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Finding your way after the death of a significant person
Health, Sports & Psychology

Finding your way after the death of a significant person

...course of my life and have since dedicated the last four years of my life exploring ways in which people can navigate their loss; especially coming from a racially minoritised background. Even within racially minoritised groups, there is so much diversity within our experiences of death, dying and loss. [candles on a black background depicting grief] What is loss? We lose...
The Scottish Women’s Herring Strike in Great Yarmouth in the 1930s and 1940s
Society, Politics & Law

The Scottish Women’s Herring Strike in Great Yarmouth in the 1930s and 1940s

...courses. Herring women and girls in inter-war Scotland During the 1930s and 1940s a transient group of Scottish women travelled to Great Yarmouth, East Anglia, following the migration of herring shoals down the North Sea. In many of the documents and photographs that are available from the time, these herring women are referred to as ‘the herring girls’ or ‘the...
How jazz came to Wales
History & The Arts

How jazz came to Wales

...courses  There is a straight line running from the anti-slavery movement and its campaign music from the 1850s, through to the jazz festivals with which we are familiar in Wales today. This line can be traced through the life and times of the Swansea anti-slavery campaigner and abolitionist Jessie (Heineken) Donaldson (1799­–1889). Jessie had opened her School for...
What are the benefits of interdisciplinary study?
Education & Development

What are the benefits of interdisciplinary study?

...courses which make sense to them. For example, it is not too difficult to find a theme which crosses over disciplinary boundaries in literature, art and history or science and mathematics. Studying topics thematically is one way to bring ideas together resulting in more meaningful learning. This can occur by allowing students to choose their own subjects and their...
Sense of self during ageing: how mindfulness and nature can help
Health, Sports & Psychology

Sense of self during ageing: how mindfulness and nature can help

...courses. Population ageing is a rising trend globally, with declining fertility rates and an increase in life expectancy. The UN estimates there have never been more aged people in the world than today. This means it is increasingly important that ageing well is given priority. What is ageing [A very elderly lady, full face shot showing lots of wrinkles]Ageing is a...
The Amygdala Hijack: Stress Response in Aviation
Health, Sports & Psychology

The Amygdala Hijack: Stress Response in Aviation

...course of action, often under high workload, time pressure, and ambiguous indications, all of which can be stressful. Sudden and severe stress generates the following bodily responses: increase in heart rate increase in breathing decrease in digestive activity liver released glucose for energy Fight-or-flight response Our bodies assess whether or not a situation is...
Five pillars of ageing well
Health, Sports & Psychology

Five pillars of ageing well

...courses and qualifications. As part of the Ageing Well series of Public Talks, I am exploring how important it is, over our lifespan, to maintain a well-balanced nutrition and hydration as well as regular physical and social activity in the older age. As we know we start ageing the moment we are born, it demonstrates more significantly when we reach a certain age, the...
The Irish Gothic in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries
OpenLearn Ireland

The Irish Gothic in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries

...course of the century and, in many ways, Gothic writing developed in response to it. The political instability of previous centuries also continued to haunt Irish society and contributed to something of a national identity crisis. As Kevin Whelan puts it, “In Ireland the appeal to the past inevitably worried old wounds on which the scar tissue had never fully...