Ian Macdonald

BBC Radio 5 Live - 5 Live Sport: All About..., The Team behind the Team: AI - sport's new tactic? What impact is artificial intelligence having on sport and what does the future hold?

Check out this episode of the BBC/OU The Team Behind the Team podcast which explores the impact of AI in sport. It features #TeamOUsport academics Mark Antrobus & Nichola Kentzer alongside experts from football and cycling.
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New blog, “They could be the future of women’s football, but it’s not happening yet...” Why are so many elite female footballers hesitant to move into coaching? By Dr Laura Wallace
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#womensfootball #femalefootballers #femalecoaches #wiseannetwork #WiSEAN

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Have you visited our blog yet? The OU Sport & Fitness Team blog is used by #TeamOUsport staff to share their insights and commentary on sporting events, stories & topics from an academic perspective. We have a wealth of articles so check it out now!
www.open.ac.uk/blogs/OU-Spo...

Graphic illustration representing calmness and balance. A woman is sitting at a desk with a laptop open in front of her. Lines from the laptop lead to three symbols floating above: a music note, a calm smiling face emoji, and a heart with a line representing the heart rhythm going across it. The woman is wearing headphones and has her hands pressed together in front of her, indicating a peaceful state of mind.

For many online learners, use of #DigitalTools is part of their strategy for managing emotions while studying. Read our latest #OU_LD blog article from Jake on why #EmotionRegulation matters for students. 😌
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Dyslexia shouldn’t be a barrier to you successfully completing a degree. In the articles below OU Sport & Fitness students Yasmin Reeve and Jasmine Bunting share their experiences and tips for dyslexic students.
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BBC Radio 5 Live - 5 Live Sport: All About..., The Team behind the Team: Sport's drive for data How is data used in sport including in golf, cycling and by Premier League clubs?

We are excited to announce the launch of a new OU/BBC Podcast series 'The Team Behind the Team'. The 4 episodes featuring #TeamOUsport staff @nicholakentzer.bsky.social, @etelligentcoach.bsky.social, Ben Langdown & Ben Oakley explore how athletes are supported.

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Here's the latest episode in the @welspraxis.bsky.social podcast series I've been working on. It was a pleasure to interview Prof Joan Simons about her research on how students with mental health conditions perceive tutor support during their studies. Have a listen at the link below 👇

✐ Can classroom mental health lessons actually harm some students?

This new scoping review looked at CBT & mindfulness-based school interventions and found troubling signs of harm in some cases.

#Schools #YouthMentalHealth #CBT #Mindfulness #UniversalInterventions

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Outstanding new research ✨

Jonathan Edwards' giant world record leap – what can we learn from his long career? Jonathan Edwards, a British triple jumper has held the world record for 25 years now, with a distance of 18.29m. What's the secret to his success? Our videos and article explores...

Today marks the 30th anniversary of Jonathan Edwards' Triple Jump World Record! A few year ago #TeamOUsport 's Ben Oakley explored with Jonathan what it takes to achieve such longevity
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✨ New(ish!) publication alert ✨

Toward Epistemic Justice: Using a Multimodal Interpretative Phenomenological Analysis Methodological Approach in Research With Autistic Children

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Part of a special IPA issue in @ijqmonline.bsky.social

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To all of our #TeamOUsport students getting their results this today - congratulations whether you got a Pass 1,2,3,4 or if you didn't pass this time round. We are proud of each and every one of you because we know how hard you've worked and how difficult it can be sometimes 👏

My old man went religiously to The Arsenal in the 70s-90s, but after moving to Waterford always said nothing compared to an All Ireland final

🧠🏫 AWARE and INSPIRE?
School mental health trials show mixed results and unexpected harms.

The Education for Wellbeing programme tested universal mental health approaches with 30k+ pupils.

Some benefits, but also unexpected harms, especially for vulnerable students.

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New report published today from @edudetective.bsky.social and I today:
The Problem with Boys? is the first of three reports which explore educators perceptions of young working-class men in the classroom.

www.boysimpact.com/s/boysreport...

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Well, if I must...

More positively, very excited for our team to also be talking about this at QMiP tomorrow - a coproduced new methodology for conducting co-analysis with young people collaborativeresearch.co.uk/dca

Forgot I'd written this. Funny it has resurfaced today, because I'm speaking about this tomorrow at QMiP!

YouTube video by The Open University Library 3 ways the OU Library supports your studies

We're sharing bite-sized YouTube Shorts to help #OUstudents make the most of the Library - from finding the right resources to boosting their #studyskills.

Check out our latest Short mini-series featuring 3 tips on how we support students: youtube.com/shorts/4Jbp4...

More to come - stay tuned! 💙

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The Go-Betweens live at Glastonbury in 1986. Great set by their best line-up, heroically captured in full on a camcorder
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How common is this in professional football ⚽️? An intensive, full-time intern role as a performance analyst that pays nothing. In return, they ask you to bring experience, your own laptop (MacBook) and you must provide your own transport. Yet they’re “committed to equality”.

Looking forward to hosting this event in my role as Lead of @welspraxis.bsky.social Social Media Scholarship Hub. I've had the privilege of hearing @andytattersall.bsky.social speak about this in the past and will be very insightful. If you're interested in attending, sign up with the link below.

If 20% of employees in a large business needed adjustments that were different from and additional to those provided for everyone, wouldn’t it make sense to look at the overall working environment? Wouldn’t that be a more logical and cost-effective approach?

We have to be open to how our practice influences student behaviours around AI, not just framing them as the "problem"

The student voice in this is far more enlightening than the headline or the figures. An important Q is how do we give students skills and confidence in developing their own voice in assessments, rather than striving for an almost unattainable perfect "academic" style?

JCPP Advances | ACAMH Child Development Journal | Wiley Online Library Co-design of new interventions, including autistic interventions, is now strongly advocated; but there are very few reports to date of the actual process of such co-design in practice with the autist...

Co-design paper that set the direction of our STARCATs trial - autism, anxiety, parent-led CBT - dx.doi.org/10.1002/jcv2...

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How can universities create more inclusive and empowering experiences for disabled students?

This research on ORO explores systemic barriers and the fight for equity in higher education: oro.open.ac.uk/97435/

#ThesisThursday #GAAD2025

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Just 1 week to go until Praxis Festival of Scholarship 2025 on Wed 21 May 2025, 10 - 4 GMT+1, Online. We're opening the festival to the wider HE Sector—let’s collaborate, share and innovate! @openuniversity.bsky.social Get your ticket here 👉 www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/praxis-fes... #Praxis2025 #HigherEd

if a pre-service teacher on a university teacher ed programme is told to modify their accent on school placement, then the university should intervene. too many universities are complicit in the reproduction of harmful ideologies about language which make new teachers feel unwelcome and inadequate.