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Health and social care

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Take a few moments for yourself

Take a few moments for yourself

A blog from Dr Sāgaradevī Barratt about using mindfulness to improve your well-being and resilience, particularly in the run up to starting university when you're managing exam stress and the application process

Sāgaradevī Barratt

13 February 2024

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Unlock the Wonders of STEM Learning with O'Reilly for Higher Education

Unlock the Wonders of STEM Learning with O'Reilly for Higher Education

There are thousands of online resources, apps and research tools available to assist your studies or research in STEM subjects, but where do you start, and which resources are reliable?

Greg Cadge, Danilo Petti

04 January 2024

Vlog

An Apple a Day: How to Address the Great Global Public Health and Wellbeing Challenges

An Apple a Day: How to Address the Great Global Public Health and Wellbeing Challenges

Professor Jules Pretty, Professor Mariachiara Di Cesare

05 April 2023

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Overcoming barriers to physical activity

Dr Claire Wicks presents the findings of a green exercise intervention developed for women living in Colchester.

Dr Claire Wicks

19 January 2023

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The Heads Together Project

Recent advancements in medical care have not sufficiently translated to social care support for people with brain injury. The Heads Together project seeks to better brain injury social work education.

Caroline Bald, Akudo Amadiegwu

03 November 2022

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Volunteering and mental health

Dr Claire Wicks looks at who benefits the most from volunteering

Dr Claire Wicks

25 August 2022

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Benefits of physical activities for mental health

We know physical activity is good for our mental health – so why are we ignoring the evidence?

Dr Claire Wicks

25 August 2022

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“I live and work in Japan but my mind is here, at Essex!”

Read Nozomi Oyama’s story, a postgraduate research student studying remotely at the University of Essex whilst working as an Occupational Therapist in Japan.

Nozomi Oyama

19 April 2022

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An Inclusive and Decolonised Health and Social Care Curriculum

An Inclusive and Decolonised Health and Social Care Curriculum

In this blog post Akudo Amadiegwu and Professor Winifred Eboh examine two scenarios in health and social care and discuss how decolonising the health and social care curriculums will improve outcomes in healthcare and social care.

Professor Winifred Eboh, Akudo Amadiegwu

31 March 2022

Podcast

Patient Involvement Improves lives - the Louder Than Words Podcast

Patient Involvement Improves lives - the Louder Than Words Podcast

Research and practice in health and social care needs patients to be meaningfully involved in gathering evidence and making the decisions that impact their lives. This approach improves decision making and delivers better outcomes. Professor Jules Pretty speaks to Senior Research Officer Tracey Johns, Research Officer Sally Burrows and Professor Peter Beresford from the School of Health and Social Care at the University of Essex.

Professor Peter Beresford, Professor Jules Pretty, Tracey Johns

13 January 2022

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