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Co-production – challenges and opportunities for the Higher Education curriculum
Health, Sports & Psychology

Co-production – challenges and opportunities for the Higher Education curriculum

...health, care and social work education is well established. Collaborating in equal partnerships via ‘co-production’ can facilitate this engagement. For the purposes of co-production in the educational curriculum, this means that people with lived experiences of using social work services are included as equals within the course team. Resources are recommended at the...
Imagination: The missing mystery of philosophy
History & The Arts

Imagination: The missing mystery of philosophy

...mental and the physical – and interceding between one soul and another. For Aristotle, the imagination – or phantasia – was a kind of bridge between sensation and thought, supplying the images or ‘phantasms’ without which thought could not occur. Descartes argued that the imagination was not an essential part of the mind, since it dealt with images in the brain...
What happens to you when you read?
Health, Sports & Psychology

What happens to you when you read?

...mental wellbeing in some distressing times in history...What happens to you when you read?: 1 Stories: what do you remember? - Human beings are avid consumers of stories, whether they are in the form of large formal stories such as novels, or plays, or in the form of much smaller and more diffuse stories, such as soap operas or gossip. Stories also appear to be important,...
What is a Professional Doctorate?
Education & Development

What is a Professional Doctorate?

...Health and Social Care graduate) and Dr Pauline Lyseight-Jones (Doctorate in Education graduate) talk about their experiences of undertaking their doctoral studies. You may find that their experiences relate to your own professional context. Transcript In the following video students and supervisors explain the main characteristics of the Doctorate in Education at the...
Reading: re-asserting the potency of the personal
Education & Development

Reading: re-asserting the potency of the personal

...wellbeing; they represent the basis of sound relationships and a trusting classroom ethos and can be fostered through talk and interaction about texts, potentially leading to social action. Their team’s work with schools has myriad connections to CPRT’s aims for primary education. As Robin Alexander’s recent CPRT submission to the House of Commons Education...
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Money & Business

Developing career resilience

...mental health – it’s important to prioritise your wellbeing. Try to open up and talk to someone you trust about your feelings. As you can see from this advice, using support networks and prioritising self-care are key to maintaining career resilience in this situation. When someone is made redundant, although the impact is felt most significantly by that individual,...
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A discussion on melanoma (skin cancer) as a teenager
Health, Sports & Psychology

A discussion on melanoma (skin cancer) as a teenager

...Health and Social Care courses and qualifications. Jack Brodie, a former young person with cancer, recounts his experience with Dr Wendy McInally who has spent over 25 years in clinical and educational delivery environments across the United Kingdom and internationally. Wendy has built a comprehensive research and education portfolio around children and young people with...
Surrogacy around the world
Health, Sports & Psychology

Surrogacy around the world

...country allows surrogates to legally accept payment for surrogacy from foreigners? Which European country only permits those in a heterosexual partnership or a single female to be intended parents? Professor Lesley Hoggart and Dr Sarah Earle, reveal some of the different rules in place for surrogacy around the world..._Find out more about The Open University's Health and...