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How can the Hajj be made safer?
History & The Arts

How can the Hajj be made safer?

...psychology of crowds help to make future pilgrimages safer for everyone?...The crowd crush at the annual Hajj pilgrimage in Saudi Arabia has claimed the lives of more than 700 people and injured at least 850 more. Sadly this is not the first such tragedy to affect the event. The Hajj attracts millions of pilgrims from across the world every year and involves several...
What's in your toolbox?
Health, Sports & Psychology

What's in your toolbox?

Psychological flexibility is a Swiss army knife in uncertain times..."If you only have a hammer all your problems look like nails." This quote, also known as ‘The Law of the instrument’ highlights an essential aspect of problem-solving. If there are insufficient tools available to solve problems, this shapes how problems are perceived and how much flexibility there is...
Women in sport: insights from gold medallists
Health, Sports & Psychology

Women in sport: insights from gold medallists

...psychological impact of the various injuries she has experienced during her career. Transcript In this video, 2016 Olympic hockey champion Helen Richardson-Walsh talks about the psychological strategies she used to aid her recovery from injury. Transcript 2016 Olympic hockey gold medallist Alex Danson discusses the various influences on her sporting career and considers...
Methods in Motion: An emerging politics of Brexit
Society, Politics & Law

Methods in Motion: An emerging politics of Brexit

...Psychological Society (BPS). The seminars explore how citizenship is reconfigured in the era of Brexit using insights from social psychology and other social sciences. In a previous contribution to the MiM blog, I considered the value of developing a social psychology of citizenship. In that post, I suggested that the specific contribution of social psychology is to...
The benefits of outdoor green and blue spaces
Health, Sports & Psychology

The benefits of outdoor green and blue spaces

...psychological needs that can be stressful, and it is well established that carers sometimes do not prioritise their own physical and emotional needs. One of the key ways of maintaining wellbeing is having the opportunity to leave the house and spend time outdoors, ideally while doing a little exercise as well. A lot is known about the benefits of exercising on our mood,...
The Colour of Success: Can uniform colour impact on team success?
Health, Sports & Psychology

The Colour of Success: Can uniform colour impact on team success?

...psychological properties and can have a strong impact on our emotional feelings. (Hemphill, 1996; Wright n.d). For example, Red is viewed as a powerful and physical colour, masculine in nature that can stimulate and raise pulse while also carrying with it negative links to defiance and aggression. Blue on the other hand is viewed as the colour of the mind and with that...
Investigating addiction
Science, Maths & Technology

Investigating addiction

...psychology and biology of addiction by subjecting a recovering alcoholic and his sister, a non-addict, to a range of physiological, psychological and genetic studies. The results raise interesting questions about brain patterns underlying addictions, and how addiction should be treated. This material forms part of The Open University course SD805 Issues in brain and...
Riddle of the Tay Bridge disaster
Science, Maths & Technology

Riddle of the Tay Bridge disaster

...Forensic Engineering Dr Pete Lewis explains how he believes the dynamic effects of vibration and the inappropriate use of cast iron, caused fatigue to the Tay Bridge and were responsible for its collapse. The Hatfield accident Professor Roderick Smith explains the cause of the Hatfield accident while others look at how the flaws of the Tay Bridge are still used as lessons...