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The impact of walking and socialising through 5 Ways Café on people living with dementia and their carers: A volunteer’s perspective
Health, Sports & Psychology

The impact of walking and socialising through 5 Ways Café on people living with dementia and their carers: A volunteer’s perspective

...project with The Open University and Park's Trust...The Open University and The Parks Trust have been working together on a joint project ‘The Keepmewalking Programme’ to investigate the barriers and facilitators to walking for people living with dementia and their carers. We were trying to understand what works to keep people with dementia and their carers engaging...
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Article 10 mins
Butetown Carnival: past, present, and future
History & The Arts

Butetown Carnival: past, present, and future

...managed for another year, but the community became disheartened. We found ourselves in competition with other cultural events in Cardiff, that had much more funding, and often overlooked the black artists and performers right on their doorstep. In the end, Carnival just stopped happening. ‘To paint a more positive picture.’ However, six years ago, we decided it needed...
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Article 10 mins
Rural entrepreneurship in Wales
Money & Business

Rural entrepreneurship in Wales

...Introduction - This course considers the issues that are important when starting up or running a small business in a rural environment. Traditional business models apply to running a business in any location. This course will introduce you to some concepts that will help you work out what you want to do with your business idea. It will also ask you to consider the impact...
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Level 1: Introductory 30 hrs
Introducing social care and social work
Health, Sports & Psychology

Introducing social care and social work

...Introduction: Introduction - This free course, Introducing social care and social work, will introduce you to different social care and social work practitioner roles. It will develop your understanding of the context in which social care and social work take place in the United Kingdom (UK). Social work and social care practitioners have a vital role in supporting and...
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Level 1: Introductory 12 hrs
Language is collateral damage in the gig economy
Languages

Language is collateral damage in the gig economy

...managers to avoid words that might make their team sound like employees, David Hann explores how some words have their own agendas...[Deliveroo bike] The Guardian has recently unearthed an internal communication by Deliveroo, the online food delivery company, to its managers which instructs them on the words to use, and not to use, when describing the relationship between...
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Article 5 mins
Addressing health inequalities in greenspaces to age well: Part II diversity and safety
Health, Sports & Psychology

Addressing health inequalities in greenspaces to age well: Part II diversity and safety

...managers of greenspaces, park users and other stakeholders help address health and wellbeing inequalities? ...Background Ageing well need not be expensive nor be exclusive to the selected few. Using greenspaces, we have been examining how to age well, as part of the Open University and MK Parks Trust’s initiative. Unfortunately, health inequalities still abound, and...
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Stories from Vienna: 6 key figures
Languages

Stories from Vienna: 6 key figures

...project. It shows that women don’t just have fewer, they also have much smaller streets named in their honour. 1. Friedrich Zawrel (1929-2015) Friedrich Zawrel never completed formal education. He was picked out during the Nazi regime as one of the “socially undesirable children” and entered into the Nazi euthanasia programme. He was confined to a psychiatric...
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Article 10 mins
Abortion stigma and the workplace
Health, Sports & Psychology

Abortion stigma and the workplace

...project is one of the few studies that explore the experiences of people in paid employment in the UK who have had an abortion in the first six months of pregnancy, as well as those who have had other forms of pregnancy endings like a miscarriage or molar pregnancy (where the fertilised egg does not develop properly). We ran a survey during 2022, attracting 226...
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