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Health, Sports & Psychology
Are you a secret hoarder?
Collector or hoarder: How can we define a healthy relationship to personal possessions?
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Health, Sports & Psychology
Are you a super recogniser?
Police super-recognisers have an above average ability to recognise faces and have identified a large number of criminals via CCTV footage. Do you possess the skill? Try our quiz to find out.
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Health, Sports & Psychology
Demystifying Chronic Kidney Disease: what is it and who is at risk?
The 9th March is World Kidney Day, a campaign to help raise awareness on the importance of our kidneys. This article seeks to explain what is meant by Chronic Kidney Disease, common risk factors and recommended strategies to aid in the early detection and management of this condition.
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Health, Sports & Psychology
Narratives of COVID
The Pandemic has brought losses, death, and changes to everyday life on a global scale. At The Open University, we reached out to students, staff and alumni to hear about their experiences.
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Health, Sports & Psychology
Ambitions for Palliative and End of Life Care: making sense of a national framework for local action
The Ambitions for Palliative and End of Life Care seeks to help transform end of life care across the country. A research team from The Open University set out to explore how people make sense of and use this document in their practice.
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Health, Sports & Psychology
Kickstart your health and fitness with OpenLearn
Many of us are keen to improve our health and fitness but sometimes we need a bit of help and inspiration. It's easy to put off making changes in lifestyle when you don't know how to take those important first steps to a better diet and exercise. So we've compiled some free courses and articles to inform and motivate you.
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Health, Sports & Psychology
Learn to live well with self-care on OpenLearn
Self-care means taking steps to improve your wellbeing. This might include a better diet, more sleep, a new hobby, time with family and friends, finding ways to relax and more physical exercise. We've got some great ideas to help you get started!
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Health, Sports & Psychology
Forgotten families
It is estimated that there are over 200,000 children of prisoners in the UK. What is the potential impact of parental imprisonment and what support is available?
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Health, Sports & Psychology
Blue Monday: An OpenLearn reading list
Blue chat for a blue day: collecting some thoughts on the marketing wheeze that is Blue Monday.
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Health, Sports & Psychology
Learning while caring
Without the right support carers can find it difficult to access learning while caring. In her interview with Tony Collins-Moore, Dr Nichola Kentzer explores how much can be achieved if the right help is available.
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Science, Maths & Technology
Putting algae and seaweed on the menu could help save our seafood
Sticking with our traditional salmon and tuna diet isn’t sustainable, Pallavi Anand and Daniela Schmidt explain why eating algae could expand our seafood menu.
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Health, Sports & Psychology
Past and present: A 50-year celebration of British Sportswomen
Jessica Pinchbeck, a Senior Lecturer in Sport and Fitness at The Open University, reflects on her sporting heroes and charts the success of female sportswomen.