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Health, Sports & Psychology
After Manchester: How can you help if you know someone affected by a terror attack
People caught in a traumatic event like the Manchester Attack will react in different ways. What should you do to help them? Mark Widdowson has some advice.
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Society, Politics & Law
After Manchester: Can you make venues safer?
The bombing of a crowd leaving a venue can be hard to prevent. David Lowe asks if we need new strategies.
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Health, Sports & Psychology
Learning to swim in murky seas: Exploitation of the Electorate via Social Media
Learn psychological self-defence and start resisting the dark arts of political communication, in Volker Patent’s second article on Brexit and the General Election
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Society, Politics & Law
Why is the media still fascinated by Brady and Hindley's crimes?
Half a century on, the Moors Murders remain a fixed point of fascination and horror for the UK media. Two Manchester-based academics explain why.
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Health, Sports & Psychology
No Pause for Thought? Brexit, Bias and Political Manipulation
The psychology of Brexit and contemporary politics, in a series of articles by Volker Patent. In this first article, we look at how the language of Brexit encourages the formation of political cliques.
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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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Money & Business
What makes people happy at work?
Experts identify what makes workers happy - and why it's important.
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Health, Sports & Psychology
Workshops on gender diversity – helping us move from insults to inclusion.
How can we tackle the bullying of transgender youth in schools? Can workshops on gender diversity help?
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Health, Sports & Psychology
Social work: Effective practice with substance abusing parents
What is like being a social worker? Dr Andy Taylor of The Open University discusses effective practice with substance abusing parents.
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Money & Business
Why do call centre staff use your name all the time, Chris?
Chris, if you've had to deal with a call centre you might have noticed they use your name a lot. Do you know, Chris, why they do this? Well, Chris, The OU's Anna Kristina Hultgren has investigated. Putting you through now, Chris.
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Health, Sports & Psychology
How is Khat adding to the food crisis in Yemen?
Yemen is already suffering from conflict. Now, in the chaos, khat farming is growing - redirecting resources from much-needed food production.
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Health, Sports & Psychology
Can high blood pressure protect the over-80s from dementia?
New research apparently contradicts what we thought we knew about blood pressure and dementia. Cheryl Hawkes explains why we might all want to stick in the Goldilocks Zone.