Healthy Start: How small behavioural changes help manage stress
Whether it’s due to deadlines at work, an upcoming exam or a rocky personal relationship, we’ve no doubt all felt stress at some point in our lives. And while a certain amount of stress can help to mo...
27 Jan 202526min
How music therapy can heal our bodies and brains
Many of us listen to music every day, perhaps to help us relax in the evening after a hard day’s work, get us through a tough workout or maybe even to allow us to feel closer to absent loved ones. The...
24 Jan 202532min
Healthy Start: How taking up new hobbies can boost your mental health
Whether it’s a sport, painting or spending hours buried in puzzles, there is a clear link between our experience of hobbies and our mental health. Part of our Healthy Start series, we spoke to Karen M...
20 Jan 202522min
How science can help us tackle racism
Most of us like to think we live in an equal society that offers the same opportunities to all. But unfortunately, hundreds of scientific studies say otherwise. Racial bias is essentially everywhere, ...
17 Jan 202540min
Healthy Start: How to cut down your social media use
With a smartphone in our pockets at all times, social media is only ever a few clicks away. With this, problematic social media use is easy to fall into. As part of our Healthy Start series, we spoke ...
13 Jan 202526min
Why smell is our most underrated sense
It’s commonly thought that when compared to other members of the animal kingdom we humans have a particularly poor sense of smell. But this couldn’t be further from the truth. Modern research has prov...
10 Jan 202528min
Healthy Start: How to make goals and stick to them
This time of the year lots of us will be setting new goals for the future. Be it getting fitter, reading more or even writing that novel we always suspected we had in us. But why do so many of us fail...
6 Jan 202525min
The power of optimism
Be it the recent outbreak of wars around the world, the COVID-19 pandemic or the unfortunate personal events that will undoubtedly befall us at some points in our lives, it can sometimes be difficult ...
3 Jan 202529min
