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Does Germany need a smooth Brexit just as much as the UK?
Society, Politics & Law

Does Germany need a smooth Brexit just as much as the UK?

...work and statistical modelling by three economists at the Judge Business School of Cambridge University, I argued that the economic impact of Brexit (“hard” or “soft”) on the British economy is likely to be serious in the short run, but manageable if its government applies appropriate fiscal policies. The big loss from leaving, however, will be political and...
Selling Empire: Film
History & The Arts

Selling Empire: Film

...social purpose, it employed realism, framing authentic workers on the British North Sea herring fleets as types and their ordinary work as the drama, rather than using professional actors. It reflected Grierson’s vision of the documentary as the creative treatment of actuality, and as having a wider social role. When the EMB closed in 1933, key personnel were absorbed...
Which Poverty and Place: Why how we label different areas matters
Languages

Which Poverty and Place: Why how we label different areas matters

...social issue, different areas were associated with different aspects of poverty.To understand how attitudes about deprived areas and the people who live there are developed and reproduced, we need to look at the language used to talk about different places. In particular, we can take a look at Representations of Poverty and Place in the mass media. This could involve...
Drugs and the law: Legal highs
Society, Politics & Law

Drugs and the law: Legal highs

...social and violent behaviour, particularly amongst the prison population, and research has indicated that there has been a significant negative impact on the homeless community. This has led the government to take action to criminalise the possession and supply of legal highs last year, but there remains an interesting debate regarding whether prohibition is the best way...
Learning How To Learn: Words from the Wise
Education & Development

Learning How To Learn: Words from the Wise

...works is The Golden Notebook, first published in 1962. [Portrait image of the British writer, Doris Lessing, black and white] British writer, Doris Lessing “That is what learning is. You suddenly understand something you've understood all your life, but in a new way.” There was, and still is among some people, a common misconception that learners are like blank slates...
A matter of life and death: inequalities in healthcare for Black, Asian and minority ethnic communities
Health, Sports & Psychology

A matter of life and death: inequalities in healthcare for Black, Asian and minority ethnic communities

...social, economic, political and environmental explanations for the disproportionate disparities experienced by workers in Black, Asian and minority ethnic communities. Not only were these workers more likely to be front line workers and therefore at greater risk of acquiring COVID-19 but, because of the structural racism that exists in organisations like the National...
The rural dimension – rundale in the West of Ireland
OpenLearn Ireland

The rural dimension – rundale in the West of Ireland

...social, the environmental and the spatial. A combination of factors within society and environment such as soils and climate, cultural forms, local social organisation and the wider economic and political context, both national and international, are drawn together in change over time. The present rural landscape in the West of Ireland is a mosaic of small fields, small...
The Bottom Line Expert Opinion: Financial Engineering
Money & Business

The Bottom Line Expert Opinion: Financial Engineering

...social impact that extends beyond businesses and the market. Established assumptions about the economy and the free market would dramatically challenged. Is it safe or positive to have so much of the economy revolve around the financial sector? These events call for a potential transformation of how economics and business studies are taught. Atul Shah discusses these...