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The lifelong political engagement of the Silent Generation
Health, Sports & Psychology

The lifelong political engagement of the Silent Generation

...communities or more widely in society. The referendum outcome in 2016 led some of them to go on their first protest marches against the decision. They are politically engaged and active and feel a strong sense of obligation to keep up the effort to make the world a better place for their grandchildren. Importantly, they are resistant to nostalgic rhetoric that has been...
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Green care: contact with nature can improve mental health
Health, Sports & Psychology

Green care: contact with nature can improve mental health

...community’. So it is interesting that we now seem to have come full circle with the benefits of working outdoors being increasingly recognised by researchers. The time may be right to promote ‘green care’ to health commissioners and practitioners concerned to find more ways of helping vulnerable individuals, whilst perhaps more widely we will find public health...
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Open Talks - Wales: Music Nation
History & The Arts

Open Talks - Wales: Music Nation

...community. In this OpenTalk, DJ and presenter Huw Stephens discusses Wales’ musical history and culture with OU academics...Find out more about The Open University’s music courses  Wales: Music Nation was an OU / BBC Cymru Wales co-production presented by Huw Stephens that aired in October 2022. In this Open Talk, Huw, producer Ian Michael Jones and the OU...
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Not intervening as a form of care
Health, Sports & Psychology

Not intervening as a form of care

...community who look after people who are dying or living with serious illness. These teams are frequently brought in when other medical specialists feel there is “nothing more” they can offer, especially when the patient is nearing the end of their life. This can be difficult for the palliative care staff who know they can offer much more to the patient. There was a...
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Access courses
Education & Development

Access courses

...award. Later this year we will also release a similar module which recognises previous learning gained through the experience of work or volunteering. Initiatives for priority groups The OU offers a number of bursary and scholarship programmes to priority groups or communities such as Carers or Disabled Military Veterans. Learn new skills to help you with finding work...
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What is technology?
Science, Maths & Technology

What is technology?

...communicating, designing, developing, innovating, managing, manufacturing, modelling, and systems thinking. But technology also gives us various products which can be used for good or ill or where the benefits are disputed and similarly the processes involved in producing and using technology means that we should all take an interest in whether it provides us and everyone...
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Milton Keynes: energy capital of the UK?
Nature & Environment

Milton Keynes: energy capital of the UK?

...communicated to prospective private house developers in two major exhibitions of low energy designs: HomeWorld (1981) and Energy World (1986). I remember very fondly how a new intellectual door opened for me when I first read a copy of Jake’s best-selling Penguin book Fuel’s Paradise during my PhD research at the Cambridge Energy Research Group. In one way or another...
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Larry Achiampong – Challenging Colonial Narratives with Art
History & The Arts

Larry Achiampong – Challenging Colonial Narratives with Art

...core message of my book If It Don't Exist, Build It. I look forward to continuing to engage with those organisations and communities that foster alternative spaces of education, as the discussions and ideas generated help drive my practice and without which, I might not be where I am today. Head over to MK Gallery to find out more about their latest news and exhibitions....
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