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How do we learn language?
Education & Development

How do we learn language?

...change something for the better, it helps to understand it first. Also, if we want to teach better, as is the case with formal language education in schools and universities, then it helps to understand the natural biases and blind spots evolution has written into our language-learning psychology. Summary [Baby sitting on floor looking at a book, wearing a purple...
What happens ‘When East Meets West’?
Health, Sports & Psychology

What happens ‘When East Meets West’?

...change throughout our lives as we re-evaluate who we are. This can result in ‘hybrid identities’ as the students had either worked, lived and studied across cultures or because they had mixed heritage. A lot of distress also came from either feeling like they didn’t fit in (‘separation’) or from feeling disconnected from both the new culture and the one they...
Music and mental health: the parallels between Victorian asylum treatments and modern social prescribing
Health, Sports & Psychology

Music and mental health: the parallels between Victorian asylum treatments and modern social prescribing

...changed creature”. Browne also wrote in one of his books of the miraculous effect music had on one patient who awoke, cured, the morning after listening to a performance of Scottish traditional melodies. Music as treatment In the 1890s, many doctors carried out experiments on the relationship between music and mental illness. Herbert Hayes Newington, medical...
10 tips to beat the January blues
Health, Sports & Psychology

10 tips to beat the January blues

...changing your drinking habits. Free Course: The science of alcohol 5: Practice self-care [self care isn't selfish sign] Consciously do things that can improve your mental health. What that looks like will be different for all of us. It could be having a bath, meditating, singing, enjoying a good book, spending time cooking a delicious meal, or just taking time to slow...
Walking the walk: improving death and dying spaces
Health, Sports & Psychology

Walking the walk: improving death and dying spaces

...changes such as de-cluttering a room can make a significant difference and provide a calm, healing space. Engaging in Walking the Walk is a very empowering experience for staff – they value celebrating what they do well and also see it as an opportunity to continue improvement. If you would like to find out more, please contact: Claire Henry MBE, Honorary Fellow at The...
The Z Files: Tony Waithe
Science, Maths & Technology

The Z Files: Tony Waithe

...change the way we use things. I run the Young Inventors Club, basically what we do is we go into schools, secondary schools and we talk to young people trying to kind of consider what careers they want to get into. We talk to them about engineering, science, design and technology and maths. When kids think of maths generally they think of some complicated numbers, but...
Insights into Policing and Racism in the UK – a collection
Education & Development

Insights into Policing and Racism in the UK – a collection

...Changing Contours of Criminal Justice. London: Oxford University Press. Mukhopadhyay, C. C., Henze, R. and Moses, Y. T. (2014) How Real is Race?: A Resource Book on Race, Culture and Biology. Lanham, MD: AltaMira Press. Sampson, R., Wilson, W.J. and Katz, H. (2018) Reassessing Toward a theory of race, crime, and urban inequality: Enduring and new challenges in 21st...
Reflecting on Race at The Open University
Education & Development

Reflecting on Race at The Open University

...change.’ Transcript Celebrating Black History Month at the OU The next session by Sas Amoah (Co-Chair of the OU’s BME network) and Joan Simons (Associate Dean, Teaching Excellence and OU Equality Diversity and Inclusion academic lead) focused on the origins of Black History Month and presented notable black academics who are recognised and admired by the four...