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Are you a socially intelligent educational leader?
Education & Development

Are you a socially intelligent educational leader?

...Business Review, 86(9), pp. 74–81. Available at https://libezproxy.open.ac.uk/login?url=https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=bth&AN=33983120&site=ehost-live&scope=site (Accessed: 11 July 2023). Kao, J. (2020) These six intelligences will drive smart leadership in disrupted times. Available at
From dreams to reality: becoming a nurse and educator
Health, Sports & Psychology

From dreams to reality: becoming a nurse and educator

...busy our lives were. Like me, she was a single mum who was working full-time and studying. She explained how every teacher described me as being ‘a lovely, kind and well-behaved little girl’ but how I was ‘not an academic’. School was a massive challenge, and I didn’t really understand what was going on. I had no confidence and became withdrawn and shy. I still...
How can the arts improve health and wellbeing?
History & The Arts

How can the arts improve health and wellbeing?

...busy lives, many of us are also more and more aware of the importance of ‘down time’, time to be creative, or to follow our passions. The power of the arts to influence our lives for good or bad has been recognised for centuries, and arts therapies form an important part of treatment for a wide range of physical and mental health conditions. More broadly, the arts can...
The arts in Participatory Action Research
Health, Sports & Psychology

The arts in Participatory Action Research

...business. [Words of encouragement in a tool box]The process of creating artwork and digital narratives also enabled a sense of community, improved communication, and the sharing of important information. As they viewed each other’s pictures, toolbox contents and listened to poems, the women in our project learned how others coped with domestic violence. They realised...
The women of the Gorbals’ Campaign for Social Justice, 1923
Society, Politics & Law

The women of the Gorbals’ Campaign for Social Justice, 1923

...busy and too ‘trachled’ [tired from over work] to pay attention to Lily’s comings and goings”. For Lily’s supporters, she was vulnerable to the assurances of the older men that they were single, when both were married. As Buchanan explained, realising the second man’s deception led to a “madness” that contributed to Lily’s crime (The Weekly News, 3 March...
The benefits of mindfulness and five common myths surrounding it
Health, Sports & Psychology

The benefits of mindfulness and five common myths surrounding it

...busy lifestyles. It does not need to be time-consuming either, even just a few minutes of mindfulness exercises every day should help you feel more settled or better able to be in the moment. Mindfulness is not about controlling your thoughts or being happy all the time – mindfulness is a way to experience all thoughts and experiences, both positive and negative, so it...
Does fiction make people more empathic and is that a good thing?
History & The Arts

Does fiction make people more empathic and is that a good thing?

...business (Nettle, 2005). The idea that fiction engagement might be adaptive, functioning to support empathic skills or buffer against a lack of real-world social contact has generated research and public interest over the past decade or so. In 2013, a series of experiments by researchers Daniel Comer Kidd and Emmanuel Castano (2013) were published in the influential...
Introduction to number theory
Science, Maths & Technology

Introduction to number theory

...busy. Another famous conjecture that you may well have heard of, Fermat’s last theorem, wasn’t proved until fairly recently, in 1994. Section 1 introduces you to Euclid’s algorithm, which is used to find the HCF of two integers, and introduces the idea of congruences, which are mathematical statements used to compare remainders when two integers are each divided by...
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