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Cannabis, Consciousness and the Imagination
Health, Sports & Psychology

Cannabis, Consciousness and the Imagination

...Psychology... Cannabis, consciousness and the imagination A short introduction to this album. Cannabis and consciousness Examining the affect of smoking cannabis on driving. How cannabis affects your body A look at an experiment that compares physiological and mental affects of cannabis. Experimenting with simulators Watching a cannabis smoker drive a car. What is...
Am I Normal? - an inaugural lecture by Professor Blaine Price
Miscellaneous

Am I Normal? - an inaugural lecture by Professor Blaine Price

...Forensics teaching programme. He also supervises PhD students in the areas of privacy, ubiquitous and wearable computing emphasising medical and health applications of these technologies. In Am I Normal? Blaine will consider the benefits of collecting data about yourself and demonstrate devices that can measure and monitor individual health histories. He will also discuss...
Developing resilience in sport
Health, Sports & Psychology

Developing resilience in sport

...psychological perspective....Session 1: Understanding resilience: Introduction - [Image of men and women helping each other to climb over a mud barrier in a challenge race] A Japanese proverb ‘Fall seven times, stand up eight’ effectively captures the essence of psychological resilience. We know that athletes will face highs and lows and will constantly withstand a...
Level 2: Intermediate 10 hrs
Critical criminology and the social sciences
Society, Politics & Law

Critical criminology and the social sciences

...psychology, law, sociology and critical criminology. Using the global financial crisis of 2007-8 as a case study, the course will then provide you with an insight into how academics working in some of these different disciplinary backgrounds make sense of a similar topic in different ways. The course will conclude by considering the place of critical criminology within...
Take away Science
History & The Arts

Take away Science

...forensic science In this podcast we catch up with Professor Kathy Sykes at the 2008 Cheltenham Science Festival and find out about her heroine of science; we meet Dr Christine Heading, an OU Associate Lecturer, who has been awarded a Royal Pharmaceutical Society for her work with women; and chat to the OU’s Professor Bassindale about our new course in Forensic Science....
Audio 3 hrs 50 mins
Workplace Survivor Syndrome
Health, Sports & Psychology

Workplace Survivor Syndrome

...psychology of this...When organisations ‘let people go’, the ‘lucky ones’ left behind can be affected in a profound way, often referred to as survivor guilt. Survivor guilt has been well researched in terms of people experiencing a traumatic event or a loss in their lives. Organisational psychologists have also noticed that this occurs within organisations when...
Pharmacotherapy while ageing
Health, Sports & Psychology

Pharmacotherapy while ageing

...psychology/health/the-ageing-well-public-talks Vseteckova J (2020) How to age well, while self-isolating https://www.open.edu/openlearn/health-sports-psychology/how-age-well-while-self-isolating Vseteckova J, (2020) ANIMATION - Keeping healthy in Self Isolation https://youtu.be/M9yUC-MUugA Methley A & Vseteckova J & Jones K (2020) Green & Blue & Outdoor spaces...
Managing Relationships and Work
Health, Sports & Psychology

Managing Relationships and Work

...Psychology to Work hub has been designed to help you understand your workplace relationships. It provides you with skills, tools, resources and short courses to manage and maintain healthy and sustaining professional relationships with your colleagues. ...Workplace relationships A relationship is the connection or association between two things or people. Key...