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‘Making Food Allergies Your Business’ Podcast Series on safer dining
Health, Sports & Psychology

‘Making Food Allergies Your Business’ Podcast Series on safer dining

...social freedoms such as eating out of the home...While food allergies were once thought to be more common in children, they are now more prevalent in adults. With 1 in 20 adults in the UK with a confirmed food allergy (Food Standards Agency 2024), we hear from the food allergy community what they would like businesses to do to create more inclusive and safer dining...
Archive course extract: Attachment theory
Education & Development

Archive course extract: Attachment theory

...social self as internal working model’, in Gunnar, M. R. and Sroufe, L. A. (eds), Self process and development: Minnesota symposia on child psychology, vol. 23, pp. 1-41, Hillsdale, NJ, Lawrence Erlbaum Associates. Bretherton, I. (1993) ‘From dialogue to internal working models: The co-construction of self relationships’, in Nelson, C. A. (ed) Memory and affect in...
Human resources: recruitment and selection
Money & Business

Human resources: recruitment and selection

...social skills □ Required attitude or general approach to the work involved Check 5 – What are the working conditions? □ The physical environment □ The social conditions and work group context □ The economic conditions including funding and pay Check 6 – Who should be consulted about the analysis? □ Check back with the job holder □ Check back with his or...
The rural dimension – rundale in the West of Ireland
OpenLearn Ireland

The rural dimension – rundale in the West of Ireland

...social, the environmental and the spatial. A combination of factors within society and environment such as soils and climate, cultural forms, local social organisation and the wider economic and political context, both national and international, are drawn together in change over time. The present rural landscape in the West of Ireland is a mosaic of small fields, small...
The Bottom Line Expert Opinion: Financial Engineering
Money & Business

The Bottom Line Expert Opinion: Financial Engineering

...social impact that extends beyond businesses and the market. Established assumptions about the economy and the free market would dramatically challenged. Is it safe or positive to have so much of the economy revolve around the financial sector? These events call for a potential transformation of how economics and business studies are taught. Atul Shah discusses these...
Effective communication in the workplace Badge icon
Money & Business

Effective communication in the workplace

...worked socially with friends may not be appropriate in the workplace. Consider who you will be talking to – what might their expectations be? A key starting point is to establish the purpose of the communication. For example, explaining a technical process might require a different communication style to mediating an argument between disgruntled colleagues. Activity 3...
Using digital tools in teaching
Education & Development

Using digital tools in teaching

...social media, and virtual and augmented reality in pedagogy...Find out about The Open University's Open degree How can social media be used in a positive way in an academic setting? How can digital tools be used to engage students? How can podcasts be shared for teaching purposes? Explore these questions and more in the three short animations and associated article below....
Opening up history: teaching transatlantic slavery in British schools
History & The Arts

Opening up history: teaching transatlantic slavery in British schools

...social, cultural, political and economic afterlives of slavery within the present. I find the way that this history connects people, places, and ideas over time fascinating – it gives meaning to the work, even if that meaning can sometimes be difficult and complicated to grapple with. 4. What is your research project about? My most recent project focuses on the teaching...