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How can acceptance and commitment therapy help carers in challenging times such as the COVID-19 pandemic?
Health, Sports & Psychology

How can acceptance and commitment therapy help carers in challenging times such as the COVID-19 pandemic?

...Open University's Health and Social Care courses and qualifications. The COVID-19 pandemic has been a time of great stress for carers. They have endured decreased access to support services and social support, decreased time to look after themselves and difficulties maintaining the physical and emotional health of themselves and their loved one, in the face of national...
Writing your proposal and preparing for your interview
Education & Development

Writing your proposal and preparing for your interview

...Open University guide to referencing. Keep any direct quotations to a minimum (the panel is interested in your words not others’). Before submitting your work The academic panel will pay close attention to the way in which your proposal is structured and written, so take time to write, reflect on and revise your work before submission. Conventions in academic English...
It’s all in a name: why I refuse to use a ‘white’ name
Society, Politics & Law

It’s all in a name: why I refuse to use a ‘white’ name

...Open University employee Sudesh Loi gives his views...Before joining The Open University in March 2021, I left my old job of 12 years and decided to take a year out of work as my wife was expecting our second child during the COVID-19 pandemic. I eventually decided to begin the application process but first I needed to dust off my 12+ years old CV and update it. What...
What Human Rights Day means to me
Society, Politics & Law

What Human Rights Day means to me

...Open University's Centre for Voluntary Sector Leadership. He reflects on his own experiences to highlight the fact that human rights are real and not just abstract aspirations...[Human rights sign] I have been working in social justice for over two decades. One of the criticisms of the sector that I do take to heart, is being called a do-gooder. While on the surface it is...
Scoring the Shoreline
History & The Arts

Scoring the Shoreline

...open sea drawing on a romantic idealisation of the seafaring life central to ideas of British identity. [Henry Wood] William Walton's (1902-1983) overture Portsmouth Point, written in 1925, also invokes a romanticised history of Britain as a great sea power. Walton drew inspiration from a print by the English caricaturist Thomas Rowlandson (1756-1827). Rowlandson's...
The health impacts of FGM
Health, Sports & Psychology

The health impacts of FGM

...opening by creating a covering seal - cutting and repositioning the labia minora, or labia majora, sometimes with stitching, with or without removal of the clitoral clitoral hood and glans. May partially or fully close the vaginal opening and is associated with the highest risk of complications Type 4: All other harmful procedures to the female genitalia for non-medical...
Social construction and social constructionism
Society, Politics & Law

Social construction and social constructionism

...Open University course. It is intended to help you gain a greater understanding of the terms: social construction and social constructionism. The audio file was recorded in 2001. It is a studio discussion between academic colleagues who examine and define social construction and social constructionism. Participants in the discussion were: John Clarke Professor of Social...
Particle physics
Science, Maths & Technology

Particle physics

...Open University course SM123 Physics and space...Particle physics: Learning outcomes - After studying this course, you should be able to: recognise and name the six flavours of lepton and the six flavours of quark. understand that all leptons and quarks have corresponding antiparticles appreciate that quarks and antiquarks combine to form baryons, antibaryons and mesons....
Level 1: Introductory 5 hrs