Nomophobia – fear of being without mobile phone

Nomophobia is the fear of being out of mobile phone contact. The term, an abbreviation for “no-mobile-phone phobia”, was coined during a study by the UK Post Office who commissioned YouGov, a UK-based research organisation to look at anxieties suffered by mobile phone users. The study found that nearly 53 percent of mobile phone users […]

Towards Equal Voices : Childcare in Multicultural Britain

Dr Alex Tan is a senior contributing editor for Nee Hao Magazine, on issues and topics regarding his PhD study at Newcastle University of ‘Young British Chinese People’. In this article he introduces us to Dr Mabel Lie, author of Towards Equal Voices: Childcare and Children in Chinese and Bangladeshi households in Newcastle upon Tyne. By Dr Alex […]