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What are your views about technologies to support and assess writing skills?
Education & Development

What are your views about technologies to support and assess writing skills?

...Forensic Analysis to analyse personal writing style by detecting similarities among written documents submitted by each user TeSLA from TeSLA project EU on Vimeo. In the context of formal education, the OU TeSLA team have completed two studies with almost 1000 OU students and teaching staff. The participants have identified a range of advantages of online authentication,...
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Exploring anxiety
Science, Maths & Technology

Exploring anxiety

...psychological perspectives. At Masters level you will be expected to think critically about issues, models and frameworks and their application in different contexts, to take a proactive ‘questioning’ approach, to put forward your views, and to argue a case convincingly backed up with evidence that supports your view. These are skills that you will continue to develop...
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The lifelong political engagement of the Silent Generation
Health, Sports & Psychology

The lifelong political engagement of the Silent Generation

...Psychology courses and qualifications. Ageing isn’t easy and it is often made more difficult by a society that values its citizens in terms of their economic contribution. Retirement can bring with it a sense of personal loss of the reputation, status and income associated with employment. It may also be accompanied by society’s loss of interest in the opinions of its...
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The science of the mind: investigating mental health
Science, Maths & Technology

The science of the mind: investigating mental health

...psychology and social science contribute to our understanding of mental health and mental illness? How do the biomedical and biopsychosocial models compare when it comes to diagnosis and treatment? This album reveals the importance of the perspective scientists and health professionals take, and the difference it can make to treatment outcomes. The Blackthorn Garden case...
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Methods in Motion: Remaking self-help
Society, Politics & Law

Methods in Motion: Remaking self-help

...psychology question of how GSRD can be explained is a problematic one, and that it’s more valuable to ask instead what can be learnt from people who are doing gender, sexuality, or relationships in different ways to the current ‘norm’. As Darren Langdridge, Helen Bowes-Catton, and I have explored in our collaborative work, the methods and theories that allow you to...
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Rugby: A sport for sampling or specialisation?
Health, Sports & Psychology

Rugby: A sport for sampling or specialisation?

...psychological and sociological skills that benefit their rugby performance. ‘Rugby is a late maturation sport, further complicated by the different maturation rates that tend to apply to the different positions. There is also a wide consensus based on statistical evidence that selection for elite training and specialisation would be more effective if delayed until after...
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What is trauma?
Society, Politics & Law

What is trauma?

...Psychological Association (APA): ‘an emotional response to a terrible event like an accident, rape, or natural disaster’. Trauma responses will be different for each person and may change over time. Rape Crisis England and Wales explain that some victims may feel: angry/‘moody’ ashamed/‘dirty’ embarrassed/humiliated guilty/like they’re to blame unable to...
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The benefits of mindfulness and five common myths surrounding it
Health, Sports & Psychology

The benefits of mindfulness and five common myths surrounding it

...psychological issues related to factors including loss, shame and embarrassment. This means that our species’ old strategies of ‘replaying’ and ‘fast forwarding’ are not as helpful as they once were and can keep us stuck feeling distressed. One proven strategy to help us manage our distress is by becoming physically active. Feeling low impacts on our motivation...
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