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Women in sport: stories from grassroots cricket
Health, Sports & Psychology

Women in sport: stories from grassroots cricket

...adult game, too few existing women’s teams mean not enough competitions/leagues leading to only a handful of fixtures taking place, often being played by teams that are large distances apart. It is not a particularly attractive prospect for prospective players. Diversifying the decision makers Perhaps one of the reasons why women’s grassroots cricket faces so many...
20 things you never knew about OpenLearn
Education & Development

20 things you never knew about OpenLearn

...Adults, Clive Anderson narrated The History of English in Ten Minutes, and Don Warrington brought the Iliad and Odyssey to life. Not bad company for a free learning website. 20. We've covered some… eclectic subjects In 20 years of OpenLearn, we've explored sperm, Shakespeare, chocolate, death, Jediism, time travel and naked Roman emperors – and that's barely...
Why don't statistics reveal when sports matches have been fixed?
Science, Maths & Technology

Why don't statistics reveal when sports matches have been fixed?

...caring professions. There can usually be an appeal to past data for an estimate of the probability of the unexpected adverse outcome were it true that no wrongdoing had taken place. In tennis most players have played most other players many times, and in a medical context hospitals keep meticulous records of serious incidents. Both these sources can provide perfectly...
No Pause for Thought? Brexit, Bias and Political Manipulation
Health, Sports & Psychology

No Pause for Thought? Brexit, Bias and Political Manipulation

...care work). And Britain hasn’t even left yet. Focusing on the people that will be doing the negotiating, there have been suggestions that the UK negotiating team and European negotiating team have widely different understandings of what Brexit will mean, and how the negotiations should be conducted. Reports of a first meeting have not been optimistic, and a hard Brexit...
Rod Stewart was a 1970s ally
History & The Arts

Rod Stewart was a 1970s ally

...cares?’” Above all, “The Killing of Georgie” carries what Stewart has called “a pro-gay message,” as he put it in his 2012 autobiography, Rod. In the “so-called liberated days” of the mid-1970s, people were attacked and killed in the street because of their sexual orientation, as the song relates. Forty years later, in what we might like to think of as our...
Researching cycling in the US & the UK
Society, Politics & Law

Researching cycling in the US & the UK

...care about public space because the accommodation is so expensive, you are not going to sit inside and you can’t afford to go to a pub all evening. Interviewer: How do you see this Overseas Institutional Visit contributing to your work in the future? Peter Wood: I think one of the most amazing things about cycling research, both in Britain and America, is that academics...
The Olympic torch: the truth
History & The Arts

The Olympic torch: the truth

...care by the Nazi leadership to project the image of the Third Reich as a modern, rich and influential state. The torch relay, fabricated specifically for the occasion, was part of this carefully orchestrated Nazi propaganda stunt. It was German classical scholar and sports administrator Carl Diem who came up with the theatrics of the torch relay. Where did he get the idea...
‘It’s Just Banter’: Women and Sexual Harassment in the Hospitality Industry
Society, Politics & Law

‘It’s Just Banter’: Women and Sexual Harassment in the Hospitality Industry

...careful about the times they chose to work, choosing afternoon shifts when it was quieter to avoid unwelcome male attention. Working in bars at that time was too often distressing and dangerous for me. As a young student, I worked there out of necessity, rather than choice. The everyday sexism and sexual assault I was subjected to has never completely left me. It is never...