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Music and mental health: the parallels between Victorian asylum treatments and modern social prescribing
Health, Sports & Psychology

Music and mental health: the parallels between Victorian asylum treatments and modern social prescribing

...classes and choirs – is known as social prescribing. Music-based activities may be prescribed to help support patients’ mental health, combat isolation, encourage physical activity, and keep an active brain. While social prescribing is a relatively new practice, the use of music as a therapeutic tool is not. The first widespread use of music as a therapeutic tool can...
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Culture and Connections: The Scots-Irish experience in America
OpenLearn Ireland

Culture and Connections: The Scots-Irish experience in America

...class. They especially resented having to pay so-called tithes, a form of taxation, for the upkeep of the established Anglican church (Dwyer-Ryan, 2013, p. 98). Most Presbyterians, because they did not own the land they farmed, were also excluded from Irish political life. Poor economic conditions, especially in the first half of the eighteenth century in Ireland, also...
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Hearing Race: Can language use lead to racism?
Languages

Hearing Race: Can language use lead to racism?

...class and context. Depending on where you are from in the UK, you may be ‘very pleased’, ‘well-chuffed’, ‘made-up’, or ‘buzzing’ about these differences. You may speak SE in different accents too; with Received Pronunciation, a Cockney accent, or a Bristolian twang. The importance of SE, however, cannot be denied, though its place at the top of the...
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Will the next Secretary-General of the United Nations be a woman?
Society, Politics & Law

Will the next Secretary-General of the United Nations be a woman?

...de Nations]UNCTAD Secretary-General Rebeca Grynspan at a press conference, Palais des Nations, Geneva, Switzerland. Candidates for the position must be exceptional, possessing the appropriate skills and abilities, a reputation for upholding ‘the highest standards of efficiency, competence and integrity’ and a commitment to the principles of the UN’s Charter – the...
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Introduction to Planetary Protection
Science, Maths & Technology

Introduction to Planetary Protection

...variability to emerge, resulting in a wide variety of organic molecules. You might be familiar with the term ‘organic’ in different contexts, for example, organic foods are those produced without synthetic fertilisers, and ‘organic’ is often used to describe anything associated with biology. However, organic molecules and the science of organic chemistry are...
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Level 1: Introductory 5 hrs
Living psychology: animal minds
Health, Sports & Psychology

Living psychology: animal minds

...de Waal presents and discusses examples of collaboration and co-operation between animals (including in problem-solving). He frames the need for co-operation as part of the basis of morality. His discussion includes some early work with chimpanzees, which led to the ‘cooperating elephants’ study that you learned about in Section 5.2 of this course, as well as footage...
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Level 2: Intermediate 12 hrs
The First World War: trauma and memory
History & The Arts

The First World War: trauma and memory

...de Triomphe. [Described image] Figure 2 The unveiling of the cenotaph in Whitehall, 1920. In London, a cenotaph – which literally means ‘empty tomb’ – was also established in 1919. This was initially a temporary structure, but due to its popularity a permanent tomb was built and unveiled in 1920. Symbolically significant sites such as these, along with countless...
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Level 1: Introductory 9 hrs
Women and Workplace Struggles: Scotland 1900-2022
Society, Politics & Law

Women and Workplace Struggles: Scotland 1900-2022

...class struggles within the workplace and in working class communities. Public sector and private sector work With the introduction of devolution and the re-opening of the Scottish Parliament in 1999, key areas of public sector employment – and employment in agencies or organisations that had been privatised but were still nominally considered to be ‘public sector’...
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