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Supporting university students with a mental health condition
Health, Sports & Psychology

Supporting university students with a mental health condition

...education in recent years, with student mental health suggested to be ‘in crisis’. A recent UK parliamentary report stated that student mental health difficulties have increased six-fold since 2010 (Lewis and Bolton, 2023). Recent studies by Lewis and Stiebahl (2025) and Mason et al. (2025) suggest that the growing prevalence is a long-term problem and global issue,...
‘Making Food Allergies Your Business’ Podcast Series on safer dining
Health, Sports & Psychology

‘Making Food Allergies Your Business’ Podcast Series on safer dining

...educates on what food allergies are and how they can severely affect health and wellbeing, and restrict social freedoms such as eating out of the home...While food allergies were once thought to be more common in children, they are now more prevalent in adults. With 1 in 20 adults in the UK with a confirmed food allergy (Food Standards Agency 2024), we hear from the food...
Managing virtual project teams
Money & Business

Managing virtual project teams

...educational and professional qualifications and licences relevant experience communication and numeracy personal characteristics, e.g. physical characteristics if they are required for the job willingness to travel team-building or administrative skills. Job descriptions and person specifications can be used for job advertisements, interviews and any other recruitment and...
How did the referendum polls get it wrong - again?
Science, Maths & Technology

How did the referendum polls get it wrong - again?

...education. Graduates tend to be social liberals, while those with few, if any, educational qualifications are inclined to be social conservatives. Age also matters too, with younger people tending to be more socially liberal. Pollsters in the UK have less experience of measuring this dimension of politics. They do not, for example, necessarily collect information on the...
Has media literacy become self-destructive?
Education & Development

Has media literacy become self-destructive?

...education approach, but I don’t remember how the topic of pregnancy came up. What I do remember is her telling me that she and her friends talked a lot about pregnancy and “diseases” she could get through sex. As I probed further, she matter-of-factly explained a variety of “facts” she had heard that were completely inaccurate. You couldn’t get pregnant until...
How can digital books support children’s learning?
Education & Development

How can digital books support children’s learning?

...educational apps] Digital books have several practical assets that position them ahead of print books: e-books are readily available on devices that children from low-income families already have in their hands. Individual titles are cheaper to buy and easier to distribute on scale. It follows that replacing digital reading with print reading would remove access to texts...
Danielle Martin
Education & Development

Danielle Martin

...education for a few years, Danielle discovered OpenLearn, through which she discovered a love of psychology, which ultimately led to her returning to education with The Open University. As she says, ‘I’ve become a lifelong learner!’...[Danielle Martin]Danielle is studying for a BSc in Psychology at The OU, starting her third module in October 2022, but it all...
‘Nobody can say to me that I can’t do it’: Exploring the study journey of female students from South Asian backgrounds
Education & Development

‘Nobody can say to me that I can’t do it’: Exploring the study journey of female students from South Asian backgrounds

...education are well documented. In our university context this good pass awarding gap significantly appears in the final level of study. Why is this and what can we do about it?...Our scholarship project focused on the experience of South Asian female students in their final year(s) of university study. We were particularly interested in the experiences of students who...