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Health, Sports & Psychology
Nutritional psychiatry is the future of mental health treatment
It is time for medical education to take nutrition seriously argues Dr Joyce Cavaye, Senior Lecturer in the School of Health, Wellbeing and Social Care at The Open University.
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Money & Business
A short guide to the Customs Union: An OpenLearn watching brief
Want to understand the question of being inside or outside the European Customs Union - and why it matters? Our collection of short videos will help make things a little clearer.
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Money & Business
Should we tax robots who replace humans in the workplace?
Could the taxation system provide a solution to the rise of automation?
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Society, Politics & Law
Revealed: what sexism in call centres can teach us about sexism in society
Call centres operate on the sexist attitudes embedded in society argues Dr Anna Kristina Hultgren, Senior Lecturer in English Language and Applied Linguistics at The Open University.
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Nature & Environment
Information blackout at the Council of Europe?
The Council of Europe's crucial activities come with a deep responsibility to ensure public access to its historic decision-making. Unfortunately, this has been sadly lacking for a number of years.
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Society, Politics & Law
The impact of Jacob Zuma on the ANC and South Africa
South Africa struggles with a leader who knows he must relinquish office, but refuses to go. The misery of such a situation is tarnishing his party and his country, says Cheryl Hendricks.
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Money & Business
What is leading to a decline in trust in charities?
Even before the damaging run of allegations of sexual impropriety amongst some Oxfam staff, trust in the charity sector was falling. Jonathan Garton suggests why this might be.
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Digital & Computing
DRM explained
The EFF's John Perry Barlow and Ray Corrigan of The Open University decry attempts to provide digital locks on content.
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Money & Business
Does handing a company on to the children work?
Research shows the first causal evidence that dynastic family firms have worse management practices, says Daniela Scur.
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Money & Business
What does Brexit mean for imports and exports?
When the UK has left the European Union, it's probable international trade will require new layers of bureaucracy and increased customs activity, warns Andrew Grainger.
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Money & Business
Understand how interest works on your savings account
Want to know more about how interest earnings build up (or 'compound') on a savings account? This short video uses an example to show how it all works.
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Money & Business
How have family budgets changed in sixty years?
The government has been gathering data about household outgoings for six decades. It tracks social and structural changes over those times, says the ONS' Joanna Bulman.