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Outdoor Therapy: The Benefits of Walking and Talking
Health, Sports & Psychology

Outdoor Therapy: The Benefits of Walking and Talking

...research further we recommend following the link to a review of studies on this topic by Dr Sam Cooley (2020) who identified 38 articles on talking therapy in nature-based settings. Our team are also contributing to this literature by reviewing the available outdoor therapy interventions for older adults who have experienced traumatic events and we hope to be able to...
Advance Care Planning (ACP ) - Discuss, Decide, Document and Share
Health, Sports & Psychology

Advance Care Planning (ACP ) - Discuss, Decide, Document and Share

...Research in England indicates that when someone has had an advance care plan in place at the time of death, the bereaved were more likely to rate their end-of-life care as excellent or outstanding (DIxon, King and Knapp, 2019). There are many types of topics that can be covered during advance care planning, including but not limited to: what kinds of treatment someone...
Supporting sustainable and responsible space exploration
Science, Maths & Technology

Supporting sustainable and responsible space exploration

...researchers, industry, commercial businesses, space agencies and more. My current work at Astrobiology OU aims to strike the right balance between industry’s need for agile and cost-effective processes for building spacecraft and rovers and scientists’ desires to conduct meaningful, state-of-the-art, astrobiology experiments. [The ExoMars - Rosalind Franklin - Rover...
Autumn Statement 2016: Tories shift to growth strategy in an Ed Balls-style pirouette
Society, Politics & Law

Autumn Statement 2016: Tories shift to growth strategy in an Ed Balls-style pirouette

...research and development, aimed at making those already in work more productive. George Osborne did something similar. Following the failure of austerity and a dip back into recession in 2011-12, he quietly reinstated several of the initially-suspended infrastructure programmes. Hammond has signalled an intention to go much further with an extra £23 billion to be...
Banking crimes without end
Society, Politics & Law

Banking crimes without end

...research to investors to drum up business and higher fees – just to mention a few of their misdeeds’. If apparently esoteric, and not widely understood, none of these are victimless crimes. For example, the effect of manipulating the LIBOR was to increase the cost of personal, business and state borrowing across the board – thus placing a premium on everything from...
From curing to caring? Exploring the role of spiritual healing in a biomedical world
Health, Sports & Psychology

From curing to caring? Exploring the role of spiritual healing in a biomedical world

...Research conducted at The Open University revealed that it is not just patients who are choosing the healing touch. Health practitioners too attend weekly healing services at Spiritualist churches, not because they are practicing Spiritualists, but because it makes them feel better and more able to cope in high-pressure roles. Though hands-on healing is a core part of...
Will the next Secretary-General of the United Nations be a woman?
Society, Politics & Law

Will the next Secretary-General of the United Nations be a woman?

...researchers have shown, women make up 21% of ambassadors and permanent representatives, but these percentages drop significantly, from 53% in Canada to 0.75% in Russia and 0% in Belarus, Fiji, North Korea and Togo. On a more practical level, women require mentorship and should be given the chance to manage their work-life balance effectively. Though women candidates must...
Feeling Stuck in your Job or Career? The ACT Matrix may be the Tool you Need
Health, Sports & Psychology

Feeling Stuck in your Job or Career? The ACT Matrix may be the Tool you Need

...research evidence gathered that supports ACT as beneficial and effective (APA Presidential Task Force on Evidence-Based Practice in Psychology, 2006). Russ Harris (see below) and others have also actively promoted ACT as being valid not only in clinical and therapy settings, but also within the workplace and personal life (Harris, 2006). Although ACT has the word...