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Dydd Gŵyl Dewi a rôl y dorf mewn canfyddiadau o hunaniaeth gerddorol Gymreig
History & The Arts

Dydd Gŵyl Dewi a rôl y dorf mewn canfyddiadau o hunaniaeth gerddorol Gymreig

...OU, Yr Athro Emeritws Trevor Herbert a Dr Helen Barlow a Dr Martin Clarke yn cyd-olygu The Cambridge History of Welsh Music, sef yr astudiaeth academaidd fawr gyntaf ar hanes cerddoriaeth Gymreig. Gan ddwyn ynghyd gwaith deuddeg o ysgolheigion blaengar, bydd yn archwilio cerddoriaeth Gymreig a bywyd cerddorol o’r ffynonellau canoloesol cyntaf hyd at ffenomenon ‘Cool...
Constitutional Conversations: what Good Friday Agreement was for women
Society, Politics & Law

Constitutional Conversations: what Good Friday Agreement was for women

...OU collection exploring what Good Friday Agreement means 25 yars on This arcicle is part of "A Peace of Us", our special collection of resources exploring what the Good Friday Agreement brought to our lives in the 25 years since its signing. Beginnings The people who decided what the Good Friday Agreement looked like could not have imagined that by the time of the...
Psychological drama: Writing fictional crime drama for a forensic psychology course
Health, Sports & Psychology

Psychological drama: Writing fictional crime drama for a forensic psychology course

...OU practice to consider content from many angles, including the cultural and constructions/portrayals of race and gender. You can read more about how we tackled race, and particularly gender, in a companion article [link to be insterted]. Back to the dilemma. I have no experience of creative writing (beyond winning a Blue Peter poetry competition when I was 8), but the...
Five surprising facts about sex and the pandemic
Society, Politics & Law

Five surprising facts about sex and the pandemic

...OU is working with Paired to enable couples to thrive. Daily questions and quizzes prompt conversations about everything from sexual fantasies to engaging with sex and intimacy issues in relationships. Check out the Paired app. People tend to compare their sex lives against fictional others based on hearsay, guesswork and popular culture misinformation. Recognizing how...
The benefits of outdoor green and blue spaces
Health, Sports & Psychology

The benefits of outdoor green and blue spaces

...OU and The Parks Trust https://www.open.edu/openlearn/health-sports-psychology/social-care-social-work/keep-me-walking-people-living-dementia-and-outdoor-environments Leach J (2018) Green care: contact with nature can improve mental health
Banning the bomb: a global history of activism against nuclear weapons
History & The Arts

Banning the bomb: a global history of activism against nuclear weapons

...students were working, as you see. And my brother-- this is a piece of leverage now. Before that, this-- that wasn’t like that. And my brother and Nishu-- and then he was working on the road the previous day on the 5th. But on the 6th, he was not. Then he could survive. On the 6th, over 323, I heard, students from his school, first-year students, were working. Nobody...
Evolution through natural selection
Nature & Environment

Evolution through natural selection

...become an Anglican clergyman. Soon after the voyage of the Beagle (1831-1836), during which he was gentleman companion to Captain FitzRoy, Darwin became convinced that biological evolution had occurred and saw how it could have been brought about by natural selection. Despite having gathered massive amounts of supporting evidence, Darwin refrained from publishing his...
The world's busiest railway station - Chhatrapati Shivaji Terminus, Mumbai
Science, Maths & Technology

The world's busiest railway station - Chhatrapati Shivaji Terminus, Mumbai

...become the most important transport hub in the world's busiest commuter rail network. As well as being a UNESCO World Heritage Site, every day over 1,250 local and long-distance trains pull in and out of its 18 platforms. Together, they carry around three million passengers – that’s more people than travel on the entire British railway network per day. The station...