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Narratives of COVID
Health, Sports & Psychology

Narratives of COVID

...Health and Social Care qualification. These have been collated into a book – Narratives of COVID: loss, dying, death and grief during COVID-19 with over 30 authors from the OU contributing. The book includes essays, poems, and reflections to document a powerful reflection of the impact of COVID on individuals and wider society. This film shares three of the narratives...
What is Alzheimer's disease?
Health, Sports & Psychology

What is Alzheimer's disease?

...treatment to alleviate or reduce the damaging effects of this disease. Various treatments and preventive measures are being investigated, including the use of hormone replacement therapy, vaccines, and substances that aim to break down the protein deposits in the brain. Extracted from The Open University course Understanding Health. You might also be interested in:...
Stay connected: supporting people with learning disabilities to use technology
Health, Sports & Psychology

Stay connected: supporting people with learning disabilities to use technology

...health and feel better in myself as well. Building belief in the potential for successful technology use Transcript. I have learnt to use my emails and Zoom and also learnt how to use my touch screen and how to go to different things on the telephone and choose what I need. Teaching people with learning disabilities how to use their learning technologies Transcript. We...
What were Victorian pauper's graves like?
History & The Arts

What were Victorian pauper's graves like?

...health. Mr Townley, a respectable tradesman residing close to the church, complained of the practice adopted in the churchyard, which he said was most distressing to the sight and injurious to the health of the inhabitants of that crowded neighbourhood, and he hoped something would be done about it. Mr Tyars, the deputy of the ward, and who is also churchwarden, said that...
The science of sleep
Health, Sports & Psychology

The science of sleep

...health problems and increase the chances of having an accident. For example, the Department for Transport reports that nearly four hundred deaths per year are caused by tired drivers. In fact driving while tired has been shown to be as much of a danger as driving when drunk. My driving certainly got worse following three sleepless days. Even if you avoid the car, sleep...
Partnerships and networks in work with young people
Health, Sports & Psychology

Partnerships and networks in work with young people

...health, regeneration, and crime and disorder. Partnership working became ‘the new language of public governance’ (Sullivan and Skelcher, 2002, p. 1). Partnership was a central theme in government approaches to work with young people, and work with children, young people and families more broadly, both at the level of policy coming from Westminster and within policy...
Film: Creative or Cultural?
Money & Business

Film: Creative or Cultural?

...public good contribution of culture. Importantly, the UK’s “knowledge economy” approach contrasts strongly with the definitions of cultural goods and services and of cultural industries proposed by UNESCO (2005). These combine the concepts of creativity and intellectual property with a strong emphasis on the importance of symbolic meaning, which means that they...
'Good' food destroying biodiversity?
Nature & Environment

'Good' food destroying biodiversity?

...public has resulted in improved appreciation of the value of ecosystem services. There have been many examples of initiatives that attempt to value ecosystems services. From the famous applied example of the Catskills Watershed Corporation supplying New York City’s water, to smaller initiatives aimed on Biodiversity and Wine Initiative’s of South Africa; to policies...