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Why the size of your plate might be making you overweight
Health, Sports & Psychology

Why the size of your plate might be making you overweight

...size, availability and appeal of large servings can make a difference to the amounts people eat and drink, and we hope that our findings will provide fresh impetus for discussions on how this can be achieved in a range of public sector and commercial settings.” Try our free course The Science of Nutrition Read more about the research at the Cambridge University website...
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Silent Invisible Women: Deaf and Muslim in Australia
History & The Arts

Silent Invisible Women: Deaf and Muslim in Australia

...course, my thesis has obvious limitations, including a very narrow sample. More expansive research will be needed not only to highlight diversity in deaf discourse but to also close the anecdotal gap between Islam and disability. I look forward to expanding on my honours thesis and conducting further research to meet these research desiderata. At the moment, I am working...
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Turning the pain of racial discrimination into protection for others
Education & Development

Turning the pain of racial discrimination into protection for others

...course and believe it is vital that parents think about their own culture, so they have the knowledge to empower their own children to feel confident and comfortable in their own bodies and lives. The system should be fair, but it isn’t, so we must stand up for ourselves and each other. I’ve shared our experiences at protests, Black History Month celebrations, Theatre...
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Active Citizenship in Wales
Society, Politics & Law

Active Citizenship in Wales

...Courses, articles and videos available on OpenLearn. Browse more resources Research Citizens’ Voices, People’s News: Making the Media Work for Wales An IWA report, in partnership with The Open University in Wales This research was commissioned by The Open University in Wales (OU) and the Institute of Welsh Affairs (IWA), who are working together with Welsh citizens to...
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Understanding Female Genital Mutilation and its impact across the lifespan podcast
Health, Sports & Psychology

Understanding Female Genital Mutilation and its impact across the lifespan podcast

...course. SENSITIVITY STATEMENT We appreciate that FGM is a highly sensitive subject area, and that this podcast contains content about the practice and impact of FGM that some listeners might find emotionally challenging and distressing. Please do prioritise your well-being and skip sections, pause, or stop the recording where needed. If you are affected by FGM or by what...
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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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