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Health, Sports & Psychology
Euro 2022 Championships
The UEFA Women's Euro 2022 Championships was held in England and won by the hosts. Congratulations to the Lionesses! Take a look at our dedicated content for the tournament.
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Health, Sports & Psychology
Promoting the effective management of children’s pain
This free course will focus on the promotion of effective management of children’s pain, through the use of a pain management framework. The information presented will enable you to gain knowledge and insight into evidence-based practice, in relation to delivering effective pain management for children.
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Health, Sports & Psychology
Critically exploring psychology
This free course introduces you to critical thinking as a tool for psychology. As you work your way through the course you will learn what critical thinking is, and why it is important to use in the study of psychology. In particular, it will help you to think about how to use it when doing independent research. This OpenLearn course is an...
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Society, Politics & Law
Recording women's experiences and resilience during Covid-19
For International Women's Day 2021, the Educational Institute of Scotland (EIS) recorded the experiences of women during Covid-19
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Education & Development
Why riot? Community, choices, aspirations
This free course was made in the summer of 2021 in the aftermath of street disturbances in working class areas of Northern Ireland. It was produced with young people from Belfast and local community activists, for young people aged 14+. The course aims to help young people think about what community means to them; to identify issues they are...
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Languages
"I was so depressed yesterday..." - or were you?
Using phrases relating to mental health to add drama to your conversation can have unintended consequences, warns Zsofia Demjen.
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Health, Sports & Psychology
Issues in women's health in relation to sport and fitness
Explore some themes in women's sport in the following animations.
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Health, Sports & Psychology
Get outdoors and get active
Designed to inspire outdoors activity while you carry on learning, our fun ideas cover a range of subjects from nature, psychology and astronomy, to health and wellbeing. Take a digital detox from screens and notifications with OpenLearn.
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Health, Sports & Psychology
Why do female footballers experience knee injuries and what can be done?
A study in 2019 found female footballers had more than double the incidence rate of an Anterior Cruciate Ligament (ACL) injury compared to male football players. Nigel Wright looks at the reasons behind this.
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Education & Development
Double trouble: my experience of studying part-time as a mixed-race individual
In this article Dr Laura Tan gives a fresh mixed-race perspective on having twice the cultures, twice the workload… so it was only right that she had twice the celebration at graduation!
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Health, Sports & Psychology
Growing the popularity of women’s football in the UK
England's three group games at the 2022 UEFA European Championships are a sell-out and Alex Twitchen looks at the how women's football in the UK can become even bigger.
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Money & Business
The business of football
This free course, The business of football, was produced by The Open University working in partnership with The English Football League Trust. If you are fascinated by men's and women's football and interested in discovering more about business and management, then this engaging and stimulating course is for you.