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Exploring Sports
Society, Politics & Law

Exploring Sports

...is in a weight categorised sport An interview with a paraglider David Snowdon has been paragliding for 15 years, 13 of those have been at an international level. David is a self-taught pilot An interview with a marathon runner Serious amateur marathon runner Mick Curry runs in excess of 100miles a week and is motivated by his family and chronically disabled son Philip...
Growing up with Disability
Health, Sports & Psychology

Growing up with Disability

...families. This material forms part of The Open University course KE312 Working together for children... Growing up with Disability A short introduction to this album. The Voluntary Organisation PLUS An introduction to the voluntary organisation PLUS. Circles of Support Forming volunteer groups of peers to help create natural friendship bonds with a focused child. Local...
Introduction to UK immigration law and becoming an immigration adviser
Society, Politics & Law

Introduction to UK immigration law and becoming an immigration adviser

...family permit under the EU Settlement Scheme, or restrict rights to enter or leave the UK under those permits refuse or revoke a permit, or deport a frontline worker refuse or revoke leave, or deport an S2 healthcare visitor. If there is no right to appeal, it may be possible to seek an Administrative Review by the Home Office. Appeals can be made by individuals based...
Managing complexity: a systems approach
Society, Politics & Law

Managing complexity: a systems approach

...history of interacting with external stimuli that generate new ways of interacting with further stimuli and the internal structure of my brain changes as a result. The computer's ways of dealing with data are not the result of its own self-production. The way the computer works remains the same, whether it is processing pictures from the National Gallery or whether it is...
Was British business always planning for Brexit?
Money & Business

Was British business always planning for Brexit?

...History, as well as the images we associate with it, should not be underestimated here. While a British business tycoon will think of Ronald Kipling’s India when a deal in the subcontinent is proposed, pictures of Stalin’s communist regime will cloud their thinking over a similar proposal stemming from Hungary. A yet unanswered question is whether the distinct path...
There’s only one woman on the UK Brexit negotiating team – here’s why that matters
Society, Politics & Law

There’s only one woman on the UK Brexit negotiating team – here’s why that matters

...history, and make it impossible to stay in her partners’ household. The rules also make it harder for women to establish a right to reside if they combine domestic care for the elderly or disabled or being a single parent with part time work. Women and children are already overlooked, and are at significant risk of falling through the cracks in the new regime. Trade is...
Under the covers: The emerging critical sleep studies
History & The Arts

Under the covers: The emerging critical sleep studies

...history shows that, whereas literature’s preoccupation with sleep is certainly not new, the humanities have been slow to respond to it. Medical sleep research over the past sixty years has measured our sleep and sleeping habits in an attempt to decipher “the nature of sleep.” However, the inherent paradox of sleep science, as Greaney demonstrates, is that sleep...
A quiet man, hounded: One person's experience of the UK's anti-homosexuality laws
History & The Arts

A quiet man, hounded: One person's experience of the UK's anti-homosexuality laws

...history month in February 2017, the government announced it would pardon 49,000 men of sexual offences for homosexuality. While this is an important nod to justice, it is also a reminder of everyday injustices suffered by LGBT people in Britain when it was still a crime to be gay. Nearly 50 years ago, in July 1967, the government voted to partly decriminalise...