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Grief and COVID-19: Mourning what we know, who we miss and the way we say goodbye
Health, Sports & Psychology

Grief and COVID-19: Mourning what we know, who we miss and the way we say goodbye

...et al, 2020). Additionally, leisure activities have been limited since in most countries, children have not been allowed to access playgrounds, or social group activities and sports clubs have been closed (Fegert et al, 2020). This disruption has impacted upon the way children learn, grow, play, behave, interact and manage emotions. Quarantine measures can induce...
Unmasking inequalities: what COVID-19 revealed about the degree awarding gap at The Open University
Digital & Computing

Unmasking inequalities: what COVID-19 revealed about the degree awarding gap at The Open University

...institutional barriers behind the degree awarding gap and practical ways to close it...The COVID-19 pandemic shone a harsh light on the entrenched inequalities that shape the educational experiences of ethnic minority students in UK higher education. At The Open University, our eSTEeM-funded project sought to examine how the pandemic affected these students’ learning...
Compassion and care: staff experiences of death, the role of bereavement policies in higher education
Health, Sports & Psychology

Compassion and care: staff experiences of death, the role of bereavement policies in higher education

...et al., 2017). It sets out ‘Employment quality’ and ‘Work-life balance’ as two of the aspects of ‘good work’. As part of creating healthy workspaces, employers who are aware of the strains everyday life can place upon their paid employees can help by establishing clear policies for how common stressful situations may be contractually handled by the employer....
Will Brexit spell the end of fishing quotas?
Nature & Environment

Will Brexit spell the end of fishing quotas?

...institutions, particularly for the small-scale sector, can manage some quota functions. An online peer-to-peer quota swapping platform would allow fishers to control their quota allocations by exchanging the species they have with the species they need. Fishing quotas should help pay for management. The costs of managing fisheries is high, and the fishing industry should...
Understanding ADHD
Health, Sports & Psychology

Understanding ADHD

...et al., 2018). Estimates of the worldwide prevalence of ADHD are around 6 in 100 children and adolescents and 3 in 100 adults (Spencer et al., 2002; Moffitt et al., 2015). What do you notice about prevalence rates in the two age groups? Around twice as many children and adolescents have ADHD compared with adults. This difference in prevalence was initially thought to...
Level 2: Intermediate 12 hrs
How we talk about Savile
Society, Politics & Law

How we talk about Savile

...institutional responsibility, but director general Tony Hall has accepted that the question of whether BBC bosses knew of Savile’s abusive behaviour does nothing to address the question: “How could you not have known?” In this sense, the “macho culture” Smith identifies takes on an institutional character – institutional sexism – which the BBC clearly can...
London's 1818 public health crisis
History & The Arts

London's 1818 public health crisis

...Institution for the Cure and Prevention of the same; and who were empowered to report their Observations thereupon to the house, together with the minutes of the Evidence taken before them. have agreed upon the following. Your Committee having summoned before them Physicians from the principal hospitals in the Metropolis, proceeded in the first place to inquire into the...
An introduction to Open Educational Resources (OER)
Education & Development

An introduction to Open Educational Resources (OER)

...institutional OER initiatives. These will include MIT's open courseware, Carnegie Mellon's Open Learning Initiative and The Open University's OpenLearn. You will get a flavour of how different OER initiatives design and present the content for their audiences. This OpenLearn course will also give you the opportunity to find, discuss and redesign some OER material. You can...