Grandmothers and ‘intensive parenting’
What are the implications for grandmothers of ‘intensive parenting’ with its emphasis on extra curricular activities and supervised playdates.
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Grandmothers and ‘intensive parenting’
‘Intensiveparenting’, with its emphasis on extra curricular activities and supervised ‘playdates’ has become the norm. What are the implications for grandmothers who look after their grandchildren?
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Four women discuss the joys and challenges of being a grandmother.
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With Covid rates remaining stubbornly high and a huge pent-up demand for hospital care, the UK’s National Health Service faces a tough winter and intensive care wards are the canary in the mine. Pod Academy talks to doctors on the front line.
MoreCOVID-19 and the geopolitics of health
It’s not about individual countries. It’s not about individual regions. It’s not even about blocks. This doesn’t work unless we vaccinate everybody. But is geopolitics getting in the way of good public health policy as we strive to overcome COVID-19?
MoreBeyond the Virtual Exhibition
2020 had many cultural institutions racing to develop their virtual collections and tours. In the digital environment, the museum can take on a new role, less a place of authority, more an agora of ideas. But we have to think outside the box to solve curatorial issues.
MoreNawal el Saadawi – writer and activist
The death of writer and activist Nawal el Saadawi has just been announced. In 2011 Tess Woodcraft interviewed her at a conference organised by the Iranian and Kurdish Women’s Right Organisation for Pod Academy.
MoreJournalism in the pandemic: challenges and innovation
Journalism has sometimes been a dangerous profession during the Covid-19 pandemic, but there has been real innovation, too. Rachael Jolley considers how Covid 19 has influenced the future of journalism
MoreThe dangerous business of journalism in the pandemic
Authoritarian restrictions on the press, attacks on journalists in the streets and more accusations of ‘fake news’
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Local newspapers are in decline, exacerbated by the Covid pandemic. Can a new type of hyper-local journalism be the answer for local information and local democracy?
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