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What LGBTQ+ Relationships Can Teach Us About Love
Health, Sports & Psychology

What LGBTQ+ Relationships Can Teach Us About Love

...Think outside the box As the research on gender roles suggests, outdated socio-cultural norms can structure the couple dynamic in heterosexual relationships resulting in imbalances in power and unfairness in the domestic division of labour. This is likely to cause resentment and conflict. LGBTQ+ couples, on the other hand, are more willing to think outside the box of what...
Identifying Values – Finding the Things that Matter the Most to You for the Way You Live and Work
Health, Sports & Psychology

Identifying Values – Finding the Things that Matter the Most to You for the Way You Live and Work

...think about what characteristics and ways of behaving make you feel good? What’s important to you in life? What career would you change to if there were no constraints? What inspires you? And think about what disappoints you and makes you angry (may show that you value the opposite)? What would you most like to change? Read the lists of your top twenty values again. Are...
Why is it so difficult for Muslim women to play sport?
Health, Sports & Psychology

Why is it so difficult for Muslim women to play sport?

...think of this image when thinking about clashes of understanding between cultures. [This is a cartoon-style drawing of two women walking in opposite directions. One woman is wearing a bikini and carrying a beach bag; she is wearing high heels, jewellery and sunglasses. The other woman is wearing a black burqa covering all of her body except for her eyes. Each woman looks...
Multidisciplinary study: the value and benefits Badge icon
Education & Development

Multidisciplinary study: the value and benefits

...think they want to do maybe sociology or psychology, and they will switch from the idea of having done that first foundation module. So that can lead you into areas you never thought you'd be interested in. SPEAKER 5 I think I like having that flexibility. I mean, that's what the Open degree is all about. SPEAKER 3 So students can pretty much study any modules they like,...
Exploring the relationship between anxiety and depression
Science, Maths & Technology

Exploring the relationship between anxiety and depression

...think critically about some of the more pressing contemporary questions and controversies. For example: Do anxiety and depression lie along a ‘continuum’ of human emotions? Do culture and societal views matter? Are anxiety and depression simply caused by the stresses and strains of daily living and by life’s events and traumas, and not by genes? How much of mental...
Budget 2017: Instant reactions
Money & Business

Budget 2017: Instant reactions

...system designed for the problems of 1948 at the beginning of the welfare state. The Cabinet Office is working on a paper about long-term options for care reform – let’s hope it’s a good one. Education Andrew Gunn, Visiting Fellow at the School of Education, University of Leeds Several of Theresa May’s ambitions to improve education through increased choice are...
The world's busiest railway station - Chhatrapati Shivaji Terminus, Mumbai
Science, Maths & Technology

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

...system control and automation. [Blurred hurrying commuters inside Chhatrapati Shivaji Terminus railway station, Mumbai] On top of that, to maintain the headway, commuters only have fifteen to thirty five seconds while the train stops to get on or off. Many jump out of the open doors whilst the train is still in motion. Tragically accidents are commonplace - nine people...
Tim Peake’s spacewalk is no stroll in the park
Science, Maths & Technology

Tim Peake’s spacewalk is no stroll in the park

...system that controls power from the solar panels, and one of its eight sub-units (number 1B) has failed and is to be replaced. One bolt has to be undone, the faulty unit removed, new one installed, and the single bolt re-tightened. It will take about three hours to complete the task, something that would take maybe half an hour back home. Kopra, a NASA astronaut, has...