Blog and updates
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15 Jan 2019
'Little man or little angel?'
This article focuses on how childhood has changed throughout history, or at least the perception of it.
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14 Jan 2019
The Economist: Special Report Childhood
The Economist recently published a special report into childhood with a series of articles looking at aspects such as technology, the changing role of children in society and the impacts of poverty.
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11 Jan 2019
Parkrun
Here is an interesting opinion piece from The Guardian about 'Parkrun', a free weekly running initiative that is assisted by volunteers.
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10 Jan 2019
City of the Future: Singapore
Here is a documentary from National Geographic about Singapore.
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9 Jan 2019
Falling Fertility Rates
Recent global figures have shown that women are having less children (average 2.4 children).
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8 Jan 2019
Domestic Abuse
The following article explores the impact of domestic abuse and violence on males.
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7 Jan 2019
Instagram Stars
Bloomberg has created a mini-series of short documentaries entitled 'Next Jobs', a closer look at jobs of the future.
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21 Dec 2018
Green Taxes
Recent unrest in France has led to President Macron revoking a tax on motor fuel that was intended to be one strategy to help reduce greenhouse gas emissions. Macron was partly forced to do this as...
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20 Dec 2018
Social Media and Surgery
The following video from Broadly explores how the impact of social media is leading some people to opt for plastic surgery. But instead of people asking to look like someone else (as one of the...
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19 Dec 2018
Social Mobility
According to the recent report from the Social Mobility Commission, young people are “highly skeptical about advancement [in terms of social mobility] being a reality”.
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18 Dec 2018
Health Apps
Research by a mobile analytics group has found that the usage of health of fitness apps has grown by as much as 330% between 2014 and 2017. Some applications related to anxiety and depression have...
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17 Dec 2018
Divorce Rates
The Office of National Statistics reported in September that, in England and Wales in 2017, 8.4% of 1,000 opposite sex couples got divorced. On the other hand, divorce rates for same-sex couples...
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13 Dec 2018
Gene-edited babies
A story broke recently about a Chinese scientist who claims to have created the first genetically edited babies.
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12 Dec 2018
The MeToo Movement
The founder of the MeToo movement, Tarana Burke describes the campaign now as “unrecognisable’.
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11 Dec 2018
University Applications
As the deadline draws closer for the submission of UCAS applications and with some students considering applying to study sociology, here is an article to help students construct their personal...
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10 Dec 2018
BBC 2 Series: School
The TV show ‘School’ follows the experiences of pupils, teachers, parents and management across one academic year in a multi-academy trust.
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7 Dec 2018
Podcast Recommendation: Ways to change the world
Another podcast recommendation that could be used as a homework task, to consolidate students learning or act as a 'stretch' activity to challenge students comes from Channel 4 News.
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6 Dec 2018
The power of imagery: Climate Change
The following article from BBC Future explores the power of images to convey big ideas, and in particular climate change.
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5 Dec 2018
Has migration gone too far?
In a recent interview, Hillary Clinton warned that Europe needed to 'get a handle' on migration, otherwise risk 'fanning the flames of populism'.
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