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How did a Scottish golf club shape how we remember the First World War?
History & The Arts

How did a Scottish golf club shape how we remember the First World War?

...work focused mainly on the relationship between Owen and fellow soldier-poet Siegfried Sassoon, while Barker focused on Sassoon and Craiglockhart psychiatrist William Rivers. Both works are to be commended, but they are essentially fictional accounts. Part of the hospital’s plans to restore traumatised British officers to health was to put these men to work in the...
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How the Good Friday Agreement changed my life...
OpenLearn Ireland

How the Good Friday Agreement changed my life...

...working in the voluntary sector as the Agreement loomed in the mid-nineties, watching political developments with huge interest. When it dawned on a few of us that if the politicians were to secure a deal by Easter 1998, the Talks Chair Senator George Mitchell’s famous deadline before he left for his new-born baby in the USA, then there would be an instant and massive...
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Workshops on gender diversity – helping us move from insults to inclusion.
Health, Sports & Psychology

Workshops on gender diversity – helping us move from insults to inclusion.

...work led by UNESCO in the Asia-Pacific region. This work has included partnerships between academics, schools and UNESCO and these have generated valuable work toward preventing bullying on the basis of gender identity and expression. Transgender young people, and selected community-based organisations that they are a part of, have also been working hard to improve this...
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What is the pension triple lock, and how has it become an election issue?
Money & Business

What is the pension triple lock, and how has it become an election issue?

...working population. The different colours indicate the basis used to increase pensions each year. The chart shows how policy see-saws between protecting pensioner incomes and containing cost. [Chart showing the basic and new State Pension as a percentage of average earnings from 1975 - 2017.] Basic and new State Pension as a percentage of average earnings, 1975 to 2017....
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Introduction to Green Social Prescribing — Mental Health and the Workplace Environment
Health, Sports & Psychology

Introduction to Green Social Prescribing — Mental Health and the Workplace Environment

...Work’ (2021) Of course, we also know that the need to focus on workplace wellbeing lies deeper than simply being a cost-saving exercise. Healthier environments in which workers have a greater sense of purpose and individuals are not only more socially engaged but feel valued and supported. They potentially lead to less stress since communication becomes more open. Union...
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The challenges of ethical trading - perspective of a retailer
Money & Business

The challenges of ethical trading - perspective of a retailer

...working conditions for workers who make the goods they sell. It would be easy for many retailers to rebuff the situation and do nothing - after all isn’t this the problem for local and national governments who are failing in their duty to enact and implement laws to prevent worker exploitation? Retailers are however, aware that consumers are increasingly concerned and...
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Gender, IT and economic growth
Society, Politics & Law

Gender, IT and economic growth

...work, women also leave the industry in larger numbers than men. Yet in India, the IT sector seems to be more gender equitable. Female enrolments in science and engineering education (around 65%) and IT labour force participation (around 30%) are considerably higher in India than in the UK – in fact, they are amongst the highest of the countries studied in an OECD survey...
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How can nature help us meet the climate challenge in towns and cities?
Nature & Environment

How can nature help us meet the climate challenge in towns and cities?

...Working in partnership with nature to bring benefits to people is not new. For thousands of years, residents in tropical countries have planted greenery to provide shade and guard against oppressive heat. Rural farming communities in countries like Japan have for centuries understood that protecting the health of forests, rivers and uplands enables them to return healthy...
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