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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

...Open University's Psychology 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...
Is the blue plaque scheme still relevant?
History & The Arts

Is the blue plaque scheme still relevant?

...that blue plaque schemes can help open up conversations about what we want to remember and what we may need to forget. On the 160th anniversary of the blue plaque scheme, it’s a good time to rethink what legacy each plaque leaves behind. As well as what legacies are still missing from the heritage landscape so that it represents the rich and diverse world we live in....
What happens ‘When East Meets West’?
Health, Sports & Psychology

What happens ‘When East Meets West’?

...open and accepting attitude towards others. The second group are the staff who work tirelessly to teach and support students from all different cultural backgrounds. By better understanding the experiences of those we teach, we can better serve them. The third group are the institutions - encouraging staff and students from all different backgrounds to join forces e.g....
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...
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

...Open University's Biology 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...
The Italian Patient: Health care in Renaissance Italy
History & The Arts

The Italian Patient: Health care in Renaissance Italy

...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 (Routledge, 1995) Doctors and...
A Clockwork Orange: ultraviolence, Russian spies and fake news
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A Clockwork Orange: ultraviolence, Russian spies and fake news

...Nixonian, “with no shred of optimism in it”. He concluded: “America prefers the other, more violent, ending. Who am I to say America is wrong? It’s all a matter of choice.” [The Conversation] Philip Seargeant, Senior Lecturer in Applied Linguistics, The Open University This article was originally published on The Conversation. Read the original article....
Music and mental health: the parallels between Victorian asylum treatments and modern social prescribing
Health, Sports & Psychology

Music and mental health: the parallels between Victorian asylum treatments and modern social prescribing

...a range of social, emotional and intellectual needs. Given what we know now about the benefit of music on mental health, it’s no wonder doctors are making use of it again.[The Conversation] Rosemary Golding, Senior Lecturer in Music, The Open University This article is republished from The Conversation under a Creative Commons license. Read the original article....