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Life behind a mask
Health, Sports & Psychology

Life behind a mask

...health, emotional state, personality traits, pleasure or pain. When talking, we rely on reading facial expressions particularly when we don’t understand the verbal language and this may be one of the reasons that some people do not like wearing masks. It is possible that a greater array of multi-modal resources will be used beyond the eyes in ways in which they are...
Why the Applying Psychology to Work hub was created
Health, Sports & Psychology

Why the Applying Psychology to Work hub was created

...health, wellbeing or communications problems impacted by COVID-19. A review of material already available on OpenLearn highlighted plenty of resources that could help address the considerable workplace changes, plus mental and emotional consequences, from the cataclysmic experience of a sequence of pandemic lockdowns. [Woman working at laptop in a mask] What can Applied...
Ten tips for students starting university
Education & Development

Ten tips for students starting university

...meals [Four lunchboxes with healthy food] It’s easy to order duck pancakes from the sofa or grab a kebab on the way home from a night out, but healthy eating will impact your overall health and wellbeing. Learn more about nutrition and the science behind it with this free course... The science of nutrition and healthy eating 3: Manage your time more effectively...
What is heritage?
History & The Arts

What is heritage?

...publications, print advertisements, billboards, workplaces, newspapers, state-funded schools and commercial contracts. We might also think of the suggestion by French president Nicolas Sarkozy (president 2007–) in 2008 that the correct methods for preparing classic items of French cuisine might be considered for protection as part of the UNESCO World Heritage List. At...
Level 1: Introductory 10 hrs
Personality: A user guide
Health, Sports & Psychology

Personality: A user guide

...health, your sexual promiscuity, your likelihood of divorce, how happy you typically are – even your taste in paintings. Personality is a much better predictor of these things than social class or age. The origin of these differences is in part innate. That is to say, when people are adopted at birth and brought up by new families, their personalities are more similar...
United We Will Swim: Women’s Role in The Struggle to Save Glasgow’s Govanhill Pool
Society, Politics & Law

United We Will Swim: Women’s Role in The Struggle to Save Glasgow’s Govanhill Pool

...Health Centre who attended the pool twice weekly for over 30 year with her disabled best friend, Margaret, a wheelchair user who enjoyed the easy access to the main pool and showers; Nessa Mechan, the local “provy wummin” and popular local campaigner who knew first hand that ordinary people did not have the means or ability to travel miles to an alternative facility;...
The many guises of the emperor Augustus
History & The Arts

The many guises of the emperor Augustus

...public relations, in which portraiture and imagery played a key role. This allowed him to represent himself in a range of guises to appeal to as many people as possible. Dress can be an important tool for portraying oneself in a particular way, in the Roman period just as it is now, and it is largely through dress that Augustus was able to create his various guises. He...
History of reading tutorial 1: Finding evidence of reading in the past
History & The Arts

History of reading tutorial 1: Finding evidence of reading in the past

...public and circulating library borrowing records have been uncovered to demonstrate how often various titles were requested; the contents of private libraries have been catalogued; and even literacy rates have been used to estimate the size of the reading public. This evidence is considered to be ‘hard’ because it is measurable or quantifiable: knowing how many copies...