York St John University has been a leading education, training and research institution at the heart of the city of York for over 175 years.
The award-winning campus has undergone a multi-million pound transformation over the past 10 years, making York St John an outstanding place to work and study. Research at York St John covers a wide range of themes and issues across all nine of our academic Schools and highlights the University’s emphasis on working in partnership with a wide range of organisations.
Equality, opportunity and social justice are at the centre of the University’s ethos and this is reflected in their reputation for academic excellence, graduate employability and strong sense of community. Research is seen as one of the main ways that York St John can make a real difference to people’s lives, by using academic expertise to help people better understand the world and their lives within it, contributing to the richness of the cultural economy and playing a bigger part in the wider economic development of the community, region and beyond.
New research shows that perfectionism has increased dramatically over the last 25 years, and that perfectionists become more neurotic and less conscientious as time passes.
Faut-il s’inquiéter lorsqu’un enfant s’invente un compagnon de jeu ? Des études montrent au contraire que les amis imaginaires stimuleraient la créativité et l’empathie des plus jeunes.
L’enfant bilingue qui place un mot de japonais dans une phrase en anglais confond-il les deux langues ? Au contraire, c’est le signe d’une créativité et d’une bonne maîtrise linguistique.
Despite the myth of consumption as an ethereal, wasting disease, the more prosaic truth is that the Brontës likely infected one another with tuberculosis.
Existe una enorme presión sobre los jóvenes para que se esfuercen al máximo para alcanzar sus metas. Los datos indican que muchos están luchando para hacer frente a esta situación que puede poner en riesgo su salud mental.