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My unique path to university: real stories
Education & Development

My unique path to university: real stories

...health challenges and adapted to life as a student. [My Path to University: Tom's Story] Andrea's story Andrea shares his perspective as a young carer and the first member of his family to go to university. [My Path to University: Andrea's Story] Liam's story Liam shares his experience of joining university later in life and his hopes for the future. [My Path to...
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Fit for office - the dark triad and selection of MPs
Society, Politics & Law

Fit for office - the dark triad and selection of MPs

...public. A central part in addressing this is the question whether the choice of parliamentary candidates and MPs is fit for purpose. Considering a trust perspective we can distinguish between competence based and goodwill trust, the latter being a function of integrity and benevolence. In this article, and what this tells us about the system of recruitment and selection...
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Can engineering help improve patient safety?
Science, Maths & Technology

Can engineering help improve patient safety?

...Health Service and in healthcare worldwide. She has recently taken up the role as RAND Professor of Health Services Research, having moved here from the University of Leicester. It is, she admits, going to be a challenge. Many different policies and approaches have been tried to date, but few with widespread success, and often with unintended consequences. Financial...
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OpenLearn's response to the pandemic
Education & Development

OpenLearn's response to the pandemic

...Health and social care workers As the Coronavirus pandemic took hold, NHS and local authority leaders through the UK called on hundreds of thousands of former health and social care workers to return to front-line roles. OpenLearn responded by collaborating with retired and active health and social care practitioners across The Open University to build and publish its...
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The arts in Participatory Action Research
Health, Sports & Psychology

The arts in Participatory Action Research

...health resilience study, enabled a group of women in Guyana to address the violent and abusive domestic environments facing them. They had left their homes and communities to live in a sheltered domestic violence refuge with their children. Drawing pictures, reciting poems, and writing stories about those traumatic experiences helped them to develop positive thinking and...
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The benefits of mindfulness and five common myths surrounding it
Health, Sports & Psychology

The benefits of mindfulness and five common myths surrounding it

...health and abilities, as well as experiencing the loss of a loved one. Given life’s challenges it is likely that we will experience periods of low mood or anxiety. For some people these experiences will be short-term in nature, while for others they can last for a long time. For those where their problems are severe and enduring, formal healthcare services are...
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Strangers on a train platform: Refugees feel the hostility of Hungary
Society, Politics & Law

Strangers on a train platform: Refugees feel the hostility of Hungary

...public campaign with placards telling migrants in Hungarian that they should not come to Hungary to take Hungarian jobs, threaten Hungarian welfare and attack public safety. As a result, many residents of Hungary’s border territories live in fear that their lands and houses are on the brink of invasion. First came the Kosovars and now refugees and migrants from the...
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Introducing the Philosophiae Naturalis Principia Mathematical
History & The Arts

Introducing the Philosophiae Naturalis Principia Mathematical

...publication of this work, the most acute and universally learned Mr. Edmund Halley not only assisted me with his pains in correcting the press and taking care of the schemes, but it was to his solicitations that its becoming public is owing; for when he had obtained of me my demonstrations of the figure of the celestial orbits, he continually pressed me to communicate the...
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