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Valuing death
Health, Sports & Psychology

Valuing death

...Care qualifications. Death is part of life and is something we all need to face; not only our own death, but the deaths of those around us. Yet many of us are unprepared for this major event in our lives. The COVID-19 pandemic has exposed us all to more deaths. However, those deaths were likely to be in hospital with few, if any, family or friends close by. In this first...
Investigating environmental futures through speculative design
Society, Politics & Law

Investigating environmental futures through speculative design

...care for a tree as well as tell stories about its growth over time. The prototype consists of two boxes, one for jewellery and the other for memories. The jewellery contains bio-sensing devices and can be placed anywhere on the body, where it produces haptic and sonic effects based on the signals it receives from sensors attached to the tree, which are in turn responding...
Supporting children and young people's wellbeing
Health, Sports & Psychology

Supporting children and young people's wellbeing

...care contexts. It might also reflect where children and young people live as well as economic and domestic circumstances. The term can also be used generally to denote quality of life experiences. Children and young people’s wellbeing may be influenced in a positive way by good physical health or material wealth, for example, yet undermined by poor social relationships;...
One minute methods - sampling
Health, Sports & Psychology

One minute methods - sampling

Like the babies in Laura Schultz’s experiments, discover why researchers take care over the generalisations they make. ...Transcript.
Do enforced language tests help migrants integrate more smoothly?
Languages

Do enforced language tests help migrants integrate more smoothly?

...adults who arrive in Australia under different visa classes. This policy will inevitably lead to two classes of permanent Australian residents, one of them an underclass without access to the privileges of citizenship. Is this what the Australian government wants? It is beyond question that English is the national language of Australia but we also need to recognize that...
We learn, together: exploring familial learning in home education
Education & Development

We learn, together: exploring familial learning in home education

...adults. Furthermore, of those adults, it is likely that most respondents will have been home-educating mothers (or female adult). These responses were discussed in the Photovoice stage of the research where young people were able to discuss their part in answering the survey. Graph 1: Q5 Indicate how much value you place on the given statements (Highest Value –v- Lowest...
Meet the OU experts behind 'Hospital'
Health, Sports & Psychology

Meet the OU experts behind 'Hospital'

...care interventions at all levels of the organisation. Over six episodes you will see staff working within highly stressed environments – often having to manage resource demands that don’t stretch sufficiently to accommodate all needs; you will meet patients – many with complex care needs who are faced with uncertainty about treatment; you will see staff frustrated...
Will Brexit force British retirees to return from Spain?
Money & Business

Will Brexit force British retirees to return from Spain?

...care and support. They had been getting by with support from friends or voluntary organisations that operate in Spain. However, since the EU referendum, their lives have become fragile and uncertain. Health and pensions By and large the main concern for these pensioners is healthcare and whether they will still be able to access free healthcare once the UK leaves the EU....