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Supporting Mental Health Through Online Music Fandoms
OpenLearn Ireland

Supporting Mental Health Through Online Music Fandoms

...open up about personal issues and, in return, receive supportive messages from peers. 8. Does joining an online fandom lead to empowerment? Being part of an online music fandom can be empowering and give members greater agency. Through the fandom, you can gain strength and resilience, define yourself on your own terms and get to know yourself better. This process of...
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Early adopters: What are smartphones doing to children?
Education & Development

Early adopters: What are smartphones doing to children?

...opens up the YouTube app to watch an episode of the colourful animation Billy Bam Bam. Halfway through, she moves onto a Yo Gabba Gabba! game, which involves anthropomorphised fruits making their way into a character’s belly. When Jessica’s mum, Sandy, tries to take away the iPad, there’s a tantrum that threatens to go nuclear: wobbly lip, tears, hands balled into...
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EU Referendum - Economy
Society, Politics & Law

EU Referendum - Economy

...open to trade, which helps it become more competitive and innovative. But it also points out that greater openness means more exposure to financial market contagion, especially from the Eurozone, and that the task of maintaining a dynamic, well-regulated UK financial sector may “become more challenging as the euro area integrates further.” So while its report...
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Some merits of Manchester
History & The Arts

Some merits of Manchester

...open square before it. Call it an incongruity, if you will, but that enemy of episcopacy is at least not accused of stabling his horses in The Old Church at Manchester, or despoiling it of its sacred images and stained glass, and he merits a monument there if anywhere. With the constantly passing trams which traverse the square, he is undoubtedly more significant of...
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Journeying through wellbeing: Exploring mental health and wellbeing
Health, Sports & Psychology

Journeying through wellbeing: Exploring mental health and wellbeing

...Open University students to sum up what wellbeing meant to them, some used words such as ‘contentment’, ‘calmness’ and ‘happiness’ that indicated they thought wellbeing was focused on aspects of mental health. However, other students provided words that showed they thought wellbeing was living a life ‘free from illness’ and other terms focused on physical...
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EPQs: designing your research question
Education & Development

EPQs: designing your research question

...open to a range of perspectives will give you much more opportunities to develop your skills in presenting arguments and discussing their strengths and weaknesses. Finally, the question should be interesting – for you, of course, but also for those who will read your dissertation or watch your final presentation. The ‘ten words’ technique and exercise. Developing a...
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Dallas Campbell meets Frank Drake
Science, Maths & Technology

Dallas Campbell meets Frank Drake

...sources of joy are with other intelligent creatures. And we will learn perhaps what doesn’t work. What to avoid. Maybe colonising space is a bad thing. We will find out and it will save us the trouble of learning a lesson through our own, through some very difficult and damaging enterprise. Fade to black and fade up again Dallas Campbell: Now obviously we are doing the...
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You and your money
Money & Business

You and your money

...Source: BIS, 2010, p. 5, Figure 1 Figure 2 Total household debt to income ratio, 1987–2009 (secured and unsecured debt) An important factor in this preparedness to take on debt was the level of ‘economic confidence’ from the mid 1990s to 2007. When people feel optimistic about the future – when there is the so-called ‘feel good’ factor about the economy –...
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Level 1: Introductory 12 hrs