Dr Lis Grey and Dr Beki Langford received a University of Bristol Knowledge Mobilisation Catalyst Award to talk to secondary school teachers about their work on weight-related bullying. Here’s what th...

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Dr Beki Langford is a Lecturer in Public Mental Health at the University of Bristol. She has been looking at school bullying policies to see if they address weight-related bullying as part of a projec...

Weight is reported to be the most common target for bullying at school - far more common than other targets such as ethnicity, religion or sexual orientation. Research suggests weight bias and stigma ...

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Background In England, the national Government was responsible for balancing the risks of COVID-19 infection, transmission and illness against the known risks of school closures. The Department for Ed...

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I saw first hand how prisons are having to use segregation units for acutely mentally ill inmates who should not be in prison at all