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How yoga conquered Britain: the feminist legacy of Yogini Sunita and Kailash Puri
Health, Sports & Psychology

How yoga conquered Britain: the feminist legacy of Yogini Sunita and Kailash Puri

...health and well-being” with “universal appeal”. The discipline was popularised in Britain through the hard work and dedication of a diverse group of unusual individuals. There were competing ideas of yoga, different forms of practice, and many different points at which yoga entered British culture, as my book Yoga in Britain explores. But there are two women whose...
Solving the care crisis with public investment
Society, Politics & Law

Solving the care crisis with public investment

...mental health had become worse during the coronavirus pandemic compared to 49% young women from higher-income households and 42% young men of all income levels. 1 in 3 (30%) of furloughed young women from low-income households (£0 – £19,999) had their salary topped up by their employer compared to almost half (47%) of both furloughed young women from higher-income...
OpenLearn's response to the pandemic
Education & Development

OpenLearn's response to the pandemic

...Health and social care workers As the Coronavirus pandemic took hold, NHS and local authority leaders through the UK called on hundreds of thousands of former health and social care workers to return to front-line roles. OpenLearn responded by collaborating with retired and active health and social care practitioners across The Open University to build and publish its...
Supporting older people with learning disabilities and their families
Health, Sports & Psychology

Supporting older people with learning disabilities and their families

...health and wellbeing...Session 1: Growing older and behaviours that challenge others: 2 Getting older with a learning disability - [A photograph of a man being helped by his carer.] As the life expectancy of people with learning disabilities has increased, there has been growing interest in how to support people well in older age. In previous years most older people with...
Oliver Sacks: "You are in the hands of a master storyteller"
Health, Sports & Psychology

Oliver Sacks: "You are in the hands of a master storyteller"

...mental function of which patients, through disease, or injury, or failure to develop, may find themselves partly or wholly deprived. (The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat) When I was at boarding school, sent away during the war as a little boy, I had a sense of imprisonment and powerlessness, and I longed for movement and power, ease of movement and superhuman powers. I...
COP26 Glasgow and questions of environmental and social justice
Society, Politics & Law

COP26 Glasgow and questions of environmental and social justice

...ever-changing entanglements of Glasgow’s social and economic needs with matters of environmental health and wellbeing are evident throughout Glasgow’s history, even if rarely acknowledged or understood much of the time. As Glaswegians, this is an important time to reflect on this history. Glasgow: from the second city of the Empire to….? Glasgow has long had a...
Supporting and developing resilience in social work
Health, Sports & Psychology

Supporting and developing resilience in social work

...mental health tribunals, type of work and, actually, they need to be able to show leadership and management in those situations. So, not just working in a little bubble, social work bubble, there’s a wider world out there, and I think actually that leadership skill of enabling can support their work with service users. They can enable people to develop their own...
Meet the OU experts behind 'Hospital'
Health, Sports & Psychology

Meet the OU experts behind 'Hospital'

...Wellbeing, Education and Language studies, gives us a view of the OU's involvement in the series and what the audiences will gain from watching: "As an academic consultant for the BBC, I got the unique opportunity to see how this production took shape. I got involved when the series had been commissioned but hadn’t been filmed yet. Of course, lots of work has already...