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A Peace of Us - The Good Friday Agreement Podcast
OpenLearn Ireland

A Peace of Us - The Good Friday Agreement Podcast

...based in Belfast, Northern Ireland. She is a graduate of The Open University and Queens University, with a Masters degree in Creative Writing (screenwriting) – Distinction. Leesa has written and produced multiple plays, which have been produced in the UK, Ireland and Australia. She has written a radio comedy pilot, which was produced by BBC Northern Ireland and she has...
Why are maggots making a comeback in hospitals?
Health, Sports & Psychology

Why are maggots making a comeback in hospitals?

...base layer of collagen upon which wound healing is built, which in turn impedes the formation of new blood vessels. As a result, some of the cells around the wound begin to die, making the wound even larger and harder to repair. With the wound open and unhealed, bacteria move in. Even when this doesn’t result in an overt infection, a thin layer of bacteria can create a...
Exercise and mental health
Health, Sports & Psychology

Exercise and mental health

...based health service. So what evidence is there for exercise improving mental health for different conditions? Let me first start by looking at exercise and the treatment for depression. Many studies have been conducted on the effects of physical activity and depression, not quite so many on people with defined clinical levels of depression, but in those studies that...
Level 2: Intermediate 2 hrs
Managing my money
Money & Business

Managing my money

...based JSA and income-based JSA *. Income Support * is a means-tested benefit paid to certain groups of people who do not have enough money to live on. Employment and Support Allowance (ESA) is for people who cannot work because of illness or disability. It is split into contribution-based ESA and income-related ESA * which is a means-tested benefit. Personal Independence...
Level 1: Introductory 24 hrs
‘Land grab’: an environmental issue?
Nature & Environment

‘Land grab’: an environmental issue?

...based in Cambridgeshire, has hands-on experience of these recent changes. BEN TAYLOR: When I started practice seven years ago, back in 2005, the land market was at around about 3000 pounds an acre for a bit of arable land in where we are now in East Anglia. You could now put that at about 8000 pounds an acre. At the moment, around about 20 per cent of the buyers of...
Public health approaches to infectious disease
Science, Maths & Technology

Public health approaches to infectious disease

...based public health campaigns to prevent, treat or control infections, illustrated by a video of a unique rural health programme in Ethiopia and a case study of how guinea worm disease has been brought to the brink of global eradication the challenges that must be overcome in order to make further progress in reducing the burden of infectious disease and meeting the...
Take your teaching online Badge icon
Education & Development

Take your teaching online

...based online primary and secondary school. I personally within the system teach ITCSE English and do some private tutoring as well. And there's talk of my teaching developing and expanding, and I'll be teaching A-level English shortly as well. The particular institution I work for uses a system of synchronous lessons. So the students log in at the same time as I do, and...
Level 2: Intermediate 24 hrs
Youth justice in the UK: children, young people and crime Badge icon
Education & Development

Youth justice in the UK: children, young people and crime

...based on the information in the article. Discussion Much has changed in youth justice since 2010 and the numbers of young people in custody have fallen from the high point of over 3,000 to fewer than 900 (YJB, 2019). Although Juliet Lyon would be pleased to see this reduction in numbers, it is a reduction that has not been equally experienced by all ethnic groups. The...