Nature & Environment
Explore your digestive system
An interactive exploration of how the digestive system works...Take it further Try one of our delicious recipes. Discover the new approach to health offered by healthy living centres.
Health, Sports & Psychology
Why are caves being used as hospitals in Syria?
...health workers in Syria have become so frequent that medical relief charities have been forced to build hospitals in bunkers and deep into the side of mountains. The Syrian American Medical Society (SAMS), which provides medical relief across Syria and to refugees in neighbouring countries, now has 22 underground clinics in Syria. These care for some of the millions of...
Nature & Environment
The ISIS winter: The environmental impact of Middle East conflict
...health consequences of exposure to conflict pollution soon faded after the fires were extinguished,” reads a report by the peace organisation PAX, issued during the UN Environment Assembly held last month (4-6 December) in the Kenyan capital Nairobi. Focusing on the pollution legacy the war leaves for the local population, the report says that “although the...
Health, Sports & Psychology
Improving the everyday lives of carers
...Health and Social Care courses and qualifications. [Image of a young carer and an older person talking] Over a 100 million people in Europe care for a family member or friend. Many of them are caring for an older person and indeed many are older people themselves - caring for a spouse, sibling or parent who has reached great age. As the populations in Europe increasingly...
History & The Arts
Introducing consciousness
...mental states – our perceptions, sensations, feelings and thoughts. As the philosopher John Locke (1632–1704) put it, ‘Consciousness is the perception of what passes in a Man's own mind’ (Locke 1961, vol. 1, 87). (Previously ‘conscience’ had been used in a similar way, but that word was coming to be used to refer to an inner moral sense.) Again, some of our...
Health, Sports & Psychology
Understanding depression and anxiety
...mental health issues, with a particular focus on stress. You will consider some risk and causal factors for some depression and anxiety disorders, and learn about the biology and psychology behind them...This free course, Understanding depression and anxiety, explores the causes of these mental health issues, with a particular focus on stress. You will consider some risk...
Education & Development
Bodies in transition – children starting school
...wellbeing. EdD student Vicky Preece explains how researching the experience of children starting school in England has highlighted ways in which this transition could go as smoothly as possible so that the impact is a positive one...[Photos from Vicky Preece] In order to understand the experience of children, my study also looks at the experiences of those around them;...
Health, Sports & Psychology
Introducing ageing
...mental health would occur (and in some cases dreading it)’ ‘Many participants were coping with several, often complex, health problems and described how their illnesses or disabilities had impacted on their daily lives’ ‘a retired professor was despondent that his memory appeared to be deteriorating markedly in his seventies’ a quote from June: ‘last time I...