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Camille Parmesan - Stories of Change
Nature & Environment

Camille Parmesan - Stories of Change

...Public Understanding of Oceans and Human Health. © ​ The Open University Transcript Stories of Change Project Camille Parmesan interview Key RH: = Roger Harrabin, Interviewer CP: = Camille Parmesan, Professor, Oceans and Climate Change, Participant RH: OK Camille Parmesan, can you start with telling me how we’ve underestimated things? CP: Well, in past reports, past...
Sut mae rheoli straen ddigidol technoleg
Health, Sports & Psychology

Sut mae rheoli straen ddigidol technoleg

...publications. https://www.ofcom.org.uk/about-ofcom/latest/media/facts (accessed 18/5/2018) Seabrook, E. M., Kern, M. L., & Rickard, N. S. (2016). Social networking sites, depression, and anxiety: a systematic review. JMIR mental health, 3(4), e50 Seo, H.S., Jeong, E., Sungwon, C., Kwon, Y., Park, H. & Kim, Inseong (2017) Neurotransmitters in Young People with Internet and...
Ade Thomas - Earth in Vision
Nature & Environment

Ade Thomas - Earth in Vision

...health example In terms of the democratisation of knowledge, I mean to step aside from conservation and sustainability issues for a while and look at health, I mean health I think is the interesting high watermark of all this, people now perhaps understand more about their own health, their own medical issues than perhaps their GP does. So people now will go to their GP...
Can talking two languages keep your brain healthy?
Languages

Can talking two languages keep your brain healthy?

...health benefits from speaking more than one language, including faster stroke recovery and delayed onset of dementia. Could it be that the human brain evolved to be multilingual – that those who speak only one language are not exploiting their full potential? And in a world that is losing languages faster than ever – at the current rate of one a fortnight, half our...
Hadrian's Rome
History & The Arts

Hadrian's Rome

...public buildings could be used by an emperor to help legitimise his position as successor to the previous princeps. The Pantheon had earlier phases and later restorations; the Temple of Deified Hadrian was built by his successor, Antoninus Pius; and the Temple of Venus and Rome was rebuilt in the early fourth century CE by one of Rome’s last emperors, Maxentius...
Level 3: Advanced 10 hrs
Migration 2018: What's currently happening?
Society, Politics & Law

Migration 2018: What's currently happening?

...health point of view), arrived in Valencia few hours later (around 1100h). The third ship was the Italian naval vessel “Orion” with 250people on board. According to the information provided by the Spanish Ministry of Interior, there were 26 different nationalities on board. The 10 main nationalities were from Sudan, Nigeria, Eritrea, South Sudan, Algeria, Ghana,...
Seeing institutions in different ways
Society, Politics & Law

Seeing institutions in different ways

...public agencies: the health authority and the local authority social services department. That was where, it seemed, the power resided. This needs to be qualified. The public agencies had the power of, amongst other things, funding and their statutory authority. But some civil society organisations had themselves become big players, particularly those which had both a...
Managing my money
Money & Business

Managing my money

...public services such as the National Health Service (NHS). Second, the UK’s tax and state benefits system also has the effect of some redistribution of income – some of the taxes raised collectively are transferred back to individuals and households. Of course, the people receiving benefits will often be different from those paying taxes such as Income Tax, but many...
Level 1: Introductory 24 hrs