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Why friendships are vital to your wellbeing
Health, Sports & Psychology

Why friendships are vital to your wellbeing

...social connections can have a huge impact on our mental well-being and our ability to survive major challenges. For example, the stories of support and mutual appreciation told by individuals nominating a friend for Radio 4’s ‘All in the Mind Awards’, and those featured in that station’s ‘Listening Project’ series, all attest to the healing power of...
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A Peace of Us - The Good Friday Agreement Podcast
OpenLearn Ireland

A Peace of Us - The Good Friday Agreement Podcast

...worked for BBC Northern Ireland for four years before moving to London and joining Newsbeat in 2022. During the Covid-19 pandemic he presented Coronavirus Catch-up on BBC iPlayer. He’s been heard across Radio 4, 5Live and the BBC World Service, and is a regular reporter for The Catch-Up on BBC Three. [Photograph of our guest, Leesa Harker.]Guest: Leesa Harker, writer...
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Evolution and the human family
Science, Maths & Technology

Evolution and the human family

...work of Charles Darwin and the impact his ideas about evolution continue to have on today’s world. © The British Council 2009... Evolution and the family A short introduction to this album. How families have evolved What happens when you apply Darwin to human social structures? Ruth Mace explains the value of this approach. Dismantle the family with Darwinian tools The...
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Audio 27 mins
Secondary learning
Education & Development

Secondary learning

...social out there in the social world are used by us. We don’t internalise but we work with and make our own the ideas that were once social and become part of our inner world. Become part of, in his terms, our inner speech. So it’s not a copying of the outside world. This is a tool for working with ideas which are being developed in the social world......
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Level 3: Advanced 11 hrs
Abbie Barnes - Earth in Vision
Nature & Environment

Abbie Barnes - Earth in Vision

...social media, you’ve got YouTube and all of the online things to put your work out there, and of course everybody has mobile phones, they’ve got a little camcorder, just some form of technology on them to be able to produce a film, to take pictures. So as a young person I’d say, do you know, I just think it’s absolutely fantastic being able to get into this...
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Video 30 mins
The New Union Flag project: from an object of agitation to a space for communication
Society, Politics & Law

The New Union Flag project: from an object of agitation to a space for communication

...socially engaged art, community art and transgressive or agonistic art practices that I felt more comfortable with being called ‘an artist’. Rather than producing mere artifacts, my art has more to do with generating debate, creating platforms for communication, and occasionally activism – i.e. the work of a community facilitator. Now, even when I do produce...
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From insecurity to insecurity: Black and Ethnic Minority Europeans in the UK
Society, Politics & Law

From insecurity to insecurity: Black and Ethnic Minority Europeans in the UK

...sociality. One aspect which has perhaps not caught the public imagination arises from one of the calls of the pro-Brexit campaigners. They have emphasised that in demanding curbs on European migration, they are ‘calling for an end to discrimination in the treatment of people wanting to come here’ (“Fair and Controlled”, 2017). They argue that by controlling EU...
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Methods in Motion: Remaking experimental philosophy
History & The Arts

Methods in Motion: Remaking experimental philosophy

...work. I would argue that the XPhi movement has been useful in generating fertile debates about 'how we know', and in interrogating the role of 'lay' and 'expert' understandings for guiding philosophical enquiry. However, I would also argue that existing work in XPhi has suffered from methodological shortcomings and shortsightedness. Let me start by describing a commonly...
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