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Job Change and the Grief Cycle: The effects of losing our job or changing work role
Health, Sports & Psychology

Job Change and the Grief Cycle: The effects of losing our job or changing work role

...courses and qualifications Psychological contract When we go to work, we have a set of expectations about how and what our employment relationship will be with our employer and colleagues, added to our employment contract. This is what psychologists call a psychological contract (Rousseau and Tijoriwala, 1998). These unwritten expectations form the employer-employee...
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Hip Hop and the Institution
History & The Arts

Hip Hop and the Institution

...courses. On the other hand, though, Hip Hop activists have consistently critiqued the way the Institution uses resources, knowledge and aesthetics created by communities of Hip Hop heads without giving back anything of value to them. The Institution’s appropriation of Hip Hop has also led to divisions within the Hip Hop community, for example, when certain people and...
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A sport transformed: Safety in motor-racing since 1969
Health, Sports & Psychology

A sport transformed: Safety in motor-racing since 1969

...to Stirling Moss in the early 1960s that he wear a crash helmet, instead of a cloth cap, his response that it would be a bit of a ‘cissy’ thing to do perhaps conveys the extent to which the sport has changed during the lifetime of the Open University. Read the other articles in this collection Now take a free related course The future of driving Study with the OU...
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Walking the walk: improving death and dying spaces
Health, Sports & Psychology

Walking the walk: improving death and dying spaces

...courses and qualifications. While feedback can inform service improvement, many sites do not have the processes in place to engage bereaved carers in how to improve such spaces. Claire Henry MBE, and Marie Cooper, both nurses with extensive experience and expertise in end-of-life care, and Roberta Lovick, national campaigner for the promotion of good quality end-of-life...
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Design forensic psychology: parenting education and support
Science, Maths & Technology

Design forensic psychology: parenting education and support

...course approach, emphasising the importance of combining parenting education with other support services to mitigate adverse effects. It highlights the value of service co-design, where beneficiaries and practitioners collaborate to create more effective, empowering, and sustainable programmes. The review finds that while parenting education can improve psychosocial...
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Getting to the heart of it: investigating side effects of anti-cancer treatments
Science, Maths & Technology

Getting to the heart of it: investigating side effects of anti-cancer treatments

...courses and qualifications. Developments in anti-cancer treatments have significantly improved patient survival; however, there is evidence that a growing number of cancer patients present with impaired heart function as a consequence of their treatment. This phenomenon is known as cardiotoxicity. All anti-cancer treatments affect the heart to some extent, though the...
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The Italian Patient: Health care in Renaissance Italy
History & The Arts

The Italian Patient: Health care in Renaissance Italy

...course on the Renaissance with The Open University. The full story Further reading Piety and Charity in late Medieval Florence J. Henderson (University of Chicago Press, 1997) The Greatest Benefit to Mankind: a Medical History from antiquity to the present R. Porter (Harper Collins, 1997) The Body Emblazoned: Dissection and the Human Body in Renaissance Culture J. Sawday...
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