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Is Mental Health ‘All in the Mind’?
Health, Sports & Psychology

Is Mental Health ‘All in the Mind’?

...196 pages 129-136. Leach, J. (2015) Improving Mental Health through Social Support: Building Positive and Empowering Relationships. London: Jessica Kingsley. McManus, S., Meltzer, H., Brugha, T., Bebbington, P. and Jenkins, R. (2009) Adult Psychiatric Morbidity in England, 2007: Results of a Household Survey. London: NHS Information Centre for Health and Social Care....
Vitality Netball Nations Cup 2025: can the England Roses go all the way?
Health, Sports & Psychology

Vitality Netball Nations Cup 2025: can the England Roses go all the way?

...Centre (C) Wing Defence (WD) Goal Defence (GD) Goal Keeper (GK) Only two of the players above can score goals – Goal Attack (GA) and Goal Shooter (GS). The game is non-contact, with players required to pass the ball to teammates within a few seconds, aiming to create space and opportunities to score. It’s a highly strategic sport that combines athleticism, teamwork,...
The history of Blaenau Gwent
History & The Arts

The history of Blaenau Gwent

...Centre in the spring of 2020...Blaenau Gwent Through the Ages Based on discussions held by the BG REACH History group [A preview image of the ‘Blaenau Gwent Through the Ages’ timeline PDF.] Download Blaenau Gwent Through the Ages This timeline is based on the topics discussed by BG REACH participants in workshops on the local history of the area. It includes verbatim...
The politics of food introduction
Society, Politics & Law

The politics of food introduction

...centres and getting drunk, so called binge drinking and there have been many policies that have been introduced to deal with that. Commentary Policies aimed at industrial cider producers, such as a cider tax or EU legislation on excise duty, have threatened the livelihoods of smaller artisan producers. Julian Temperley Obviously cider’s taken a big hit, as far as sort...
Trump and Brexit: What do they owe to economists?
Society, Politics & Law

Trump and Brexit: What do they owe to economists?

...Centre for European Reform have recently observed. There is a deeper sense in which the widespread tendency in economics to downplay the importance of uncertainty has contributed to current political trends. A whole generation of elites has been trained to assume that voters and economic actors will tend – despite certain predictable behavioural biases – to converge...
How jazz came to Wales
History & The Arts

How jazz came to Wales

...centre to commemorate her, © UWTSD. Her friends were journalists, freed slaves and campaigners such as Frederick Douglass and Ellen and William Craft, and political activists William Lloyd Garrison and Harriet Beecher Stowe. The music Jessie would have heard was played on the Cincinnati streets by Stephen Collins Foster. He penned abolitionist campaign songs and adapted...
What is Blockchain?
Digital & Computing

What is Blockchain?

...one vote’. In this way, a blockchain can act as a provenance protocol for sharing data across disparate semi-trusting organisations. An overview of OU research on blockchain can be found at this link. Click here to download the video transcript (PDF) This article is adapted from an OpenLearn Create course under a Creative Commons license. Visit the original course....
Exploring the depth of the Antarctic ice sheet...
Nature & Environment

Exploring the depth of the Antarctic ice sheet...

...research at The Open University...If you ask someone what the weather will be like tomorrow, they will first look out of the window. That is because tomorrow’s weather is highly dependent on today’s weather, despite all the complexities of the moving air masses in the atmosphere. The air moves faster than ice sheets, therefore, it is easy to imagine that the current...