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Early widowhood: navigating a way through grief
Health, Sports & Psychology

Early widowhood: navigating a way through grief

...article, Hazel Carter, who cared for her husband through motor neurone disease to the end of his life, describes her experience of grief and becoming a widow and about her thought-provoking insight into her journey from care giver to a self-published author...Find out about The Open University's Health and Social Care courses and qualifications. Becoming a widow When my...
Water: Managing the 1% in a climate changing world
Nature & Environment

Water: Managing the 1% in a climate changing world

...article explores how climate change is challenging our ways of thinking about and managing this scarce resource...Water, water, every where, And all the boards did shrink; Water, water, every where, Nor any drop to drink. The Rhyme of the Ancient Mariner (1834 text), Samuel Taylor Coleridge [All of Earth's water in a single sphere] The World's water in 3 spheres As the...
Have vanishing debt costs created a magic money tree?
Money & Business

Have vanishing debt costs created a magic money tree?

...Article 50, might endorse the government’s view that the UK will emerge stronger from Brexit. Against this, bond demand may have been bolstered by more negative, less stable factors. Yields have been held down by the Bank of England’s “quantitative easing” (QE): a programme of buying up old government debt so that more investors compete for new issues. Launched in...
An uncomfortable truth: How Britain has criminalised rough sleepers
Society, Politics & Law

An uncomfortable truth: How Britain has criminalised rough sleepers

...are restricting homeless people’s freedom, and turning everyday activities into punishable offences. Yet survival defines the daily lives of homeless people, and in the face of oppression they will find new ways to expose the violence and prejudice they encounter in the every day. This article was originally published on The Conversation. Read the original article....
Sue Edwards: a life dedicated to flora and sustainable development in Ethiopia
Nature & Environment

Sue Edwards: a life dedicated to flora and sustainable development in Ethiopia

...article...[Image of Sue Edwards]International days of observance are occasions to educate the general public on issues of concern, to mobilise political will and resources to address global problems, and to celebrate and reinforce achievements of humanity. Many days of observance are championed by national, regional and international organisations such as the UN. World...
The drive to improve patient safety in the NHS in England
Health, Sports & Psychology

The drive to improve patient safety in the NHS in England

...et al. (2012) have also explored what they describe as ‘latent failures’ that underpin medication errors. Their approach recognises that mistakes are usually made at the front line, and in the case of medicine errors it is likely to be nurses who are at the front line. They also acknowledge that organisations have inherent weaknesses which can be attributed to:...
Which Poverty and Place: Why how we label different areas matters
Languages

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

...articles published in the Guardian and the Daily Mail between 2010 and 2015. In order to locate which areas each newspaper associated with poverty and deprivation, we used corpus linguistics software and geographical information systems to extract all the instances where a place name appeared within ten words of a set of terms relating to poverty, such as inequality,...
Irish Women’s Poetry: the Next Generation
OpenLearn Ireland

Irish Women’s Poetry: the Next Generation

...article will focus on three representative figures whose work shares similar preoccupations with poets such as Eavan Boland and Sinéad Morrissey in their focus on the woman’s experience within a personal, historical, mythological and political context. Victoria Kennefick Victoria Kennefick is from Cork. Her first collection, Eat or We Both Starve, was published in 2021...