8 ways to manage your worries
Now, more than ever, people are utilising new techniques to manage a multitude of worries. While we are all weathering the same pandemic storm, our experiences…
Author Robyn Slingsby
Robyn Slingsby
Robyn is Senior Manager (Social Media Strategy) in Communications. Formerly a newspaper journalist, she is an experienced comms professional now leading the University's multi award-winning Social Media Engagement Team. She likes walking her cocker spaniel, Ralphie, reading crime novels and anything that involves laughing.
8 ways to create a happier mindset
Neill Boddington is a Mental Health Adviser at The Open University. Here are his eight top tips for creating a happier mindset… 1. Positivity Looking at…
7 mindfulness exercises (and some mythbusters too)
The concept of mindfulness, however practiced, helps you not to fret over what’s happened or to worry over what’s to come, explains Neill Boddington, a mental…
Learning online? Advice from Open University students (the experts!)
As UK universities ‘pivot online’ and students transition to a new way of learning, The Open University community – as experts in this field – have…
Why are there UK network issues?
The UK broadband networks and the national academic network have been experiencing a significant increase in traffic, in light of Government announcements around the Coronavirus pandemic…
PCF9: Discussing the future of education and lifelong learning
The opening day of the ninth Pan-Commonwealth Forum saw 520 educational leaders and practitioners from 61 countries unite to discuss and debate the future of education…
Lifelong learning should be a reality, not a slogan
“Lifelong learning can no longer be a slogan. It has to be a practical reality.” That was the message fronted by Andy Haldane, Chief Economist of…
OU students’ guide to beating writer’s block
Writing can be fulfilling and frustrating in equal measure. When you’re in full flow and the ideas keep coming, it feels great and you never want…
5 ways to celebrate the OU’s 50th
On Tuesday 23rd April it will be 50 years since The Open University was awarded its Royal Charter back in 1969. And it’s been a blast.…
‘I can’t imagine a more important institution to support and love’
Baroness Martha Lane Fox, the sixth Chancellor of The Open University, shares her excitement about the university’s big birthday and “can’t imagine a more important institution…
