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Everybody's looking for love
Health, Sports & Psychology

Everybody's looking for love

...changing, it is evident that some caregivers still hold these negative perceptions, which include the belief that people with learning disabilities are asexual or “childlike”. Not only do these beliefs hold people with learning disabilities back from relationships, they also infringe on their human right to privacy and a family life, as outlined in Article 8 of the...
In your garden: Birds and nesting boxes
Nature & Environment

In your garden: Birds and nesting boxes

...change over time. Due to their position in the food chain (they eat insects), birds are also a useful indicator on the fitness of the environment. The shortage of nesting sites for birds has played at least a part in the decline of some of the UK’s bird species. Natural nesting sites disappear as gardens are ‘tidied up’ and so old trees with nesting holes disappear,...
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...
Irish Women’s Poetry: Sinéad Morrissey
OpenLearn Ireland

Irish Women’s Poetry: Sinéad Morrissey

...changed the relationship of humans with the world around them. [A reproduction of the elephant clock in the Ibn Battuta Mall, Dubai ]A reproduction of the elephant clock in the Ibn Battuta Mall, Dubai Morrissey’s eye remains acute for the small details of social history. You can hear this as she reads her poem ‘The Millihelen’. Note in particular its extraordinary...
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...
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...
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...
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...