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Legacy of the Romantics
History & The Arts

Legacy of the Romantics

...University's English courses and qualifications. [Character of Mary Shelley] Nowadays the word ‘romantic’ tends to trigger associations with love and sentimentality, but the period known as the Romantic era encompassed so much more! Romanticism is notoriously difficult to define and has been interpreted in various ways in different countries. However, it is true to...
Outdoor Therapy: The Benefits of Walking and Talking
Health, Sports & Psychology

Outdoor Therapy: The Benefits of Walking and Talking

...University's Health and Wellbeing courses Accessing face-to-face counselling can be difficult.However, many people have been found a different kind of therapy very valuable: Walking Therapy. You may also like to listen to our podcast here. Two things come to mind when we think of walking and outdoors: both are immensely beneficial for our physical and mental health and...
Should we educate prisoners?
Society, Politics & Law

Should we educate prisoners?

...university with students in prison, my role involves working with the prison authorities to facilitate higher education study in their establishments. My experience in this role has helped to highlight the many difficulties faced by both prisoners who wish to engage in higher-level study and prison staff who are tasked with supporting them. I also lecture Year 1...
How gender equality can help fix the construction industry
Society, Politics & Law

How gender equality can help fix the construction industry

...for which the Carillion crisis serves as a violent example. Our research suggests that in order to do this we first need to transform our outdated industry. Promoting women to senior levels is essential for this to happen. This article was originally published on The Conversation. Read the original article. More articles and free courses Study with The Open University...
From curing to caring? Exploring the role of spiritual healing in a biomedical world
Health, Sports & Psychology

From curing to caring? Exploring the role of spiritual healing in a biomedical world

...University revealed that it is not just patients who are choosing the healing touch. Health practitioners too attend weekly healing services at Spiritualist churches, not because they are practicing Spiritualists, but because it makes them feel better and more able to cope in high-pressure roles. Though hands-on healing is a core part of Spiritualism, the whole religion...
How Do Jurors Decide When a Witness is Telling the Truth?
Society, Politics & Law

How Do Jurors Decide When a Witness is Telling the Truth?

...University's Law courses. [A photograph of a lie detector.] In a criminal trial, one thing that jurors often have to do is listen to competing accounts of events given by witnesses and try and work out which witness is telling the truth. These judgments are called credibility judgments. They often arise in trials for sexual offences, where the defendant and the...
How Emma Raducanu’s parents strike the right balance: supporting your child athlete
Health, Sports & Psychology

How Emma Raducanu’s parents strike the right balance: supporting your child athlete

...University's Sport and Fitness courses and qualifications. Many parents are faced with a difficult question of how to best support the sporting excellence of their children. Parents of talented young athletes often understand the importance of their role in supporting their child’s sporting development, but they do not always understand how to ensure that the level of...
Exomoons: astronomers report first ever discovery
Science, Maths & Technology

Exomoons: astronomers report first ever discovery

...University in the US – has been speculating about the possible existence of exomoons, and describing how they might be detected, for the last ten years. He has led the field over this time, so I am delighted that his persistence has paid off. As with most “first” discoveries, this first exomoon detection is not yet absolutely conclusive, as the signals are at the...