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Terminal illness and wellbeing: supporting people in the workplace
Health, Sports & Psychology

Terminal illness and wellbeing: supporting people in the workplace

...out, including the importance of exploring an issue further. Terminal illness and disability: recognise that someone’s diagnosis may now mean they need to have reasonable adjustments made in the workplace. As one participant described it, within the UK, from a discrimination perspective, cancer is viewed as a disability in the workplace and the employee should be...
"That's so gay!" Homophobic language and school
Languages

"That's so gay!" Homophobic language and school

...out with the founder of Inclusion for All, Shaun Dellenty...Have you heard the word 'gay' used negatively in your school lately? How do you react? Do you have a policy about homophobic language? Do your pupils understand the meaning of the word 'gay' and the impact it can have on their own views about homosexuality? What about those pupils who are or have family/friends...
Sebastian Chuwa: environmentalist, conservationist and champion of Tanzanian nature
Nature & Environment

Sebastian Chuwa: environmentalist, conservationist and champion of Tanzanian nature

...out more about The Open University's Environment courses. The 3rd of March is Africa Environment Day, also known as Wangari Maathai day in tribute to the late environmentalist and first female African Nobel Peace Prize winner. It should be celebrated and promoted, not only to increase awareness of the stunning African environment, which is increasingly under threat, but...
Stamford College
Education & Development

Stamford College

...not courses at Stamford College,’ says Caz, ‘it's all about getting them ready to go into the workplace or to university. ‘Our students want to go out and open businesses, or they want to work in business. We can teach them as much theory as we like but if they can't then apply that it's not going to do anything for them. OpenLearn courses are great for that.’...
Ageing, health inequalities and person-centred care
Health, Sports & Psychology

Ageing, health inequalities and person-centred care

...out about The Open University's Health and Social Care courses and qualifications. As part of the Ageing Well Public Talk Series we explore how important it is to maintain well-balanced nutrition and hydration throughout our lives, as well as regular physical and social activity in older age. Within the series we also explore how this knowledge might be used to facilitate...
Methods in Motion: Acknowledging the active participant
Health, Sports & Psychology

Methods in Motion: Acknowledging the active participant

...out in an interview situation? Analyses of interview data tend to treat talk as an original, individual, and personal output, discounting how much of it is borrowed and rehearsed (Taylor 2012), and also how it is shaped by social norms. In today's social media culture, people might seem less inhibited, more ready to reveal personal information, yet certain barriers remain...
Bringing up problems at work (without making things worse)
Education & Development

Bringing up problems at work (without making things worse)

...out problems at work, but sometimes it does fall to us. How can we do it in a constructive way that gets the core message across and doesn’t affect our professional self-image? And what exactly counts as a problem, anyway? What makes something a problem? De Felice and Garretson (2021) define a workplace problem as ‘a state of affairs that affects one or more people...
Recycling: Putting consumers to work
Society, Politics & Law

Recycling: Putting consumers to work

...out unpaid work in order to consume or dispose of goods and services. You will likely be familiar with self-service in supermarkets, with online checking-in and with self-assembly equipment. The growth of the internet has introduced new kinds of work for consumers, like booking holidays or managing finances online. Consumption work is growing and yet little academic...