  
Resource Rent ◽  
Fish Stocks ◽  
The North ◽  
Fisheries Policy ◽  
The Common

The Common Fisheries Policy (CFP) is rooted in the Treaty of Rome. After its completion in 1983, the policy framework was gradually reformed through decennial reviews in 1993, 2003, and 2014. Due to geopolitical, physiographic, and historical reasons, the EU implementation of the CFP is most developed in the North Atlantic Ocean, the North Sea, and the Baltic Sea, and less developed in the Mediterranean and Black Sea. However, the CFP applies throughout European Union (EU) waters, which that are treated as a “common pond.” The CFP has been heavily contested since its introduction, and over long periods was characterized as a management system in crisis. Historically, the CFP has arguably struggled to perform and the policy’s ability to meet its objectives has not uncommonly been undermined by factors such as internally contradictory decisions and inefficient implementation. Since the turn of the century, the policy has changed its course by incrementally institutionalizing principles for a more environmentally orientated and scientifically based fisheries management approach. In general, in the latest decade, fisheries have become increasingly sustainable in both environmental and economic terms. An increasing number of fish stocks under the CFP are being exploited at sustainable levels—a development that is likely to continue, as fish stocks are coming to be more commonly managed along the lines of science-based multi-annual management plans. Consequently, many fishing fleets, particularly those deployed in northern waters, have shown good economic performance in recent years. This development has been further facilitated by the introduction of market-based management principles; in most member states these have been implemented by granting de facto ownership to fishing rights for free in the name of ecological and economic sustainability. This has, however, in many cases also led to huge wealth generation for a small privileged group of large-scale fishers at the expense of small-scale fisheries and smaller fishing communities, as well as society at large; this situation has led to calls for both a fairer distribution of fishing rights—to protect the small-scale sector—and for a resource rent or exploitation fee to be collected for the benefit of society at large, which is the true owner of fishing resources. Consequently, social sustainability, understood as the improved well-being of fishing communities and a fairer sharing out of the benefits derived from fisheries resources, should be a subject for the CFP to consider in the future.

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