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Health, Sports & Psychology
What happens ‘When East Meets West’?
What benefits and obstacles are there when postgraduate students with East Asian heritage partake in distance learning with a Western university? Laura Tan investigates...
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Health, Sports & Psychology
A Time To Live - Extended Interviews
What would you do if you found out you had a terminal illness? Hear more from some of the people in 'A Time to Live' as they discuss their experiences of dealing with just that.
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Health, Sports & Psychology
Proper men, proper women: Gender roles in contemporary UK society
Do women have a need for feminism in a Britain where they can enjoy porn while men help out with childcare? It might be too soon to assume the arguments have been settled, warns Stephanie Taylor.
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Health, Sports & Psychology
Postgraduate study in psychology and criminology
Explore our postgraduate modules in criminology and psychology, and their related FREE OpenLearn courses.
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Society, Politics & Law
What does toilet paper teach us about poverty?
The purchasing pattern of a bathroom staple has a lot to teach us about how poverty works. Atif Kukaswadia explains.
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Health, Sports & Psychology
The psychology of World Cup fans
Sure, football is popular but it's never as popular as during a World Cup. Why is that? And does all this on-pitch conflict lead to countries hating each other a little bit more? Chris Stiff explores the psychology of people caught up in the men's World Cup.
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Health, Sports & Psychology
How can acceptance and commitment therapy help carers in challenging times such as the COVID-19 pandemic?
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (also known as ‘ACT’) is a type of psychological therapy used for people who feel ‘stuck’ due to complex life circumstances. This article explains more and offers some top tips.
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Health, Sports & Psychology
International Adoption
Open University Professor Monica Dowling looks at the effects of globalisation and the differences between 'qualitative' and 'quantitative' research and information in adoption.
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History & The Arts
If a pig gives you a new liver, do you give the pig rights?
Science is pushing ahead developing human-animal chimera creatures. Ethicists need to keep up to be ready for them, says Joshua Shepherd.
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Society, Politics & Law
What is the EU? - Student Hub Live's Brexit Special
Learn about the EU and how it extends, limits or replaces the work of national governments, in the opening video of the Student Hub Live Brexit special.
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Health, Sports & Psychology
Dying: what’s wellbeing got to do with it?
The concept of wellbeing is intended to be holistic and cover the entire life course and life events. However, when it comes to dying, wellbeing is usually not the first (or in top ten even) of words that people think about. People may be more familiar with thinking about ‘quality of life’, which if often linked to patient outcomes. In this ...
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Race and Youth Policy: working with young people
How should we, as a society, best respond to and prevent gang and knife crime and violent extremism?