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Five ways to mark Menstrual Health Day
Health, Sports & Psychology

Five ways to mark Menstrual Health Day

...social media campaigns (WASH United, 2026b). It is important to note that this day is also known as Menstrual Health Day due to the potential perpetuation of damaging narratives around menstruation being a ‘hygiene’ issue. Therefore, campaigns and activist groups, such as Bloody Good Period (2025), have advocated for reframing the event to move away from a...
Ambridge accents: How The Archers use accent to depict class
Languages

Ambridge accents: How The Archers use accent to depict class

...social stereotypes that we have all grown up with. There is no linguistic reason for an accent to be associated with particular characteristics – we are simply loading the voice with the social baggage it has culturally acquired over generations. What Clarrie sounds like. The Archers is no stranger to the use of stereotypical accents in its construction of the social...
The psychology of conspiracy theories
Health, Sports & Psychology

The psychology of conspiracy theories

...social psychologists have turned their attention to the conspiracy theory phenomenon and scrutinised its psychological roots in a systematic way. Investigating the conspiracy theorist Much psychology research has focused on identifying factors which predispose certain individuals to endorse conspiracy theories. Given that not everyone believes in conspiracy theories,...
The dark side of American populism in the Trump era
Society, Politics & Law

The dark side of American populism in the Trump era

...social and political. The Civil War has been seen as the true American revolution; it pitted a social and political order based on rugged individualistic capitalism against one of plantation economics and strong social hierarchy, including the system of slavery. The southern model was defeated, the slaves emancipated, and Confederate leaders and sympathisers left to mourn...
The sharing economy
Society, Politics & Law

The sharing economy

...social inequality and climate change. This mounting critique of the sharing economy is partly borne out of the frustration that activists, academics and many other citizens feel when they look back at the early 2000s’ euphoria about the capacity of the sharing economy as the ‘third perspective on capitalism and consumerism’ (Heinrichs 2013) to minimise resource use,...
Entrepreneurship – from ideas to reality Badge icon
Money & Business

Entrepreneurship – from ideas to reality

...social enterprise version of Uber’ could work for a community transport scheme – as long as everyone understands the concept of Uber! Activity 2 Listen and learn Timing: Allow about 15 minutes Listen to the following short extract from The Bottom Line (Radio 4 Business programme commissioned by The Open University). In it Evan Davis introduces two teenage...
Professional relationships with young people
Health, Sports & Psychology

Professional relationships with young people

...socially and with staff) or at work? Are they coping or struggling with their academic work at school, or their social relations with fellow students or work colleagues, with teachers or managers? Are they respected or bullied? What resources do they have? What are their main sources of support, financially and emotionally, and how reliable are these supports? What......
Introducing healthcare improvement
Health, Sports & Psychology

Introducing healthcare improvement

...work with social care professionals to offer a joined-up service. This research brief looks at the set of 16 quality improvement pilot studies and determines if they were successful at improving healthcare quality on the whole. Look through the report and consider the three aspects of quality improvement interventions according to Batalden and Davidoff (2007). What does...