Children and Young People with Cancer (MOOC)

National needs analysis undertaken for community eLearning resources for healthcare professionals, relating to children and young people with cancer

Hospital TV Series

This award-winning, OU-BBC co-production series shows how NHS hospital staff deal with the current challenges of providing healthcare to children and adults, including in urgent and emergency situations.

Hospital (TV series)

What are the connections between music and memory? Free interactive short course

This fun interactive explores the value of music in our everyday lives and how musical memories can be retained when other aspects of memory declines.

What are the connections between music and memory? (Interactive short course)

The Big C and Me Booklet

The Big C and Me was a booklet written by Mathijs Lucassen and Jan Draper to complement a 10 episode BBS series all about people living with cancer - This was a series, filmed over a year, that followed the lives of nine people suffering from cancer from diagnosis to treatment and beyond.

The Big C and Me

Jan and Mathijs also describe what it is like to work as academic advisors on OU/BBC collaborations such as this one.

People with dementia and meaning in music OpenLearn article

This Open Learn resource considers how music can make a difference to the wellbeing of a person with dementia and suggests practical strategies for music-making. It is a helpful resource when developing creative approaches to working with people with dementia or other memory conditions.

People with dementia and meaning in music (Open Learn resource)

Music, culture and dementia OpenLearn article

This Open Learn resource highlights how to make music culturally-relevant when supporting people with memory problems.

Music, culture and dementia (OL resource)

Our Dementia Choir TV Series

This OU-BBC co-production series followed a newly-formed choir of women and men with dementia as they rehearsed together, in preparation for a major concert performance. It shows how music can give hope to people living with a progressive illness and help them to learn new skills and enjoy life. Our Dementia Choir (TV series)

Living with a Learning Disability Free interactive short course

Living with a Learning Disability (Interactive short course)

Exploring learning disabilities: supporting belonging Free interactive short course

Exploring learning disabilities: supporting belonging (Interactive short course)

ARCLIGHT handbook for health and social care practitioners

This handbook guides practitioners in their work with communities, based on the findings of an exploratory community mental health resilience project undertaken in Guyana with health and social care practitioners using three case study communities.

ARCLIGHT handbook for health and social care practitioners. (PDF)