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Online dance sessions beneficial to unpaid carers

Research at the OU finds that online dancing for unpaid adult carers proves beneficial to their mental and physical health.

6th March 2024
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Learning on Screen award nomination for OU interactive

An interactive resource written by Dr Philippa Waterhouse, Senior Lecturer in Health, has been shortlisted for a 2023 Learning on Screen award.

5th April 2023
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‘Groundbreaking’ research among WELS projects nominated for 14 Research Excellence Awards

Research by WELS academics has resulted in 14 nominations at this year’s Open University Research Excellence Awards, including a project heralded as ‘groundbreaking’ by Dame Elizabeth Fradd DBE.

15th July 2022

Promoting Resilience and Wellbeing through co-Design (PRIDE): The PRIDE Rainbow Toolkit Project

teenage boy sits overlooking a field. He's wearing a hooded sweatshirt and facing away from the camera. He's wearing headphones and looking at his phoneDr Mathijs Lucassen, in conjunction with Professor Louise Wallace and Dr Raj Samra, has been awarded a grant from the Public Health Intervention Development (PHIND) Scheme to co-design an online rainbow wellbeing toolkit to promote wellbeing and resilience in LGBTQ+ adolescents.

5th January 2021

WELS supports digital therapy for LGBTIQ+ youth in COVID-19

A happy LGBT couple embracing each other and smiling. The lady on the left is wearing a white sleeveless t-shirt with a rainbow image on itDr Mathijs Lucassen is supporting updates to an existing digital therapy program in order to better support the mental health of lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender/trans, intersex and questioning (LGBTIQ+) youth.

2nd December 2020
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