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Am I Normal? - an inaugural lecture by Professor Blaine Price
Miscellaneous

Am I Normal? - an inaugural lecture by Professor Blaine Price

...health technologies that automatically gather data about you and your lifestyle. Date: Tuesday 28 November Time: 6:00pm–7:00pm Venue: The Open University, the Berrill Theatre Blaine Price is Professor of Computing in the Faculty of Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics at The Open University (OU). His research interests focus on improving people’s...
Navigating Relationship Sex Education (RSE)
Education & Development

Navigating Relationship Sex Education (RSE)

...health, resistance, and contentious. The group agreed with Pilcher’s (2005, p.169) description of RSE as having a ‘contentious character’. [Image of the mentimeter question participants answered at the start of the session. When asked ’What words come to your mind when you hear the term Relationship Sex Education? Responses o the screen included: ’inclusive ‘,...
Why school-based sex education isn’t inclusive enough
Health, Sports & Psychology

Why school-based sex education isn’t inclusive enough

...health in the classroom, which could put them at risk. ...The provision and content of sex education in schools remains a widely debated and contentious subject. Increasingly, attention is being drawn to the ‘invisibility’ of lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) health issues and the need for more inclusive sex education in schools in Great Britain. So what...
Merry microbes: how might festive feasting affect your gut microbiota?
Science, Maths & Technology

Merry microbes: how might festive feasting affect your gut microbiota?

...health and they keep our bodies in balance; having healthy, diverse gut microbiota means we are less likely to get diseases because we are better equipped. They help us to maintain essential functions such as blood glucose control, metabolic rates and provide essential vitamins as well as helping us to ward off invading pathogens (microbes that can cause disease)....
Can yoga help us achieve sustainable development goals?
Health, Sports & Psychology

Can yoga help us achieve sustainable development goals?

...Health and Wellbeing courses Every year, 21st June is the International Day of Yoga As a spiritual practice, cosmic energy is important in yoga. This marks the day of summer solstice in the Northern Hemisphere, when the earth’s North Pole is most inclined towards the sun, of special significance. In 2015, the United Nations General Assembly declared 21 June as the...
Children are at risk from junk food advertisements on social media
Society, Politics & Law

Children are at risk from junk food advertisements on social media

...health is perhaps one of the greatest challenges. Young children cannot distinguish between advertising and editorial or entertainment content... Yet among all this debate about how social media has changed our lives, children’s exposure to advertising on social media is rarely discussed. This is ironic, as advertising pays for social media. It drives the design of new...
Social media: opportunities, risks and impact
Digital & Computing

Social media: opportunities, risks and impact

Whether you're studying, working, parenting or simply scrolling, social media shapes how we learn, communicate and engage with the world. This collection covers everything from digital literacy and fake news to education, health, politics and online identity.
Social problems: Who makes them?
Society, Politics & Law

Social problems: Who makes them?

...Health became a focus of public finance, provision and intervention rather than being left to private arrangements. For most of the nineteenth century unemployment was seen as something that people chose (by refusing to take work), while for most of the twentieth century it has been seen as something against which collective action and defence by the state was necessary....
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