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Exploring issues in women's health
Health, Sports & Psychology

Exploring issues in women's health

...social model? - In Engel’s seminal work, the biomedical model was defined as assuming ‘…disease to be fully accounted for by deviation from the norm of measurable biological (somatic) variables. It leaves no room within its framework for social, psychological, and behavioral dimensions of illness’ (1977, p. 196). But this model clearly needs to be expanded to...
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Level 2: Intermediate 3 hrs
Charles Dickens, Race and Colonialism
History & The Arts

Charles Dickens, Race and Colonialism

...social problems at home before practising ‘telescopic’ philanthropy and missionary work abroad. (In this last concern, his writing anticipates one of the presiding populist political themes of our own time: a misdirected targeting of non-citizens (immigrants) as the underserving recipients of resources that the majority population should claim.) His earlier novel...
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Article 10 mins
Re-assessing the Marquis de Sade
History & The Arts

Re-assessing the Marquis de Sade

...work that pushed boundaries. Literally synonymous with sexual and violent excess, his reputation as a writer is often clouded by the extreme nature of his work. In a series of lively and engaging discussions, Alex Barber, Angelica Goodden and Timo Airaksinen re-assess both the man and his writing in social, historical and literary contexts, providing an insight into an...
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Audio 48 mins
Learning from the past with historic buildings
History & The Arts

Learning from the past with historic buildings

...work with our building traditions to create designs that will last?...Our need to act now in the climate emergency must recognise the value of looking at the past for the origins of our assumptions about how we build and why we value some habits of building. We need to create not just sustainable ways of building, but also sustainable ways of living as households and as...
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Article 10 mins
Young people’s wellbeing
Health, Sports & Psychology

Young people’s wellbeing

...work of MacDonald and Marsh (2005) and others that poverty and social exclusion also play a significant role in shaping young people's mental and emotional wellbeing. The ways in which diversity and inequality impact on wellbeing challenge generalised narratives that tell of a general ‘decline’ in young people's health. The complex interactions of social and cultural...
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Level 2: Intermediate 16 hrs
Using art and creative methods to interrogate identity, citizenship and migration
Society, Politics & Law

Using art and creative methods to interrogate identity, citizenship and migration

...work on citizenship, migration and the ethics and politics of the refugee crisis might be shared with wider audiences through creative expression. You can reflect on how research, arts, culture, audience participation and education might learn from each other. You will have the opportunity to first explore a number of conversations from OU academics with artists and media...
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Article 5 mins
London housing protests echo Glasgow rent strikes of 100 years ago
Society, Politics & Law

London housing protests echo Glasgow rent strikes of 100 years ago

...social cleansing of working-class residents by Tory/Lib Dem coaliton policy. Local tenants' organisations and protest groups have also been formed to co-ordinate discontent. Meanwhile, Corbyn’s Labour is proposing the biggest social-housing programme since the 1970s. This is all exactly 100 years after the Glasgow rent strikes of 1915, another period that lacked...
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Article 15 mins
Green care: contact with nature can improve mental health
Health, Sports & Psychology

Green care: contact with nature can improve mental health

...social context to such activities and this has its own benefits of feeling part of a group and making social contact with others The activities are experienced as meaningful and can lead to the development of new skills, a sense of achievement, responsibility and increased confidence. [Part of a parterre in an English garden.] Having worked as a ‘horticultural...
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Article 10 mins