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How gender equality can help fix the construction industry
Society, Politics & Law

How gender equality can help fix the construction industry

...children. While the data is simply unavailable for women in the building trades, recent Department for Education figures suggests an alternative reason. Just five years after graduation, long before starting a family, women engineers and architects are already being paid less than their male counterparts. The lack of career progression that this suggests increases with...
A new union flag
History & The Arts

A new union flag

...research organizations producing stories, interactive projects and workshops. Visit her website here. Gil Mualem-Doron is an artist, researcher and a community facilitator. He is the founder of SEAS – Socially Engaged Art Salon in Brighton. He works in various media including photography, print, painting and mix media installations. Most of his work is socially and...
Returning to STEM Badge icon
Science, Maths & Technology

Returning to STEM

...researching a topic or finding information online. There are also several points in the course where you will need to either reflect on your experience or write other notes. It’s up to you how you keep your notes; for example, online or using a notebook of some sort. Every week ends with an interactive quizzes, of which Weeks 4 and 8 will provide you with an opportunity...
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Heritage, whose heritage?
History & The Arts

Heritage, whose heritage?

...Centre at Stonehenge has been a battleground, exposing conflicting interests, and revealing the challenges that can lie behind the preservation of heritage sites. This album explores how different values and perceptions of heritage affect how the past is safeguarded, examining the British preoccupation with the built environment. Heritage can impart a sense of national...
The Four Generations of Computers
Science, Maths & Technology

The Four Generations of Computers

...Centre for Computing History in Haverhill, we see an array of fascinating machines and learn about them along the way. This material forms part of The Open University course TU100 My digital life... Colossus: The World's First Electronic Computer A look at the Colossus computer at The National Museum of Computing at Bletchley Park. Elliott 803: Second Generation Computers...
Jury Hub Conversation: Lee Curley and Dominic Willmott
Society, Politics & Law

Jury Hub Conversation: Lee Curley and Dominic Willmott

Lee Curley and Dominic Willmott discuss their interests in the field of jury research, and recent developments in this area of study...Find out about The Open University's Law courses. Podcast transcript
The Colour of Success: Can uniform colour impact on team success?
Health, Sports & Psychology

The Colour of Success: Can uniform colour impact on team success?

...Research by Hill and Barton (2005) investigated the link between uniform colour and match outcome in a number of different combat sports (boxing, tae kwon do, Greco-Roman wrestling and freestyle wrestling) at the 2004 Olympics, where competitors were randomly assigned either a blue or red uniform. Interestingly their findings revealed that that for all sports there was a...
The Italian Patient: Health care in Renaissance Italy
History & The Arts

The Italian Patient: Health care in Renaissance Italy

...research by John Henderson overturns this view. He reveals what it was like to be an 'Italian Patient' and shows that there are remarkable similarities to health care provisions today. Katherine Park has shown that at the same time the practice of autopsy was in full swing with the sanction of the Church. In the late medieval period hospitals were built in Florence as...