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Supporting new mothers’ mental health during the perinatal period
Health, Sports & Psychology

Supporting new mothers’ mental health during the perinatal period

...Open University's Health and wellbeing courses and qualifications. The early days of pregnancy and new parenthood are often described as joyful, hopeful, and life affirming (Doss & Rhoades, 2017). A new baby can represent so many things, such as love, connection, and even a fresh start. Yet for many parents, this period also brings fear, confusion, and emotional upheaval...
Socrates - Teacher, Paragon or Chatterbox?
History & The Arts

Socrates - Teacher, Paragon or Chatterbox?

...opened up, to reveal a god inside. The comparison is certainly a striking one. It captures the impression that Socrates seems to have made on his followers: a decidedly unimpressive exterior, concealing something precious and strange. To his fellow citizens in fifth century Athens, Socrates must certainly have seemed very odd. In a city that prized power and wealth,...
The sharing economy
Society, Politics & Law

The sharing economy

...Open University modules. As the module title suggests, sharing in a broad sense is a central concept in DST206 Environment: Sharing a Dynamic Planet. More specifically, non-market sharing and other forms of informal and diverse economies in the food system are explored in Block 5: Food, most prominently in Chapter 7 Beyond the ABC model: from biotechnology to ‘grow your...
Measure the Pulfrich Effect
Science, Maths & Technology

Measure the Pulfrich Effect

...open. As you watch the swinging pendulum, using one ‘bright’ eye and one ‘dim’ eye, the straight side-to-side motion should seem to have changed into an elliptical swing. In other words, the pendulum should appear to be tracing an oval path. This will still work perfectly well if you wear spectacles – just hold the sunglasses in front of one lens. However, if...
London inside out
Society, Politics & Law

London inside out

...open rather than bounded, hospitable rather than excluding, as ever-changing rather than eternal. And nothing that follows is meant to gainsay that. What I should like to explore about this imagination of place held by so many Londoners, however, is how it might be broadened out. First of all this is an internal, indeed internalised, view of the city. It is about...
The weakness of European Wales
Society, Politics & Law

The weakness of European Wales

...Open University’s ‘Open Research Online’ repository, see here. References All EU referendum results cited in this article were taken from the Electoral Commission website: http://www.electoralcommission.org.uk/find-information-by-subject/elections-and-referendums/past-elections-and-referendums/eu-referendum/electorate-and-count-information [1] Graham Grant, ‘New...
Sperm counts
Nature & Environment

Sperm counts

...Open University's Science courses and qualifications. [Zeron Gibson and Mike Leahy] Lab Rats Mike Leahy and Zeron Gibson Although I'm a biologist, I rarely think much about what the cloudy white stuff contains, but in fact semen is far more complex than my endearing childhood image of mini tadpoles swimming around in thin wallpaper paste. There are many features of human...
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Supporting young trans people’s rights to health and happiness
Education & Development

Supporting young trans people’s rights to health and happiness

...open. At the same time, they are still constrained and restricted by gender roles and expectations – particularly by school structures (Neary, 2021; Bragg et al., 2018). A society that is more accepting of trans and non-binary lives is open to wider possibilities for all children. This article has focused on treatment for gender dysphoria – the deep feeling that your...