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Women football players as role models – an uneven playing field?
All eyes have been on women’s football, and on the England team as the winners of the UEFA Women’s Euros in Switzerland. The players are often held up as role models but is the pressure to inspire greater on women compared to men? Professor Stacey Pope from our Department of Sport and Exercise Sciences has looked into this.

Why newborn babies don’t need sleep training
Britain’s long-distance tin trade transformed the Bronze Age across Europe and the Mediterranean
Study on domestic abuse of older people sheds light on risk factors
New study paves way for greener digital infrastructure
People with health issues denied medication in police custody
Study finds England’s trainee teachers excel in early reading instruction
Women football players as role models – an uneven playing field?
All eyes have been on women’s football, and on the England team as the winners of the UEFA Women’s Euros in Switzerland. The players are often held up as role models but is the pressure to inspire greater on women compared to men? Professor Stacey Pope from our Department of Sport and Exercise Sciences has looked into this.

Why newborn babies don’t need sleep training
Britain’s long-distance tin trade transformed the Bronze Age across Europe and the Mediterranean
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