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Remembering Peter and John
Society, Politics & Law

Remembering Peter and John

...Open University...[The OU's Berrill Building] Society Matters aims to help students of The Open University, particularly those in Social Sciences, to make connections between their studies and the wider world. It can be useful to reflect on who has helped to create and maintain the ideas of the Faculty. In the light of the recent deaths of a tutor, who retired in 2015 and...
What's in your toolbox?
Health, Sports & Psychology

What's in your toolbox?

...resources, shifts perspective and resolves conflicts between competing desires, needs, and life domains (Kashdan, et al., 2010). Definitions by therapists working on increasing psychological flexibility define it as, ‘the ability to fully contact the present moment and the thoughts and feelings it contains without needless defence ... persisting or changing behaviour in...
Stories from our Black students
Money & Business

Stories from our Black students

...educational purposes if The Open University is credited. More details are available here. Acknowledgements Catherine Comfort would like to thank the students who contributed to the research and who talked about their lives. Their names have been changed and they contributed anonymously to the PhD student researcher, Amna Sarwer. Catherine would also like to thank Amna for...
The Heidelberg Project: A Detroit Story
Society, Politics & Law

The Heidelberg Project: A Detroit Story

...education. This material forms part of the Open University course International development: making sense of a changing world... The power of art Jenenne explains how a wrong turn changed her life. Joining the Heidelberg Project Jenenne discusses how joining the Heidelberg Project impacted her life. A career in Detroit Jenenne’s father Dan, describes his professional...
Religion in history: conflict, conversion and coexistence
History & The Arts

Religion in history: conflict, conversion and coexistence

...Open University course AA307 Religion in history: conflict, conversion and coexistence... Religion in history: conflict, conversion and co-existence A short introduction to this album. Christianity in context Professor David Chichester casts an illuminating eye over the global history of Christianity, from its early rise to modern expansions and prominence in Africa and...
Enabling parents to improve children’s services: Walking the Walk in Evelina London Children’s Hospital
Health, Sports & Psychology

Enabling parents to improve children’s services: Walking the Walk in Evelina London Children’s Hospital

...Open University's Health and Social Care courses and qualifications. Walking the Walk is an experienced-based approach to quality improvement. It has previously been successfully utilised in acute hospitals, care homes, and GP surgeries. It draws on people’s lived experiences to provide settings with feedback and recommendations about the care environment. It involves...
Is your social media use impacting your future?
Health, Sports & Psychology

Is your social media use impacting your future?

...Open University's Nursing and Healthcare courses and qualifications. In the digital age, almost all of us have a ‘digital footprint’. This is the data you leave behind when you engage with the Internet and can include social media ‘likes’, posts, pictures or emails. In other words, we have some information about us on the Internet; this could be something as...
Budget 2017: Instant reactions
Money & Business

Budget 2017: Instant reactions

...open to talent from all countries. The rhetoric was strong and the jokes were feeble. What was required – and what was lacking – was a long-term plan on how to deal with the challenges ahead. Simon Wren-Lewis, Professor of Economic Policy at the Blavatnik School of Government, Oxford University What any macroeconomist should ask of this budget is: has the chancellor...