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Health, Sports & Psychology
Racial inequities in health: The impact of COVID-19 in Wales and beyond
The ways in which the COVID-19 pandemic has shone a light on long-standing inequities in health within Black and minority ethnic communities in Wales, the UK and beyond.
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Health, Sports & Psychology
Anghydraddoldebau hiliol mewn iechyd: Effaith COVID-19 yng Nghymru a thu hwnt
Y modd y mae COVID-19 wedi taflu goleuni ar anghydraddoldebau hirsefydlog mewn iechyd o fewn cymunedau Du a lleiafrifoedd ethnig yng Nghymru, y DU a thu hwnt.
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The OU Welcomes Carers
Carers face significant challenges combining work and education with caring responsibilities. The Open University helps get carers back into education and this article explains how much support is available.
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Money & Business
MSE’s Academy of Money
The Open University has joined forces with MoneySavingExpert (MSE) to produce this new free course to give you the skills and knowledge to master your finances. Packed with videos, audios, quizzes and activities the course covers all the key aspects of personal finance in six sessions of study that each take around two hours to complete.
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Medicines and personalisation
In a series of articles, Dr Jitka Vseteckova and Sonal Mehta look at strategies to support pharmacotherapy while ageing. Here Sonal explores ways in which we can achieve person-centred care, available to all.
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Health, Sports & Psychology
The Ageing Well Public Talks
Dr Jitka Vseteckova tells us more about the public talks she's giving on the five pillars of ageing well and outlines some free related resources on OpenLearn.
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The real reason clowns scare us
With the release of Stephen King's 'It' and the terrifying character Pennywise we look back on this article, published last year, questioning why we are scared by the faces clowns pull.
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Five ways you can tell if your child is ‘normal’
Just about every parent will have googled this question at some time or another. But how do you know whether your child really is 'normal'? Here are five things to consider…
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Health, Sports & Psychology
A Support Net: Can you help someone in need?
All of us will experience personal challenges, but could you make a positive impact on someone's life? Try our wellbeing interactive 'A Support Net' to see if you can help four people.
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Supporting female performance in sport and fitness
Do you support women’s performance in sport or fitness as a coach or parent? Are you a female athlete who wants to optimise your performance using recent research insights? If so, then this free course is for you. It addresses the problem of sports science research traditionally being male dominated and the assumption that if it works for men ...
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A collection: psychology research students' articles
Have you ever wondered what psychologists do? Discover some of the fascinating research our PhD students in the School of Psychology have been doing in these introductory articles.
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Honour thy vulnerable witnesses
Dionysia Lali looks at developing evidence-based practice to support witnesses on the autistic spectrum when they give evidence to the police.