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Navigating Relationship Sex Education (RSE)
Education & Development

Navigating Relationship Sex Education (RSE)

...changes in law and policy, as well as keeping updated on issues which continue to be debated in parliament; particularly relationships education. The discussion of goals naturally led to considering the reality of navigating RSE in each context. This included consideration of practitioner confidence, parents’ and carers’ expectations, finding time and space in an...
Rare diseases are important too: Investigating Idiopatic Intracranial Hypertension (IIH)
Science, Maths & Technology

Rare diseases are important too: Investigating Idiopatic Intracranial Hypertension (IIH)

...how these differences affect CSF secretion and drainage. Future impact Being able to link a hormonal change with an increase of CSF inside the skull can open new paths for research, which would eventually lead to finding new therapies that can remarkably increase the quality of life of IIH patients. To learn more about IIH please visit IIH UK web page. More on the brain...
What kind of Democrat are you?
Health, Sports & Psychology

What kind of Democrat are you?

...changes without using our MPs or other representatives. In short, we can engage in direct democracy. We can use on-line social media profiles, hashtags and offline we can create marches, sign e-petitions, and join social movements. With these new powers, come new challenges in the face of mobilisation towards political extremes, hate speech and polarisation. The OppAttune...
Nanotechnology: Good things come in small packages
Science, Maths & Technology

Nanotechnology: Good things come in small packages

...changed dramatically over the last 20 years because of it. OU PhD student, Konstantina Nadia Tzelepi, discusses nanotechnology, the study of very small things at a nanoscale...Applications of nanotechnology in cancer Nanotechnology is used in a range of science disciplines, from biology, chemistry to engineering, physics and material sciences. Its application in medicine...
Digital technologies and innovation in health and social care
Health, Sports & Psychology

Digital technologies and innovation in health and social care

...changes the expectations and job roles for health and social care practitioners. You'll learn about what these expectations might be on practitioners and also about common responses and criticisms that may arise from transforming practice through technology. These free courses are adapted extracts from the Open University course K102 Introducing health and social care....
What is economics?
Society, Politics & Law

What is economics?

...changes happen. It’s about how money is made and lost, used and misused. From private funding for new schools and hospitals to the level of house prices in your town, the success of large corporates involved in takeover bids for other companies – economics has something to say about all of these. But economics isn’t just about money and it isn’t just about the...
Understanding Cities
Society, Politics & Law

Understanding Cities

...Changing concerns and structures. Governance and Privatisation The promotion of private sector governance in developing countries, and the problems that can arise with communities. Shared agendas as a possible solution. Growth Agendas The development of brownfields sites in terms of growth, using East London as an example,. The victims of such development and the...
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Diverse Perspectives on Mental Health
Health, Sports & Psychology

Diverse Perspectives on Mental Health

...change Mental health service users reflect on the positive aspects of their experiences and question the attitudes of broader society to their illness. Expertise through Experience Special knowledge and skills that can result from the process of recovery from mental illness. Lessons for Practitioners Could service users' expertise be harnessed to develop better services...